| airdock | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: hangar, repair shed |
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| boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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| diplodocus | (noun) a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America | - |
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| doc | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doctor, Dr., MD, medico, physician |
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| docent | (noun) a teacher at some universities | - |
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| docile | (adjective) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed | - |
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| (adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: teachable |
| docility | (noun) the trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable | - |
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| dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
| (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
| (noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
| (noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
| (verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
| (verb) come into dock | - |
| (verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
| (verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
| dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
| (noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
| docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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| (noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
| (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list | - |
| (verb) place on the docket for legal action | - |
| dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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| dockside | (noun) the region adjacent to a boat dock | - |
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| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| doctor | (noun) children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office | - |
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| (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, Dr., MD, medico, physician |
| (noun) a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution | Synonyms: Dr. |
| (verb) give medical treatment to | - |
| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor up, sophisticate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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| doctorate | (noun) one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university | Synonyms: doctor's degree |
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| doctorfish | (noun) surgeon fish of the West Indies | Synonyms: Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish |
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| doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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| doctrinally | (adverb) as a matter of doctrine | - |
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| doctrine | (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
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| docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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| document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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| (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
| (noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
| (noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
| (verb) support or supply with references | - |
| (verb) record in detail | - |
| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| documented | (adjective) furnished with or supported by documents | - |
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| (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, authenticated |
| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
| endocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves | - |
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| endocardium | (noun) the membrane that lines the cavities of the heart and forms part of the heart valves | - |
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| endocarp | (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: pit, stone |
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| endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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| endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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| endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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| endocrinal | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrine |
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| endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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| (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: hormone, internal secretion |
| (noun) any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: ductless gland, endocrine gland |
| endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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| endocrinology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions | - |
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| haddock | (noun) important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller | Synonyms: Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried | - |
| idocrase | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: vesuvian, vesuvianite |
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| indocile | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly |
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| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| indoctrination | (noun) teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically | - |
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| iodochlorhydroxyquin | (noun) drug used to treat certain fungal infection (as athlete's foot) | Synonyms: Clioquinol |
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| iodocompound | (noun) a compound containing the covalent iodine radical | - |
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| iridocyclitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and ciliary body of the eye | - |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| neuroendocrine | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous and endocrine systems (especially as they function together) | - |
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| paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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| piddock | (noun) marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells | - |
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| podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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| postdoc | (noun) a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree | Synonyms: post doc |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoctoral |
| postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoc |
| pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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| pseudocyesis | (noun) physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant | Synonyms: false pregnancy |
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| rhodochrosite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese | - |
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| shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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| (noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| synecdoche | (noun) substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | - |
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| synecdochic | (adjective) using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it | Synonyms: synecdochical |
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| synecdochical | (adjective) using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it | Synonyms: synecdochic |
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| undock | (verb) take (a ship) out of a dock | - |
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| (verb) move out of a dock | - |
| undocumented | (adjective) lacking necessary documents (as for e.g. permission to live or work in a country) | - |
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