| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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| diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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| dieting | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: diet |
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| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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| dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| ding | (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, gouge, nick |
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| (noun) a ringing sound | - |
| (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: dingdong, dong |
| dingdong | (adverb) heartily or earnestly | - |
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| (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dong |
| dining | (noun) the act of eating dinner | - |
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| diphthong | (noun) a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another | - |
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| directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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| dirtying | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: soiling, soilure |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| displeasing | (adjective) causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | - |
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| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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| disquieting | (adjective) causing mental discomfort | - |
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| disregarding | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregardless, irrespective, no matter, regardless |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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| (noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| dodging | (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: escape, evasion |
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| (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, scheme |
| dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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| dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
| (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| dong | (noun) the basic unit of money in Vietnam | - |
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| (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dingdong |
| doting | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, fond |
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| doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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| (noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
| doubting | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: questioning, sceptical, skeptical |
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| dousing | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: ducking, immersion, submersion |
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| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| dowsing | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy |
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| doxing | (noun) Releasing someone's personal information on the Web with the intention of causing harassment | - |
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| drafting | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: draftsmanship, drawing |
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| (noun) writing a first version to be filled out and polished later | - |
| (noun) the craft of drawing blueprints | Synonyms: mechanical drawing |
| dragging | (adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | - |
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| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| drawstring | (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, string |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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| (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| drowsing | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsy |
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| drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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| drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| dubbing | (noun) a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
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| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| dugong | (noun) sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate | Synonyms: Dugong dugon |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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