| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dauntingly | (adverb) to a degree or in a manner that daunts | - |
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| dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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| dauntlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: fearlessly, intrepidly |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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| davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| (noun) an opening time period | - |
| (verb) become light | - |
| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) appear or develop | - |
| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| day | (noun) a period of opportunity | - |
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| (noun) time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis | Synonyms: 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours |
| (noun) a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance | - |
| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: daylight, daytime |
| (noun) a point or period in time | - |
| (noun) the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working) | - |
| (noun) an era of existence or influence | - |
| (noun) the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day | Synonyms: sidereal day |
| (noun) the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis | - |
| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daycare | (noun) childcare during the day while parents work | Synonyms: day care |
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| daydream | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| dayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: mayfly, shadfly |
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| daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| daylily | (noun) any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day | Synonyms: day lily |
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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| days | (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: years |
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| dayspring | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daystar | (noun) a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky | Synonyms: Lucifer, morning star, Phosphorus |
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| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| daze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: fog, haze |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: shock, stupor |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, stun |
| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, dazzle |
| dazed | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: stunned, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| dazedly | (adverb) in a daze; in a dazed manner | Synonyms: torpidly |
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| dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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| (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
| dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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| (adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| dazzlingly | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder | - |
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