| daraf | (noun) a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad | - |
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| dare | (noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: daring |
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| (verb) challenge | Synonyms: defy |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: make bold, presume |
| (verb) to be courageous enough to try or do something | - |
| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| daring | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) radically new or original | Synonyms: avant-garde |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, hardihood, hardiness |
| (noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: dare |
| daringly | (adverb) in an adventurous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an original manner | - |
| dark | (adjective) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | - |
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| (adjective) (used of color) having a dark hue | - |
| (adjective) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | - |
| (adjective) secret | - |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, sinister |
| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| (adjective) not giving performances; closed | - |
| (adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: obscure |
| (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: benighted |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darkly | (adverb) without light | Synonyms: in darkness |
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| (adverb) in a dark glowering menacing manner | - |
| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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| darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| (verb) repair by sewing | - |
| darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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| (noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
| (noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
| (verb) move with sudden speed | - |
| dartboard | (noun) a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts | Synonyms: dart board |
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| darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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| (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
| darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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