| duncical | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| duncish | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dune | (noun) a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans | Synonyms: sand dune |
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| dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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| (verb) defecate; used of animals | - |
| (verb) fertilize or dress with dung | - |
| dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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| dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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| (noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
| dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
| dunk | (noun) a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket | Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot |
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| (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, plunge, souse |
| (verb) make a dunk shot, in basketball | - |
| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| dunlin | (noun) small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions | Synonyms: Erolia alpina, red-backed sandpiper |
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| dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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| duo | (noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duet, duette |
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| (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, twosome |
| (noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duet, duette |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| duodecimal | (adjective) based on twelve | - |
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| (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part |
| duodenal | (adjective) in or relating to the duodenum | - |
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| duodenum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum | - |
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| duodiode | (noun) an electron tube having two diodes in the same envelope, with either a common cathode or separate cathodes. | - |
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| duologue | (noun) a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors | - |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, dialogue |
| duomo | (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: cathedral |
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| dupe | (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: victim |
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| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| dupery | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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| duple | (adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: double, dual |
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| duplex | (adjective) allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously | - |
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| (adjective) (used technically of a device or process) having two parts | - |
| (noun) an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase | Synonyms: duplex apartment |
| (noun) a house with two units sharing a common wall | Synonyms: duplex house, semidetached house |
| (verb) change into a duplex | - |
| duplicability | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: reproducibility |
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| duplicable | (adjective) capable of being duplicated | Synonyms: duplicatable |
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| duplicatable | (adjective) capable of being duplicated | Synonyms: duplicable |
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| duplicate | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: matching, twin, twinned |
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| (adjective) identically copied from an original | - |
| (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplication |
| (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: extra |
| (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: double |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) make a duplicate or duplicates of | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: parallel, twin |
| duplication | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: gemination |
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| (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplicate |
| duplicator | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: copier |
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| duplicitous | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
| dura | (noun) the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: dura mater |
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| durability | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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| durable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable |
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| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: lasting, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) capable of withstanding wear and tear and decay | Synonyms: long-wearing |
| durables | (noun) consumer goods that are not destroyed by use | Synonyms: consumer durables, durable goods |
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| dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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| duramen | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: heartwood |
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| durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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| duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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| duress | (noun) compulsory force or threat | - |
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| durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
| durion | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian, durian tree, Durio zibethinus |
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| durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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| durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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| durra | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| durum | (noun) wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America | Synonyms: durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum |
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| dusk | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| (verb) become dusk | - |
| duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
| dusky | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, swart, swarthy |
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| (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: twilight, twilit |
| dust | (noun) fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, junk, rubble |
| (noun) free microscopic particles of solid material | - |
| (verb) remove the dust from | - |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape | - |
| (verb) cover with a light dusting of a substance | - |
| dustbin | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, ashcan, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can, wastebin |
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| dustcart | (noun) a truck for collecting domestic refuse | Synonyms: garbage truck |
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| dustcloth | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: duster, dustrag |
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| duster | (noun) a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter | - |
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| (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, gabardine, gaberdine, smock |
| (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, dustrag |
| (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, sandstorm, sirocco |
| dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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| dustlike | (adjective) as fine and powdery as dust | - |
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| dustman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector |
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| dustmop | (noun) a dry swab for dusting floors | Synonyms: dry mop, dust mop |
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| dustpan | (noun) a short-handled receptacle into which dust can be swept | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpanful |
| dustpanful | (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpan |
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| dustrag | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, duster |
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| dustup | (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle |
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| dusty | (adjective) covered with a layer of dust | Synonyms: dust-covered |
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| (adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: cold, moth-eaten, stale |
| duteous | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: dutiful |
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| dutiable | (adjective) subject to import tax | - |
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| dutiful | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: duteous |
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| dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
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| dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
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| duty | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: obligation, responsibility |
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| (noun) work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons | - |
| (noun) a government tax on imports or exports | Synonyms: tariff |
| duvet | (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, eiderdown |
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