English Words: D

26,416 words · Page 1 of 529

dcharacter

The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

d4noun

A die with four sides.

d8noun

date.

danoun

Father.

Daanname

A district of Taipei, Taiwan.

dabverb

To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

dabbedverb

simple past and past participle of dab

dabbingverb

present participle and gerund of dab

dabbleverb

To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.

dabblingnoun

An act in which something is dabbled in

Dabneyname

A surname from Norman.

dabsnoun

plural of dab

DACnoun

Acronym of digital-to-analog converter.

DACAname

Acronym of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, from the U.S. presidential executive order "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals".

Daccaname

Archaic spelling of Dhaka.

dacenoun

A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.

Daceyname

A surname from Irish.

dachanoun

A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

dachshundnoun

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

Dacianame

An ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them.

Dacrename

A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4526).

dacronnoun

A polymer, polyethylene terephthalate PET, as used for making thread and cloth.

dadnoun

A father, a male parent.

dadanoun

Father, dad.

daddiesnoun

plural of daddy

daddynoun

Father.

Dadename

A surname from Irish.

dadonoun

The section of a pedestal above the base.

dadsnoun

plural of dad

DAEphrase

Initialism of does anyone/anybody else...?.

Daedalusname

Greek mythological figure who crafted the waxen wings of Icarus.

Daeguname

A city in South Korea.

Daejeonname

A metropolitan city of South Korea.

daemonnoun

A minor deity or divinity.

Daenerysname

A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage.

Daeshname

Synonym of ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State

DAFname

Acronym of Dictionnaire de l’Académie française.

daffodilnoun

A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.

daffyadj

Somewhat mad or eccentric.

daftadj

Foolish, silly, stupid.

dafuqphrase

The fuck, what the fuck.

dagnoun

A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.

Daganname

A surname from Hebrew.

Dagenhamname

A suburban town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ4984).

Dagestanname

A republic and federal subject of Russia, located in the Caucasus region. Capital: Makhachkala.

daggernoun

A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

dagmarnoun

One of the bullet-shaped protrusions on the bumpers of various 1950s cars, especially Cadillacs.

dagonoun

A crewman who speaks Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.

Dagonname

The main god of the Phoenicians. Although at one time believed to be represented as half man and half fish, modern scholarship recognizes that the latter was the apkallu, while Dagan/Dagon was a grain god.

daguerreotypenoun

An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter D contains 26,416 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 529 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "D" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.