English words: dullaghan to dumree

300 English words, part 110 of 118 of the words starting with D, A to Z. 27 have a page of their own.

English words dullaghan to dumree

dullaghan noun /ˈduː.ləˌhɑːn/: Alternative form of dullahan.
dullahan noun /ˈduː.ləˌhɑːn/: A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or...
dullard noun /ˈdʌlɚd/: A stupid person; a fool.
dullardism noun: Synonym of dullardry.
dullardly adjective: Dull, stupid.
dullardness noun: The quality of being a dullard.
dullardry noun: The behaviour or beliefs of a dullard; ignorance.
dullbrained adjective: Unintelligent.
dulled adjective, verb /dʌld/: Made dull.
dullen verb /ˈdʌlən/: To make dull or duller; to dull.
duller adjective, noun: One who, or that which, dulls.
dullery noun: dullness, stupidity
dullhead noun: A blockhead; a dolt.
dullification noun: The process of making something dull or uninteresting.
dullify verb: To make dull or boring.
dulling noun, verb /ˈdʌlɪŋ/: The process of making or becoming dull.
dullish adjective: Somewhat dull; dull to a degree.
dullishly adverb: In a dullish manner.
dullity noun: Dullness.
dullness noun /ˈdʌl.nəs/: The quality of being slow of understanding things.
dullsome adjective: Characterised or marked by dullness.
dullsville noun: A fictional or generic location that is boring or dull.
dullwit noun: A stupid person.
dullwitted adjective: Alternative spelling of dull-witted.
dullwittedness noun: The quality of being dull-witted.
dully adjective, adverb: In a dull manner; without liveliness; without lustre.
dulocracy noun: A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves.
dulofibrate noun: An antilipidemic drug.
Dulong proper noun: A surname from French.
dulosis noun: The process by which parasitic ants steal pupae from the nests of other ants and raise them in their own nest, so that they become a contributing part of...
dulotic adjective: Of or relating to dulosis.
duloxetine noun /duːˈlɑk.səˌtiːn/: A drug that functions as an SNRI and is administered orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₈H₁₉NOS·HCl especially to treat depression, anxiety, and...
duloxetine hydrochloride noun: A drug used to treat depression and pain caused by diabetes.
dulozafone noun: An anticonvulsant drug.
dulse noun /dʌls/: A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
Duluth proper noun /dəˈluːθ/: A city, the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Duluth pack noun: A traditional piece of luggage used in canoe travel, particularly in the Boundary Waters region of northern Minnesota and Ontario. A specialized type of...
Duluthian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Duluth.
Dulux verb: To paint or daub with Dulux paint.
Dulux dog noun: An Old English Sheepdog.
Dulverton proper noun: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS9127).
Dulwich proper noun /ˈdʌlɪt͡ʃ/: A suburban area of Greater London in the borough of Southwark and borough of Lambeth.
Dulwichian noun /dʌlˈwɪt͡ʃiən/: A pupil at Dulwich College in southeast London, England.
dulwilly noun: The ringed plover.
dulxanthone noun: Any of a group of derivatives of xanthone that have some anticancer properties
duly adverb /ˈdʒuːli/: In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; suitably; properly.
duly noted phrase: Expressing that something has been properly acknowledged or recorded.
dulzaina noun: A Spanish double reed musical instrument in the oboe family.
dulzian noun: Alternative form of dulcian.
dum adjective, interjection /dʌm/: cooked with steam
dum dum noun: A soft point or hollow point bullet, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more serious damage.
dum dum bullet noun: Hollow-point or soft-point bullet designed to expand on impact.
Dum Dum fever noun: Synonym of visceral leishmaniasis.
dum palm noun: Alternative spelling of doum palm.
duma noun /ˈdumə/: A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national...
Dumaguete proper noun /dʊ.mɐˈɡɛ.tɛ/: A city, the provincial capital of Negros Oriental, Central Visayas, Philippines.
Dumai proper noun: A city in Riau, Indonesia.
Dumais proper noun: A surname from French.
dumaist noun: A member of a duma (Russian legislative assembly).
Duman proper noun: A surname.
Dumaresq noun: A mechanical calculator used to gauge the speed of missiles and enemy ships.
Dumasian adjective: Of or pertaining to the French writer Alexandre Dumas.
dumb adjective, adverb, noun, verb /dʌm/: Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
dumb ague noun: An intermittent malarial fever whose paroxysms skip the stage characterized by symptomatic chills.
dumb as a bag of hammers adjective: Remarkably stupid.
dumb as a box of rocks adjective: Very stupid.
dumb as a brick adjective: Synonym of thick as a brick.
dumb as a doorknob adjective: Very stupid.
dumb as a fish adjective: Utterly mute; never speaking.
dumb as a haddock adjective: Utterly mute; never speaking.
dumb as a post adjective: Utterly mute; lacking the ability to speak.
dumb as a rock adjective: Very stupid; dumb as a post.
dumb as a sack of bricks adjective: Very stupid.
dumb as a stump adjective: Extremely stupid.
dumb as an ox adjective: Stupid.
dumb as dirt adjective: Extremely stupid.
dumb as nails adjective: Very dumb (stupid).
dumb as rocks adjective: Alternative form of dumb as a rock.
dumb barge noun: A barge without mast, sails, or mechanical propulsion, whether propelled by oars and poles, by the tide, or in tow of a tug.
dumb-bell noun: Alternative form of dumbbell.
dumb blond noun: Alternative spelling of dumb blonde.
dumb blonde noun: A blonde woman who fits the stereotype of being attractive but unintelligent.
dumb bomb noun: An airdropped bomb without any guidance system to control it after launch.
dumb bunny noun: A stupid person.
dumb cake noun: A cake made in silence by girls on St Mark's Eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.
dumb cancel noun: Synonym of mute cancel.
dumb cane noun: Alternative form of dumbcane (Dieffenbachia seguine)
dumb chamber noun: A dead-end chamber, a chamber with no apparent further outlets.
dumb charade noun: Synonym of charade (“a single round of the game charades”).
dumb charades noun: Synonym of charades.
dumb chill noun: Synonym of dumb ague (“An intermittent malarial fever whose paroxysms skip the stage characterized by symptomatic chills”).
dumb chum noun: A pet (animal companion).
dumb crambo noun: A guessing game, similar to charades, in which players act out, or silently pantomime, words that rhyme with a clue word. The objective is to guess a...
dumb down verb: To convey some subject matter in simple terms, avoiding technical or academic language, especially in a way that is considered condescending.
dumb dumb noun: Alternative form of dumdum (“An ignorant person; an idiot”).
dumb friend noun: A pet (animal companion).
dumb gulper shark noun: Centrophorus harrissoni, a rare and endangered deepwater shark, typically growing to about 43 in (110 cm) long, found along the east coast of Australia and...
dumb hard adverb: Extremely hard (in various senses).
dumb hole noun: A phenomenon in which phonons (sound perturbations) are unable to escape from a fluid that is flowing more quickly than the local speed of sound.
dumb insolence noun: The offence of refusing to answer the questions of an officer.
dumb like a fox adjective: Very stupid or foolish.
dumb luck noun: pure chance; luck
dumb money noun: Individual, noninstitutional investors considered as a group; by extension, the money invested by such people.
dumb network noun: Synonym of dumb pipe.
dumb out verb: To go crazy on something or someone.
dumb peal noun: A muffled peal of bells.
dumb phone noun: Alternative form of dumbphone.
dumb piano noun: A digitorium.
dumb pipe noun: In the context of mobile network operators, a simple network that, with a high enough bandwidth to transfer bytes between a customer's device and the...
dumb quotes noun: straight quotes
dumb shark noun: Synonym of dumb gulper shark.
dumb show noun: A performance during which the players do not speak; mime.
dumb spinet noun: clavichord
dumb tax noun: The national lottery.
dumb terminal noun: A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no processing capability,...
dumb TV noun: A television that is not a smart TV.
dumb waiter noun: Alternative spelling of dumbwaiter.
dumb well noun: Synonym of dry well.
dumb zone noun: The portion of a lengthy LLM conversation where quality degrades as the limit of the context window is reached.
dumba noun: The fat-tailed sheep.
dumbacrat noun: Alternative form of dumbocrat.
dumbahh noun: dumbass.
Dumbarton proper noun /dʌmˈbɑː.tən/: A town in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland.
dumbbell noun /ˈdʌm.bɛl/: A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.
dumbbell curve noun: Any of a family of closed curves having two lobes; they satisfy the general equation y² = α²(x⁴ - x⁶).
dumbcane noun: A tropical plant of the genus Dieffenbachia.
dumbcow verb: To browbeat; to intimidate or cow.
dumbdom noun: The quality of being dumb or stupid; stupidity.
dumbdumb noun: Alternative form of dumdum (“An ignorant person; an idiot”).
dumbec noun: Alternative form of dumbek.
dumbed adjective, verb: That has been made dumb (speechless).
dumbed down adjective, verb: Made condescendingly simple.
dumbeg noun: Alternative form of dumbek.
dumbek noun: A Middle Eastern goblet drum.
DUMBELS noun: An acronym used to remember the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome: ("diaphoresis/diarrhea, urination, miosis,...
dumben verb: To make dumb.
dumber than a bag of hammers adjective: Alternative form of dumb as a bag of hammers.
dumber than a box of rocks adjective: Very stupid.
dumber than a rock adjective: Extremely stupid.
dumber than a sack of bricks adjective: Synonym of dumb as a sack of bricks.
dumbfound verb /ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd/: To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
dumbfounded adjective, verb: Shocked and speechless.
dumbfoundedly adverb: In a dumbfounded manner.
dumbfoundedness noun: The property of being dumbfounded; amazement.
dumbfounder noun, verb: To dumbfound.
dumbfounderment noun: dumbfoundedness
dumbfounding adjective, verb: Bewildering; astonishing.
dumbfoundingly adverb: In a dumbfounding manner.
dumbfoundment noun: The fact of being dumbfounded or bewildered; astonishment.
dumbhood noun: The state or condition of being dumb (either mute or stupid).
dumbie noun: Obsolete spelling of dummy (“a mute person”).
dumbification noun: The process of dumbifying.
dumbify verb: To make stupid; to dumb down.
dumbish adjective: Somewhat stupid.
dumbitude noun: Lack of sense or intelligence; stupidity.
dumblasted adjective: Alternative form of damblasted.
dumble noun: A shady valley, a dingle; especially one with steep wooded sides and a stream running through it.
dumbledor noun: Alternative spelling of dumbledore.
dumbledore noun /ˈdʌm.bəl.dɔː/: A bumblebee.
Dumbledorean adjective: Alternative form of Dumbledorian.
Dumbledorian adjective: Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series
Dumbleton proper noun: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0136).
dumbling noun: One who is unintelligent, dumb, or stupid; a dummy; idiot.
dumbly adverb /ˈdʌmli/: In a silent way.
dumbnut noun: A stupid person
dumbo ear noun: Alternative letter-case form of Dumbo ear.
dumbo-eared adjective: Having prominent or protruding ears.
dumbo octopus noun: Any of several species of umbrella octopuses of the genus Grimpoteuthis.
dumbocrat noun /ˈdʌm.ə.kɹæt/: Alternative letter-case form of Dumbocrat.
dumboy noun: A Liberian dish made from mashed boiled cassava.
dumbphone noun /ˈdʌm.fəʊn/: A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
dumbshow noun: Alternative spelling of dumb show.
dumbsize verb: To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
dumbstricken adjective: Synonym of dumbstruck.
dumbstruck adjective /ˈdʌmˌstɹʌk/: So shocked as to be unable to speak.
dumbwaiter noun /ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/: A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
dumbwalking noun /ˈdʌmˌwɔː.kɪŋ/: The act of walking while distracted or preoccupied by something else, often looking at a smartphone.
dumby noun: Alternative form of dummy (“stupid person”).
dumdum noun: A soft-nosed or hollow point bullet, or a lead bullet incised on the tip with a cross, which expands on impact to cause a greater than normal wound or...
Dumdum fever noun: Alternative form of Dum Dum fever.
dumetorine noun: An alkaloid from Dioscorea dumetorum with IUPAC name 4-methyl-2-[(1-methylpiperidin-2-yl)methyl]-2,3-dihydropyran-6-one
dumetose adjective: dumous
dumfound verb: Alternative form of dumbfound.
dumfounder verb: Alternative form of dumbfounder.
dumfounderment noun: Alternative form of dumbfounderment.
Dumfries proper noun /dʊmˈfɹiːs: A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Dumfriesshire (OS grid ref NX9776).
Dumfriesshire proper noun: A historical county of Scotland which was abolished in 1975 and absorbed into Dumfries and Galloway Region. Its county town was Dumfries.
dumfungled adjective /ˈdʌm.fʌŋɡəld/: Worn out, or being in a state of exhaustion.
Dumi proper noun: A Kiranti language of Nepal.
Dumitrescu proper noun: A surname from Romanian.
dumka noun: A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine.
Dumm proper noun: A surname.
Dummer proper noun: A surname.
dummerer noun: Someone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging.
Dummett proper noun: A surname
Dummettian adjective: Of or relating to Michael Dummett (1925–2011), British analytic philosopher.
dummie noun: Rare spelling of dummy.
dummify verb: To make (something) into a dummy.
dumminess noun: The quality of being silly or foolish.
dummkopf noun: A stupid person; a dolt, dimwit, or blockhead.
dummy adverb, noun, verb /ˈdʌmi/: A silent person; a person who does not talk.
dummy bid noun: A bid made at an auction, by a dummy bidder acting in collusion with the auctioneer or vendor, designed to deceive genuine bidders into paying more.
dummy board noun: A flat wooden life-size figure painted and shaped in silhouette.
dummy car noun: A railroad car containing its own steam power or locomotive.
dummy foal noun: A foal suffering from neonatal maladjustment syndrome.
dummy foal syndrome noun: Neonatal maladjustment syndrome.
dummy half noun: The player who receives the ball when it is returned into play behind the teammate who was just tackled.
dummy it noun: The pronoun "it" used without any referent, serving only to satisfy rules of syntax.
dummy light noun: Synonym of idiot light (“warning light”).
dummy out verb: To remove (a feature, subplot, item, or character) from a video game.
dummy pronoun noun: A pronoun used to fulfill a syntactic role rather than one with a specific referent. For example, the "it" in "It's raining".
dummy-proof adjective, verb: Incapable of being misused even by the stupidest or most careless of users.
dummy run noun: A trial or practice before the real attempt.
dummy scissors noun: An attacking move by two players resembling a scissors move but where the ball carrier only dummies the pass to his team-mate.
dummy spit noun: The act of overreacting (as an adult) to a situation childishly, in an angry or frustrated manner.
dummy subject noun: In English, a word (such as it or there) used as the subject of a sentence when the real subject is placed after the main verb, or when the subject is...
dummy text noun: A placeholder text used in typesetting.
dummy up verb: To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
dummy variable noun: A binary variable that takes a value of 0 or 1 to indicate which category an individual falls into.
dummy whist noun: A variant of the card game whist, similar to bid whist but played with three players instead of four, and, instead of dealing a kitty, dealing a dummy hand...
dummymander noun, verb: A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.
dummyproof adjective, verb: Alternative form of dummy-proof.
Dumnonian adjective, noun /dʌmˈnəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to Dumnonia.
Dumnonii noun: The Dumnonians.
dumocrat noun: Alternative spelling of dumbocrat
Dumond proper noun: A surname.
Dumont proper noun: A surname from French.
Dumont's blue noun: Synonym of smalt (“a blue pigment”).
dumontiaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Dumontiaceae.
dumontite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, and uranium.
dumortierite noun: A fibrous aluminium boro-silicate mineral that occurs in various colours.
dumortierninoside noun: Any of a group of triterpenoid saponins present in the cactus Isolatocereus dumortieri
dumose adjective: Alternative form of dumous.
dumoside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
dumosity noun: The quality of being dumous or dumose.
Dumoulin proper noun: A surname from French.
dumous adjective: Abounding with bushes and briars.
dump noun, verb /dʌmp/: A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
dump-and-bake adjective: Easily prepared by placing a few ingredients in a container and baking them.
dump and burn noun, verb: A maneuver involving dumping and burning.
dump bin noun: A bin filled with products of a particular type, often at a discount, without any stacking or arrangement.
dump cake noun: A cake similar to a cobbler, made by dumping fruit or other filling into a pan and then dumping cake mix on top.
dump cart noun: Alternative form of dumpcart.
dump core verb: To generate a core dump.
dump dinner noun: A meal that is easily prepared by placing a few ingredients in a container and cooking them.
dump job noun: The act of moving a corpse from the place of death and abandoning it in a deserted area, typically to conceal a murder.
dump months noun: The two periods of the year, often described as January and February and mid-August through September, when new movie releases are either poor-quality,...
dump on verb: To finish a romantic relationship with (someone).
dump out verb: To discard, to throw away, to toss out or eliminate.
dump stat noun: A statistic (of a player character skill or other property, etc.) where a poor value is accepted in order to allow for improved statistics in other areas.
dump store noun: A store which purchases dumped goods in order to re-sell them
dump tackle noun: A legal form of tackling when the player wraps their arms around the ball carrier's thighs and lifts them a short distance in the air before forcibly...
dump truck noun /ˈdʌmpˌtɹʌk/: A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo (e.g., soil, gravel, grain), having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground via...
dumpability noun: The quality of being dumpable.
dumpable adjective: Able to be dumped (in various senses).
dumpage noun: The act of dumping loads, e.g. from carts, especially refuse.
dumpbin noun: A large freestanding box or basket containing loose goods for sale.
dumpcart noun: A cart, often two-wheeled, that can be tilted to empty its contents.
dumpee noun /ˈdʌmpiː/: One who is dumped (rejected romantically).
dumper noun /ˈdʌmpə/: A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites; a dumpcart.
dumper truck noun: A dump truck.
dumpie noun: Alternative form of dumpy (“small bottle of beer”).
dumpily adverb /ˈdʌmpɪli/: In a dumpy manner.
dumpiness noun: The quality of being dumpy
dumping noun, verb /ˈdʌmpɪŋ/: The disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value.
dumping day noun: The first day of lobster fishing season, when the first lobster traps are set, i.e. dumped into the water.
dumping ground noun: A landfill.
dumping syndrome noun: The situation where food, especially sugar, moves too fast from the stomach to the duodenum, typically arising after gastric or esophageal surgery.
dumpish adjective: Stupid, dull.
dumpishly adverb: In a dumpish manner; dejectedly; gloomily.
dumpishness noun: Quality of being dumpish.
dumple verb: To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
dumpling noun /ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/: Specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
dumpling-depot noun: Synonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”).
dumpling squid noun: A bobtail squid
dumplinglike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a dumpling.
dumplingy adjective: Resembling a dumpling, dumpling-like.
dumpoke noun: A dish of boneless stuffed poultry cooked in dough, butter, and spices.
dumpoked adjective: Cooked in the dumpoke style.
dumpsite noun: A dump for garbage, usually a dump that is actively in use; or the location of such a dump
dumpster noun, verb /ˈdʌmpstɚ/: A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.
dumpster bandit noun: Synonym of trash panda (“a raccoon”).
dumpster dive noun, verb: To practice dumpster diving.
dumpster diver noun: Alternative spelling of dumpster diver.
dumpster diving noun, verb /ˈdʌmpstəˈdaɪvɪŋ/: The act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill.
dumpster fire noun /ˈdʌmpstəˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ)/: A chaotic, unpleasant, unmanageable thing, situation, or person; a disaster.
dumpster juice noun: A light rum-based mixed drink.
dumpster panda noun: Synonym of trash panda.
dumpsterful noun: Synonym of skipload.
dumpstering noun: Synonym of dumpster diving.
dumpsterload noun: Synonym of skipload.
dumpstore noun: Alternative form of dump store.
dumptruck noun: Alternative form of dump truck.
dumpty adjective: Alternative form of dumpy.
dumpukht adjective: Alternative form of dumpoked.
dumpy adjective, noun /ˈdʌmpi/: Short and thick; stout or stocky.
dumpy level noun: A level having a short telescope, usually an inverting one, rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane.
dumpy tree frog noun: Australian green tree frog.
dumpyard noun: A junkyard.
dumree noun: Alternative form of dumri.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under D: 35,212 words, in 118 parts.