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- DORMANTInactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- DORMITIONThe process of falling asleep.
- DORMITORYA room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
- DORSALWith respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand. Produced using
- DORSUMThe back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
- DORTERA bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastery.
- DOSSTo avoid work, shirk, etc.
- DOTALPertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting or comprised in dower.
- DOTATIONThe act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.
- DOUBLEMade up of two matching or complementary elements.
- DOUCESweet; nice; pleasant.
- DOWAGERA widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- DOWERThe part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- DOWRYPayment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
- DOYENA commander in charge of ten men.
- DOZENA set of twelve.
- DRACHMA small unit of weight, variously: One sixteenth (1⁄16) of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ʒ). One eighth (1⁄8) of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ʒ). Alternative form o
- DRACHMAThe currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- DRACONEA large bag towed by a powered vessel to transport a fluid cargo, such as a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
- DRAMATICOf or relating to the drama.
- DRAMATICALOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of drama or the theatre.
- DRAWSenses relating to exerting force or pulling. To pull (someone or something) in a particular direction or manner.
- DREGsingular of dregs (“sediment in a liquid”)
- DRESSTo put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- DUALCharacterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
- DUALITYThe quality of containing or comprising two often opposed parts or aspects.
- DUANA division of a poem, especially an epic poem or a Scottish poem; a canto.
- DUBIETYDoubtfulness.
- DUBIOUSArousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
- DUBITABLECapable of being doubted; susceptible of being questioned.
- DUBITANCYDoubt; uncertainty.
- DUBITATIONThe process of doubting or the state of being in doubt; hesitation, uncertainty.
- DUCALOf or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
- DUCATA gold coin minted by various European nations.
- DUCHYA dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess.
- DUCTA pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- DUCTILECapable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
- DUCTULEAny very small duct, typically lactiferous.
- DUENNAA chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman.
- DUFFELA kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
- DUKEThe male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
- DULCETSweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
- DULCETSSweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
- DULCIANAAn organ stop with a sweet-sounding tone.
- DULCIFYTo sweeten the taste of.
- DULCINEAsweetheart, ladylove
- DULCITEThe sugar alcohol dulcitol (galactitol)
- DULCITESThe sugar alcohol dulcitol (galactitol)
- DUPEA person who has been deceived.
- DUPIONA double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
- DUPLEDouble.
- DUPLETA group of two things. A tuplet of two notes played in the time of three. the set of two electrons, with antiparallel spins, in the same orbital
- DUPLEXDouble; made up of two parts. Having two floors. Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments. Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roug
- DUPLICATEBeing the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.
- DUPLICATIONThe act of duplicating.
- DUPLICITYIntentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
- DURABILITYThe ability to last a long time by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.
- DURABLEAble to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
- DURAMENheartwood
- DURAMENSheartwood
- DURATIONAn amount of time or a particular time interval.
- DURATIVEOf or pertaining to duration.
- DURETo last, continue, endure.
- DURESSHarsh treatment.
- DURUMEllipsis of durum wheat.
- DUUMVIROne of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
- DUUMVIRALOf or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
- DUUMVIRATESynonym of diarchy: rule by two people, especially two men.
- DYSLEXIAA learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
- EAGERDesirous; keen to do or obtain something.
- EAGLEAny of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
- EASELAn upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.
- EBRIATEDrunk; intoxicated.
- EBRIETYThe state of intoxication, drunkenness.
- EBULLIENTEnthusiastic; high-spirited.
- EBULLITIONThe act of boiling.
- ECCEan interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold!
- ECHIDNAAny of the small spined monotremes in the family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- ECHINATEprickly; bristly
- ECHINODERMAn animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
- ECLIPTICThe great circle on the celestial sphere that is the mean apparent path of the sun as viewed from the earth.
- ECTOPYAbnormal position of an organ or other body part.
- EDACIOUSHaving an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
- EDACITIESThe state of being edacious; huge capacity for eating; greediness; voracity; rapacity.
- EDACITYThe state of being edacious; huge capacity for eating; greediness; voracity; rapacity.
- EDENTATELacking teeth.
- EDENTULOUSToothless.
- EDIBLECapable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
- EDIFICEA building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
- EDIFYTo build, construct.
- EDITA change to the text of a document.
- EDITIONA written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.
- EDITORA person who edits or makes changes to documents.
- EDITRIXA female editor.
- EDUCABLECapable of being educated.
- EDUCATETo instruct or train.
- EDUCATIONThe process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
- EDUCATORA person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
- EDUCETo direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
- EDUCTThat which is educed.