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- DOTTILYIn a dotty manner.
- DOTTLEA plug or tap of a vessel.
- DOTTYMildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
- DOTYSuffering from rot, or waterlogged
- DOUANEA custom house.
- DOUANIERA French customs officer.
- DOUARA camp or village of tents in a North African country.
- DOUBLEMade up of two matching or complementary elements.
- DOUBLEROne who doubles.
- DOUBLESPEAKAny language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
- DOUBLESPEAKEROne who engages in doublespeak.
- DOUBLETA pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- DOUBLETHINKThe power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct; an instance of doing so.
- DOUBLETONA set containing precisely two elements.
- DOUBLUREAn elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book.
- DOUBLYIn a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.
- DOUBTTo consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.
- DOUBTABLECapable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
- DOUBTEROne who doubts.
- DOUBTFULSubject to, or causing doubt.
- DOUBTINGLYIn a doubting manner.
- DOUCA colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.
- DOUCESweet; nice; pleasant.
- DOUCELYIn a douce manner.
- DOUCETA sweetened dish.
- DOUCEURSweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.
- DOUCHEA jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.
- DOUGHA thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- DOUGHBOYAn American infantryman, especially one from World War I.
- DOUGHFACEA person, especially a politician, who is perceived to be pliable or moldable. In particular, in the antebellum United States, a Northerner who espoused sympathies with the Souther
- DOUGHLIKEResembling dough.
- DOUGHNUTA deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam
- DOUGHNUTLIKEResembling a doughnut.
- DOUGHTPower, strength, ability.
- DOUGHTILYIn a doughty manner.
- DOUGHTYBold; brave, courageous.
- DOUGHYHaving the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as Pale and flabby, Soft and heavy.
- DOULAA trained support person who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.
- DOULEIAIn Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels.
- DOUMThe doum palm.
- DOURStern, harsh and forbidding.
- DOURINEcovering sickness
- DOURLYIn a dour manner.
- DOUSETo plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
- DOUSEROne who, or that which, douses (extinguishes, especially with water).
- DOUTObsolete spelling of doubt.
- DOUTERAn extinguisher for candles.
- DOUXSweet.
- DOVEA pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred species of the family Col
- DOVECOTEA small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
- DOVEKIEA small black and white seabird, of the genus Alle, of the north Atlantic; the little auk.
- DOVELETA baby dove.
- DOVELIKEResembling or characteristic of a dove.
- DOVENpast participle of dive
- DOVERSA pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred species of the family Col
- DOVETAILThe tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail.
- DOVETAILEROne who or that which dovetails.
- DOVINGA pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred species of the family Col
- DOVISHPertaining to a dove; dove-like.
- DOWABLECapable of being endowed.
- DOWAGERA widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
- DOWDA dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
- DOWDYPlain and unfashionable in style or dress.
- DOWELA pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper re
- DOWERThe part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- DOWFDull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.
- DOWIEDull, dreary; melancholy.
- DOWITCHERAny of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.
- DOWLASA coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.
- DOWLEfeathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
- DOWNFrom a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- DOWNBEATThe accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke).
- DOWNBURSTA powerful downward air current, especially one during a thunderstorm, often creating powerful divergent horizontal winds and strong wind shear upon impacting the surface.
- DOWNCASTOf the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
- DOWNCOURTToward one's team's offensive basket
- DOWNERA negative drug trip.
- DOWNFALLA precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- DOWNFORCEAny force (produced by aerodynamics or gravity etc) that acts downwards
- DOWNHAULAny rope used to haul down a sail or spar.
- DOWNLIGHTA light fixture installed in a hollow opening in a ceiling, concentrating the light in a downward direction.
- DOWNLIKEResembling down (soft immature feathers) or some aspect of it.
- DOWNMOSTFurthest down; located at the bottom of a system or structure.
- DOWNPLAYTo de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
- DOWNPOURA heavy fall of rain.
- DOWNRIGHTCompletely, wholly.
- DOWNRIGHTLYclearly; plainly; directly; downright
- DOWNSCALEBeing downmarket, of a lower quality.
- DOWNSHIFTA change of direction or a movement downwards.
- DOWNSHIFTERA person who makes a transition to a less pressured or demanding career or lifestyle
- DOWNSIZETo reduce in size or number.
- DOWNSIZEROne who, or that which, downsizes.
- DOWNSLOPEIn a direction down a slope.
- DOWNSPOUTA vertical pipe or conduit that carries rainwater from the scupper, guttering of a building to a lower roof level, drain, ground or storm water runoff system.
- DOWNSTAGEToward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
- DOWNSTAIRdownstairs
- DOWNSTREAMToward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).
- DOWNSTROKEA downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes.
- DOWNTICKA small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising.
- DOWNTIMETime lost due to the failure of some system or machinery, such as a computer crash or power outage.
- DOWNYHaving down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.