6-letter words containing d, k
- darker — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- darkey — (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.
- darkie — darky.
- darkle — to grow dark; darken
- darkly — so as to appear dark.
- deakin — Alfred. 1856–1919, Australian statesman. He was a leader of the movement for Australian federation; prime minister of Australia (1903–04; 1905–08; 1909–10)
- debark — to remove the bark from (a tree)
- debeak — to remove part of the beak of poultry to reduce the risk of such habits as feather-picking or cannibalism
- debulk — (transitive, surgery) To remove part of (a malignant tumour).
- debunk — If you debunk a widely held belief, you show that it is false. If you debunk something that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
- decked — having a wooden deck or platform
- deckel — a board, usually of stainless steel, fitted under part of the wire in a Fourdrinier machine for supporting the pulp stack before it is sufficiently formed to support itself on the wire.
- decker — Thomas Dekker
- deckle — a frame used to contain pulp on the mould in the making of handmade paper
- decoke — (informal) decarbonization.
- degunk — (informal, transitive) To remove gunk from.
- dehusk — (transitive) To remove the husk from.
- deking — to deceive (an opponent) by a fake.
- dekker — Thomas. ?1572–?1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer, noted particularly for his comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday (1600) and his satirical pamphlet The Gull's Hornbook (1609)
- dekkos — Plural form of dekko.
- delink — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- demark — to remove all trace of (a person or thing)
- demask — (transitive) To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.
- depack — (transitive,computing) To decompress (data).
- deskew — (transitive, computing) To rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing.
- detick — to remove ticks from (an animal); free of ticks
- dharuk — an Australian aboriginal language, now extinct, spoken in the area of the first European settlement at Port Jackson.
- dhokla — A food, visually similar to cake and compositionally similar to khaman, made from a batter of gram flour (from chickpeas), cooked by steaming and typically eaten in India.
- dholak — A dhol, especially a relatively small one.
- dibbuk — dybbuk
- dicker — If you say that people are dickering about something, you mean that they are arguing or disagreeing about it, often in a way that you think is foolish or unnecessary.
- dickey — a man's detachable, or false, shirt front
- dickie — an article of clothing made to look like the front or collar of a shirt, blouse, vest, etc., worn as a separate piece under another garment, as a jacket or dress. Compare vest (def 2), vestee.
- dickty — high-class or stylish.
- diking — an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river: They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
- dikkop — (South Africa) A bird of the family Burhinidae.
- diktat — a harsh, punitive settlement or decree imposed unilaterally on a defeated nation, political party, etc.
- dinkey — a small locomotive, especially with a switch engine.
- dinkie — an affluent married childless person
- dinkly — neat; tidy
- dinkum — genuine; authentic.
- dirked — Simple past tense and past participle of dirk.
- dirkes — Plural form of dirke.
- disked — Simple past tense and past participle of disk.
- docked — the solid or fleshy part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair.
- docken — something of no value or importance
- docker — a person or thing that docks or cuts short.
- docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- dodkin — a coin of little value
- domagk — Gerhard [ger-hahrt] /ˈgɛr hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1895–1964, German physician: declined 1939 Nobel Prize at the demand of Nazi government.