6-letter words containing d, l
- dactyl — a metrical foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short (– ◡ ◡)
- daddle — to walk unsteadily
- daedal — skilful or intricate
- daftly — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- daggle — to soil by trailing through water or mud
- dahlia — A dahlia is a garden flower with a lot of brightly coloured petals.
- dahlin — (archaic, chemistry) inulin.
- daidle — to waddle about
- dakhla — an oasis in S Egypt: source of ocher.
- daktyl — Dactyl.
- dalasi — the standard monetary unit of The Gambia, divided into 100 bututs
- daleth — the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ד), transliterated as d or, when final, dh
- dalian — a city in NE China, at the end of the Liaodong Peninsula: with the adjoining city of Lüshun comprises the port complex of Lüda. Pop: 2 709 000 (2005 est)
- dalila — Delilah (def 1).
- dallan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- dallas — a city in NE Texas, on the Trinity River: scene of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1963). Pop: 1 208 318 (2003 est)
- dalles — a stretch of a river between high rock walls, with rapids and dangerous currents
- dallin — Cyrus Earle, 1861–1944, U.S. sculptor.
- dalton — John. 1766–1844, English chemist and physicist, who formulated the modern form of the atomic theory and the law of partial pressures for gases. He also gave the first accurate description of colour blindness, from which he suffered
- damply — In a damp manner.
- damsel — A damsel is a young, unmarried woman.
- dandle — to move (a young child, etc) up and down (on the knee or in the arms)
- dangle — If something dangles from somewhere or if you dangle it somewhere, it hangs or swings loosely.
- dangly — dangling; hanging down
- daniel — a youth who was taken into the household of Nebuchadnezzar, received guidance and apocalyptic visions from God, and was given divine protection when thrown into the lions' den
- dankly — In a dank manner.
- daplex — ["The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX", D.W. Shipman, ACM Trans Database Sys, 6(1):140-173 (Mar 1981)].
- dapple — to mark or become marked with spots or patches of a different colour; mottle
- dargle — a wooded hollow
- darkle — to grow dark; darken
- darkly — so as to appear dark.
- darlan — Jean Louis Xavier François (ʒɑ̃ lwi ɡzavje frɑ̃swa). 1881–1942, French admiral and member of the Vichy government. He cooperated with the Allies after their invasion of North Africa; assassinated
- darnel — any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, esp L. temulentum, that grow as weeds in grain fields in Europe and Asia
- dartle — to move swiftly and repeatedly
- dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
- dayfly — the adult mayfly
- daylit — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- dazzle — If someone or something dazzles you, you are extremely impressed by their skill, qualities, or beauty.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- deafly — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of deal.
- dealer — A dealer is a person whose business involves buying and selling things.
- dealth — (obsolete) A share dealt out.
- dearly — If you love someone dearly, you love them very much.
- deasil — in the direction of the apparent course of the sun; clockwise
- debile — having no strength, muscle, or power
- debulk — (transitive, surgery) To remove part of (a malignant tumour).
- decals — Plural form of decal.
- decile — one of nine actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into ten groups with equal frequencies: the ninth decile is the value below which 90% of the population lie
- 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.