5-letter words containing d, o
- colid — (zoology) Any member of the Colidae.
- comdg — commanding
- comdr — Commander
- comdt — Commandant
- compd — compound
- conad — Continental Air Defense Command.
- conde — Prince de (prɛ̃s də), title of Louis II de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien, called the Great Condé. 1621–86, French general, who led Louis XIV's armies against the Fronde (1649) but joined the Fronde in a new revolt (1650–52). He later fought for both France and Spain
- condo — Condo means the same as condominium.
- coned — Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- contd — continued
- cooed — to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound characteristic of doves.
- coped — to struggle or deal, especially on fairly even terms or with some degree of success (usually followed by with): I will try to cope with his rudeness.
- cords — trousers, esp jeans, made of corduroy
- cordy — Of, or like, cord; having cords or cord-like parts.
- cored — the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds.
- coted — to pass by; outstrip; surpass.
- coudé — relating to the construction of a reflecting telescope
- could — You use could to indicate that someone had the ability to do something. You use could not or couldn't to say that someone was unable to do something.
- coved — a small indentation or recess in the shoreline of a sea, lake, or river.
- cowed — intimidated; frightened
- coxed — coxswain.
- coyed — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- cozed — to converse in a friendly way; chat.
- credo — A credo is a set of beliefs, principles, or opinions that strongly influence the way a person lives or works.
- croud — Obsolete form of crowd.
- crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- cudjo — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- d out — (in sport) to prevent an opponent from attacking by using successful defence techniques
- d'you — D'you is a shortened form of 'do you' or 'did you', used in spoken English.
- dacko — David, 1930–2003, African statesman: president of the Central African Republic 1960–66, 1979–81.
- dagon — a god worshipped by the Philistines, represented as half man and half fish
- dagos — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.
- damão — a district in W India, part of the union territory of Daman and Diu: formerly a Portuguese colony, then (1961–87) part of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu.
- dambo — A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa.
- damon — Matt. born 1970, US film actor and screenwriter. His films include Good Will Hunting (1997, which he co-wrote), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and, from 2002, the Bourne series
- danio — any brightly coloured tropical freshwater cyprinid fish of the genus Danio and related genera: popular aquarium fishes
- dario — Rubén (ruˈβen), real name Félix Rubén Garcia Sarmiento. 1867–1916, Nicaraguan poet whose poetry includes Prosas Profanas (1896)
- davao — a port in the S Philippines, in SE Mindanao. Pop: 1 326 000 (2005 est)
- davos — a mountain resort in Switzerland: winter sports, site of the Parsenn ski run. Pop: 11 417 (2000). Height: about 1560 m (5118 ft)
- decko — a peek or a glance
- decon — Abbreviation of decontamination.
- decor — The decor of a house or room is its style of furnishing and decoration.
- decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
- defoe — Daniel. ?1660–1731, English novelist, journalist, spymaster, and pamphleteer, noted particularly for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). His other novels include Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
- defog — to clear (something) of fog or vapour
- dekko — a look; glance; view (esp in the phrase take a dekko (at))
- delos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades: a commercial centre in ancient times; the legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Area: about 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
- demo- — indicating people or population
- demob — Someone's demob is their release from the armed forces.
- demoi — (political science) Plural form of demos The common populaces of several states.