5-letter words containing d
- adpcm — Adaptive Digital Pulse Code Modulation
- adrad — afraid
- adret — a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
- adrip — Dripping.
- adsum — I am present
- adult — An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.
- adunc — hooked; curved inward
- adure — (obsolete) To burn up.
- adust — dried up or darkened by heat; burnt or scorched
- aduwa — a town in N Ethiopia: Emperor Menelik II defeated the Italians here in 1896. Pop: 46 272 (2005 est)
- advew — to look at
- adyta — (in ancient worship) a sacred place that the public was forbidden to enter; an inner shrine.
- adzed — an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
- adzes — Plural form of adze.
- aedes — any mosquito of the genus Aedes (formerly Stegomyia) of tropical and subtropical regions, esp A. aegypti, which transmits yellow fever and dengue
- aedon — a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- afald — single; sole
- agada — the nonlegal or narrative material, as parables, maxims, or anecdotes, in the Talmud and other rabbinical literature, serving either to illustrate the meaning or purpose of the law, custom, or Biblical passage being discussed or to introduce a different, unrelated topic.
- agade — a city on the Euphrates in N Babylonia, the centre of a major empire and civilization (2360–2180 bc)
- agend — Obsolete form of agendum.
- agood — in a serious or earnest manner
- agued — of or relating to suffering from fever
- ahead — Something that is ahead is in front of you. If you look ahead, you look directly in front of you.
- ahind — behind
- ahold — a hold
- aidan — Saint. died 651 ad, Irish missionary in Northumbria, who founded the monastery at Lindisfarne (635). Feast day: Aug 31
- aided — to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
- aider — to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
- aides — nurse's aide.
- aidid — (zoology) Any member of the Aididae.
- aidos — shame
- ailed — to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
- aimed — to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
- aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- akkad — a city on the Euphrates in N Babylonia, the centre of a major empire and civilization (2360–2180 bc)
- aland — to land, on land, ashore
- alcid — any of twenty-two species of oceanic birds of the family Alcidae
- aldan — a river in E Russia in the SE Sakha Republic, rising in the Aldan Mountains and flowing north and west to the Lena River. Length: about 2700 km (1700 miles)
- aldat — (language) A database language, based on extended algebra.
- aldea — a village or a villa in Portugal or a Portuguese colony
- alden — John1599?-1687; Pilgrim settler in Plymouth Colony: character in Longfellow's poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish”
- alder — An alder is a species of tree or shrub that grows especially in cool, damp places and loses its leaves in winter.
- aldes — ALgorithm DEScription
- aldol — a colourless or yellowish oily liquid, miscible with water, used in the manufacture of rubber accelerators, as an organic solvent, in perfume, and as a hypnotic and sedative. Formula: CH3CHOHCH2CHO
- algid — chilly or cold
- alkyd — containing an alkyd resin
- allod — allodium
- almud — a unit of volume in various countries, most notably Spain, where it is roughly equivalent to 4.63 litres
- aloed — containing, or shaded by, aloes
- aloud — When you say something, read, or laugh aloud, you speak or laugh so that other people can hear you.