6-letter words containing d
- abased — (of a charge) lower on an escutcheon than is usual: a bend abased.
- abated — to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
- abbado — Claudio. 1933–2014, Italian conductor; principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1979–88); director of the Vienna State Opera (1986–91), and the Berlin Philharmonic (1989–2001)
- abboud — Ibrahim [ib-rah-heem] /ɪb rɑˈhim/ (Show IPA), 1900–1983, Sudanese army general and statesman: prime minister 1958–64.
- abdabs — a case of extreme anxiety
- abdias — Obadiah
- abduce — to abduct
- abduct — If someone is abducted by another person, he or she is taken away illegally, usually using force.
- abends — Plural form of abend.
- abided — to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
- abider — to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
- abides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide.
- aboard — If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
- aboded — Simple past tense and past participle of abode.
- abodes — Plural form of abode.
- aborad — (anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral).
- abound — If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
- abraid — to awake
- abread — (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Abroad.
- abroad — If you go abroad, you go to a foreign country, usually one which is separated from the country where you live by an ocean or a sea.
- absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- abused — Simple past tense and past participle of abuse.
- abydos — an ancient town in central Egypt: site of many temples and tombs
- acadia — the Atlantic Provinces of Canada
- acarid — any of the small arachnids of the order Acarina (or Acari), which includes the ticks and mites
- accede — If you accede to someone's request, you do what they ask.
- acceed — Obsolete form of accede.
- accend — to set alight, to ignite
- accord — An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
- acedia — spiritual sloth or apathy
- acidic — Acidic substances contain acid.
- acidly — Chemistry. a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.
- acnode — a point whose coordinates satisfy the equation of a curve although it does not lie on the curve; an isolated point. The origin is an acnode of the curve y2 + x2 = x3
- ad hoc — An ad hoc activity or organization is done or formed only because a situation has made it necessary and is not planned in advance.
- ad out — receiver's advantage
- ad rem — to the point; without digression
- ad seg — administrative segregation.
- ad-lib — If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
- ada 83 — (language) The original Ada, as opposed to Ada 95.
- ada 95 — (language) A revision and extension of Ada (Ada 83) begun in 1988 and completed on 1994-12-01 by a team lead by Tucker Taft of Intermetrics. Chris Anderson was the Project Manager. The printed standard was expected to be available around 1995-02-15. Additions include object-orientation (tagged types, abstract types and class-wide types), hierarchical libraries and synchronisation with shared data (protected types) similar to Orca. It lacks multiple inheritance but supports the construction of multiple inheritance type hierarchies through the use of generics and type composition. You can get the standard from the Ada Joint Program Office.
- ada 9x — (language) The working title for Ada 95 before its adoption as an ISO standard.
- adabas — (database) A relational database system by Software AG. While it was initially designed for large IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of Unix including AIX. ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.
- adages — a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb.
- adagio — Adagio written above a piece of music means that it should be played slowly.
- adamas — Admah.
- adamic — pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.
- adamov — Arthur. 1908–70, French dramatist, born in Russia: one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays include Le Professeur Taranne (1953), Le Ping-Pong (1955), and Le Printemps '71 (1960)
- adance — Dancing.
- adapid — (zoology) Any member of the Adapidae.