6-letter words containing da
- 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
- darned — (intensifier)
- darnel — any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, esp L. temulentum, that grow as weeds in grain fields in Europe and Asia
- darner — a person or thing that darns.
- darren — a male given name.
- darrow — Clarence (Seward)1857-1938; U.S. lawyer
- darted — a small, slender missile that is pointed at one end and usually feathered at the other and is propelled by hand, as in the game of darts, or by a blowgun when used as a weapon.
- darter — any aquatic bird of the genus Anhinga and family Anhingidae, of tropical and subtropical inland waters, having a long slender neck and bill: order Pelecaniformes (pelicans, cormorants, etc)
- dartle — to move swiftly and repeatedly
- dartre — any skin disease characterized by scabby or flaky skin, such as herpes or eczema
- daruma — a large red papier-mâché Japanese doll in the form of a seated potbellied Buddhist monk: considered a bringer of luck and prosperity.
- darvon — propoxyphene hydrochloride
- darwin — a port in N Australia, capital of the Northern Territory: destroyed by a cyclone in 1974 but rebuilt on the same site. Pop: 129 062 (2011)
- dasein — (philosophy) Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence.
- dashed — made up of dashes: a dashed line down the middle of the road.
- dasher — someone or something that dashes
- dashes — Plural form of dash.
- dassie — another name for a hyrax, esp the rock hyrax
- dassin — Jules [joolz;; French zhyl] /dʒulz;; French ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1911–2008, French motion-picture director, born in the U.S.
- dastur — a Parsee chief priest.
- datary — the head of the dataria (deɪˈtɛərɪə ), the papal office that assesses candidates for benefices reserved to the Holy See
- datcha — a Russian country house or villa.
- daters — Plural form of dater.
- dating — Dating agencies or services are for people who are trying to find a girlfriend or boyfriend.
- dation — (rare, legal) The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift.
- dative — In the grammar of some languages, for example Latin, the dative, or the dative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the indirect object of a verb, or when it comes after some prepositions.
- datong — a city in N Shanxi province, in NE China.
- datums — Plural form of datum.
- datura — any of various chiefly Indian solanaceous plants of the genus Datura, such as the moonflower and thorn apple, having large trumpet-shaped flowers, prickly pods, and narcotic properties
- daubed — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- dauber — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- daubes — Plural form of daube.
- daubry — the action of smearing or painting unskilfully
- daudet — Alphonse (alfɔ̃s). 1840–97, French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist: noted particularly for his humorous sketches of Provençal life, as in Lettres de mon moulin (1866)
- dauncy — donsie.
- dauner — an amble or walk
- daunts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of daunt.
- daunus — father of Euippe, second wife of Diomedes.
- dauted — to caress.
- dautie — a beloved person who is petted or pampered
- davies — Sir John. 1569–1626, English poet, author of Orchestra or a Poem of Dancing (1596) and the philosophical poem Nosce Teipsum (1599)
- davits — Plural form of davit.
- davout — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), Duke of Auerstadt [ou-er-stat] /ˈaʊ ərˌstæt/ (Show IPA), Prince of Eckmühl [ek-myool] /ˈɛk myul/ (Show IPA), 1770–1823, marshal of France: one of Napoleon's leading generals.
- dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
- dawing — Present participle of daw.
- dawned — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dawney — (of a person) dull or slow; listless
- dawson — a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)
- dawted — Simple past tense and past participle of dawt.