5-letter words containing da
- 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.
- dahna — a desert area in central Saudi Arabia, to the N of the Rub` al Khali (Empty Quarter)
- daily — If something happens daily, it happens every day.
- daint — dainty
- dairy — A dairy is a shop or company that sells milk and food made from milk, such as butter, cream, and cheese.
- daisy — A daisy is a small wild flower with a yellow centre and white petals.
- dakar — the capital and chief port of Senegal, on the SE side of Cape Verde peninsula. Pop: 2 313 000 (2005 est)
- daker — a unit of commodities equivalent to ten
- dakir — Alternative form of daker.
- dalan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- dalek — any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech
- dalen — Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as 'Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912
- dales — a strong working breed of pony, originating from Yorkshire and Durham
- dalet — The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- daley — Richard J(oseph) 1902–76, U.S. politician: mayor of Chicago 1955–76.
- dalit — a member of the lowest class in India, whom those of the four main castes were formerly forbidden to touch
- dally — If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
- dalny — former Russian name of Dalian (def 2).
- daman — a rare name for the hyrax, esp the Syrian rock hyrax
- 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.
- damar — dammar
- damas — French name of Damascus.
- dambo — A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa.
- dames — Plural form of dame.
- damia — a spirit of fertility.
- damme — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- dammy — Alternative form of damme.
- damns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damn.
- 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
- damps — Moisture diffused through the air or a solid substance or condensed on a surface, typically with detrimental or unpleasant effects.
- dampy — damp or moist
- danae — the mother of Perseus by Zeus, who visits her in the form of a shower of gold
- danby — 1st Earl of, title of Thomas Osborne. 1631–1712, English politician; Lord Treasurer (1673–78): regarded as the founder of the Tory party
- dance — If you dance a particular kind of dance, you do it or perform it.
- dancy — (of music) appropriate for dancing
- danda — A punctuation character (\u0964) used in the Devan\u0101gar\u012b script to mark the end of a sentence.
- dandy — A dandy is a man who thinks a great deal about his appearance and always dresses in smart clothes.
- dangs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dang.
- dania — a town in S Florida.
- danio — any brightly coloured tropical freshwater cyprinid fish of the genus Danio and related genera: popular aquarium fishes
- danna — (obsolete slang) Shit: human feces.
- danny — the hand (used esp when addressing children)
- dante — full name Dante Alighieri (Italian aliˈɡjɛːri). 1265–1321, Italian poet famous for La Divina Commedia (?1309–?1320), an allegorical account of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided by Virgil and his idealized love Beatrice. His other works include La Vita Nuova (?1292), in which he celebrates his love for Beatrice
- danza — A Puerto Rican music genre associated with ballroom dance.
- danzi — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1763–1826, German composer.
- daraf — a unit of elastance equal to a reciprocal farad
- darby — Abraham. 1677–1717, British iron manufacturer: built the first coke-fired blast furnace (1709)
- darcy — a unit expressing the permeability coefficient of rock
- dared — an act of daring or defiance; challenge.