4-letter words starting with d
- doth — 3rd person singular present ind. of do1 .
- dots — Plural form of dot.
- doty — (of wood) decayed.
- douc — A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.
- doug — a male given name, form of Douglas.
- doum — an African palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) bearing an edible fruit that has a taste and consistency somewhat like gingerbread; gingerbread palm
- doup — the bottom, end, or butt of something.
- dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- dout — Obsolete spelling of doubt.
- douw — Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- doux — (of champagne) very sweet.
- dove — an act or instance of diving.
- dowd — (archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
- dowf — dull; stupid.
- dowl — Alternative form of dowle.
- down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- dowp — Alternative form of doup.
- dows — to be able.
- dowt — a cigarette butt
- dowy — dull; melancholy; dismal.
- doxy — opinion; doctrine.
- doz. — dozen
- doze — to sleep lightly or fitfully.
- dozy — drowsy; half asleep.
- dper — /dee-pee-er/ Data Processor. Hackers are absolutely amazed that suits use this term self-referentially. *Computers* process data, not people! See DP.
- dpmi — DOS Protected Mode Interface
- dpms — (hardware) Display Power Management Signaling.
- dprk — Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
- dpsk — (communications) Differential Phase-Shift Keying.
- dqdb — Distributed Queue Dual Bus
- drab — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- drag — drag and drop
- dram — dynamic random-access memory
- drat — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drau — a river in S central Europe, rising in N Italy and flowing east through Austria, then southeast along the southern Hungarian border to join the River Danube. Length: 725 km (450 miles)
- draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- dray — a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
- dree — tedious; dreary.
- dreg — dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- drek — excrement; dung.
- drew — simple past tense of draw.
- drey — The nest of a squirrel, typically in the form of a mass of twigs in a tree.
- drib — a small or minute quantity; bit.
- drin — a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drow — (fantasy gaming) a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
- drub — to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
- drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.