5-letter words starting with d
- douse — to plunge into water or the like; drench: She doused the clothes in soapy water.
- doust — (obsolete, West Country) Dust.
- douth — (rare, or, obsolete) Virtue; excellence; atheldom; nobility; power; riches.
- dovap — Electronics. a system for plotting the trajectory of a missile or other rapidly moving long-range object by means of the Doppler effect exhibited by radio waves bounced off the object.
- doven — daven
- dover — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England: point nearest the coast of France.
- doves — Plural form of dove.
- dowds — Plural form of dowd.
- dowdy — not stylish; drab; old-fashioned: Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?
- dowed — to be able.
- dowel — a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.
- dower — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowie — dull; melancholy; dismal.
- dowle — Feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather.
- dowly — dull; low-spirited; dismal
- down- — down
- downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- downy — of the nature of or resembling down; fluffy; soft.
- dowry — Also, dower. the money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage.
- dowse — to plunge or be plunged into a liquid.
- doxie — opinion; doctrine.
- doyen — the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- doyle — Sir Arthur Conan [kaw-nuh n,, koh-] /ˈkɔ nən,, ˈkoʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.
- doyly — Archaic form of doily.
- dozed — to sleep lightly or fitfully.
- dozen — a group of 12.
- dozer — bulldozer (def 1).
- dozes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of doze.
- dphil — Doctor of Philosophy
- dps-6 — (computer) A Honeywell minicomputer from the 1980s-1990s. It originally ran the GCOS-6 operating system.
- drabs — Plural form of drab.
- drack — (esp of a woman) unattractive
- draco — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- draff — dregs, as in a brewing process; lees; refuse.
- draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drago — Luis María [loo-is muh-ree-uh;; Spanish loo-ees mah-ree-ah] /ˈlu ɪs məˈri ə;; Spanish luˈis mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1921, Argentine jurist and statesman.
- drags — Plural form of drag.
- drail — a hook with a lead-covered shank used in trolling.
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- drake — Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.
- drama — a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play.
- drams — Plural form of dram.
- drang — a narrow lane or alleyway.
- drank — a simple past tense and past participle of drink.
- drant — to drone or drawl
- drape — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drate — Simple past form of drite.
- drats — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drava — a river in S central Europe, flowing E and SE from the Alps in S Austria, through NE Slovenia, along a part of the border between Hungary and Croatia into the Danube in Croatia. 450 miles (725 km) long.
- drave — a simple past tense of drive.