5-letter words starting with d
- drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drubs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drub.
- drugs — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
- druid — a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland.
- drums — 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.
- drung — drang.
- drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- drupe — any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.
- druse — Islam. a member of an independent religious sect living chiefly in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, established in the 11th century as a branch of Ismaʿili Shiʿism and containing elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and believing in the transmigration of souls and the ultimate perfection of humankind.
- drusy — (mineralogy) Having a druse.
- druxy — (of timber, archaic) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour.
- druze — Islam. a member of an independent religious sect living chiefly in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, established in the 11th century as a branch of Ismaʿili Shiʿism and containing elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and believing in the transmigration of souls and the ultimate perfection of humankind.
- druzy — Alternative spelling of drusy.
- dryad — a deity or nymph of the woods.
- dryas — any creeping plant belonging to the genus Dryas, of the rose family, having solitary white or yellow flowers, comprising the mountain avens.
- dryer — Also, drier. a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat: hair dryer; clothes dryer.
- dryly — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- dslam — Digital Subscriber Line Access Module
- dsorg — data set organization
- dsssl — Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
- du fu — Tu Fu.
- duala — Douala.
- duals — of, relating to, or noting two.
- duane — a male given name.
- dubai — an emirate in the NE United Arab Emirates, on the Persian Gulf.
- dubbo — a city in E Australia.
- dubbs — Plural form of dubb.
- dubby — (music) In the style of dub music; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.
- dubna — a new town in W Russia, founded in 1956: site of the United Institute of Nuclear Research. Pop: 60 951 (2002)
- dubos — René Jules [ruh-ney joolz;; French ruh-ney zhyl] /rəˈneɪ dʒulz;; French rəˈneɪ ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1901–82, U.S. bacteriologist, born in France: early advocate of ecological concern.
- ducal — of or relating to a duke or dukedom.
- ducat — any of various gold coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe, especially that first issued in Venice in 1284. Compare sequin (def 2).
- duces — a leader or dictator.
- duchy — the territory ruled by a duke or duchess.
- ducks — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- ducky — fine; excellent; wonderful.
- ducts — Plural form of duct.
- duddy — ragged; tattered.
- dudes — Plural form of dude.
- duduk — (musical instruments) An Armenian woodwind instrument.
- duels — Plural form of duel.
- duero — Spanish name of Douro.
- duets — Plural form of duet.
- dufay — Guillaume [gee-yohm] /giˈyoʊm/ (Show IPA), c1400–74, Flemish composer.
- duffs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of duff.
- duffy — Sir Charles Gavan [gav-uh n] /ˈgæv ən/ (Show IPA), 1816–1903, Irish and Australian politician.
- dufus — doofus.
- dukas — Paul (Abraham) [pawl a-bra-am] /pɔl a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1865–1935, French composer.
- duked — (in Continental Europe) the male ruler of a duchy; the sovereign of a small state.
- dukes — Benjamin Newton, 1855–1929, and his brother, James Buchanan, 1856–1925, U.S. industrialists.