5-letter words starting with d
- dauby — Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
- dauer — (nematology) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.
- daugh — An old Scots unit of measure equal to four ploughgates.
- dault — a child who is brought up in a family to which he or she has no blood connection
- daunt — If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dauts — to caress.
- davao — a port in the S Philippines, in SE Mindanao. Pop: 1 326 000 (2005 est)
- daven — to pray
- david — the second king of the Hebrews (about 1000–962 bc), who united Israel as a kingdom with Jerusalem as its capital
- davie — a town in SE Florida.
- davil — Eye dialect devil.
- davis — Sir Andrew (Frank). born 1944, British conductor; chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1989–2000) and of the Chicago Lyric Opera from 2000
- davit — a cranelike device, usually one of a pair, fitted with a tackle for suspending or lowering equipment, esp a lifeboat
- davos — a mountain resort in Switzerland: winter sports, site of the Parsenn ski run. Pop: 11 417 (2000). Height: about 1560 m (5118 ft)
- davys — John, Davis, John.
- dawah — the practice or policy of conveying the message of Islam to non-Muslims
- dawed — Simple past tense and past participle of daw.
- dawes — Charles Gates. 1865–1951, US financier, diplomat, and statesman, who devised the Dawes Plan for German reparations payments after World War I; vice president of the US (1925–29); Nobel peace prize 1925
- dawgs — Plural form of dawg.
- dawks — a person who advocates neither a conciliatory nor a belligerent national attitude.
- dawns — Plural form of dawn.
- dayak — Dyak
- dayan — a senior rabbi, esp one who sits in a religious court
- daych — to thatch
- dayer — (in combination) Something lasting a specified number of days.
- daynt — a thing or condition that is extravagant or best
- dayum — (slang, emphatic) eye dialect of damn, representing Southern US.
- dazed — If someone is dazed, they are confused and unable to think clearly, often because of shock or a blow to the head.
- dazer — a device that dazes or stuns, esp one which stops dogs barking
- dazes — Plural form of daze.
- dazix — Daisy/Cadnetix Corporation. A supplier of digital electronic CAE systems.
- db-25 — (hardware) The standard 25-pin D-shell connector used for EIA-232 serial communication.
- dbase — (tool, product, language) An interactive DBMS, originally from Ashton-Tate Corporation, and the language used by it. dBASE evolved from Vulcan by Wayne Ratliffe, which came out in around 1980 and ran on CP/M. It was called dBaseII when sold to Ashton-Tate Corporation. The first release was dBASE II, ca 1980. There never was a "dBASE I". Later versions included: dBASE III, dBASE III+, and dBASE IV. Ashton-Tate was taken over in the early 1990s by what became Borland Software Corporation who sold dBase in March(?) 1999 to the newly formed dBase Inc. dBase Inc's first release was Visual dBASE 5.7, a Y2K upgrade to Visual dBASE 5.x. Current version, as of 2003-11-24: dBASE PLUS 2.0x build 1703.
- ddcmp — Digital Data Communications Message Protocol (DEC).
- de re — (of a belief, possibility, etc) relating to the individual rather than to an expression, as the necessity of the number of wonders of the world is prime since that number, seven, is necessarily prime
- deade — Obsolete spelling of dead.
- deads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dead.
- deale — Archaic spelling of deal.
- deals — Plural form of deal.
- dealt — Dealt is the past tense and past participle of deal2.
- dealy — (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
- deane — Sir William Patrick. born 1931, Australian lawyer. He became a High Court judge in 1982 and governor-general of Australia (1996–2001)
- deans — Plural form of dean.
- deare — an act of damage or injury
- dearn — alone or unseen
- dears — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- deary — a term of affection: now often sarcastic or facetious
- deash — to take ash out of or away from (a syrup containing ash ions)
- death — Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
- deave — to deafen