5-letter words starting with d
- debag — to remove the trousers from (someone) by force
- debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
- debby — relating to or resembling a debutante
- debel — to overcome or beat (an opponent) in combat
- debir — a royal city in the vicinity of Hebron, conquered by Othniel.
- debit — When your bank debits your account, money is taken from it and paid to someone else.
- debra — a feminine name: dim. Debbie, Debby
- debts — Plural form of debt.
- debug — When someone debugs a computer program, they look for the faults in it and correct them so that it will run properly.
- debur — to remove burs from (a piece of machined metal)
- debus — to unload (goods) or (esp of troops) to alight from a motor vehicle
- debut — The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
- debye — Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884–1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments
- deca- — denoting ten: decagon. In conjunction with scientific units the symbol da is used
- decad — the number ten
- decaf — Decaf is decaffeinated coffee.
- decal — Decals are pieces of paper with a design on one side. The design can be transferred onto a surface by heating it, soaking it in water, or pressing it hard.
- decan — any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
- decca — a British radio navigational aid by which a fix is obtained by determining phase difference between continuous-wave signals from two synchronized fixed signals.
- decem — ten.
- decer — great, wonderful.
- deci- — denoting one tenth; 10–1
- decko — a peek or a glance
- decks — Plural form of deck.
- decon — Abbreviation of decontamination.
- decor — The decor of a house or room is its style of furnishing and decoration.
- decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
- decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
- decus — Digital Equipment Computer Users Society
- decyl — a group of isomeric univalent radicals, C 10 H 21 , derived from the decanes by removing one hydrogen atom.
- dedal — daedal.
- deech — (transitive) To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.
- deede — Obsolete spelling of deed.
- deeds — formal legal documents signed, witnessed, and delivered to effect a conveyance or transfer of property or to create a legal obligation or contract
- deedy — hard-working, busy, eager, and tireless
- deeme — Obsolete spelling of deem.
- deems — Regard or consider in a specified way.
- deepe — Obsolete spelling of deep.
- deeps — Plural form of deep.
- deere — John, 1804–86, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of farm implements.
- deers — any of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of the males of which have solid, deciduous antlers.
- deets — (slang) Details.
- deeve — to cause deafness in (a person) with loud noise
- defat — to remove the fat from (a substance)
- defer — If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
- defib — (informal, transitive) To defibrillate.
- defly — Obsolete form of deftly.
- defoe — Daniel. ?1660–1731, English novelist, journalist, spymaster, and pamphleteer, noted particularly for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). His other novels include Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
- defog — to clear (something) of fog or vapour