5-letter words starting with d
- defra — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- degas — to remove gas from (a container, vacuum tube, liquid, adsorbent, etc)
- degen — (cant) Sword.
- degum — to remove gum from (a substance or object)
- degut — to remove the entrails of; disembowel; gut.
- deice — to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- deify — If someone is deified, they are considered to be a god or are regarded with very great respect.
- deign — If you say that someone deigned to do something, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they did it unwillingly, because they thought they were too important to do it.
- deira — kingdom in present-day NE England in the 6th century a.d., merged with Bernicia to form the kingdom of Northumbria.
- deism — Deism is the belief that there is a God who made the world but does not influence human lives.
- deist — a believer in deism
- deity — A deity is a god or goddess.
- deka- — deca-
- deked — Simple past tense and past participle of deke.
- dekes — Plural form of deke.
- dekko — a look; glance; view (esp in the phrase take a dekko (at))
- dekle — (art) Alternative form of deckle.
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- deled — to delete.
- delft — a town in the SW Netherlands, in South Holland province. Pop: 97 000 (2003 est)
- delhi — the capital of India, in the N central part, on the Jumna river: consists of Old Delhi (a walled city reconstructed in 1639 on the site of former cities of Delhi, which date from the 15th century bc) and New Delhi to the south, chosen as the capital in 1912, replacing Kolkata (then called Calcutta); university (1922). Pop: 9 817 439 (2001)
- delia — the recipes or style of cooking of British cookery writer Delia Smith (born 1941)
- delis — Plural form of deli.
- della — a female given name, form of Delia.
- dells — dalles
- delly — full of dells
- delos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades: a commercial centre in ancient times; the legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Area: about 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
- delph — Delftware crockery.
- delta — A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
- delts — (bodybuilding, slang) The deltoid muscles.
- delve — If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.
- demes — Plural form of deme.
- demi- — Demi- is used at the beginning of some words to refer to something equivalent to half of the object or amount indicated by the rest of the word.
- demic — characteristic of or pertaining to a people or population
- demis — Plural form of demi.
- demit — to resign (an office, position, etc)
- demix — (of a mixture) To separate into its components.
- demo- — indicating people or population
- demob — Someone's demob is their release from the armed forces.
- demoi — (political science) Plural form of demos The common populaces of several states.
- demon — A demon is an evil spirit.
- demos — the people of a nation regarded as a political unit
- demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
- denar — the standard monetary unit of Macedonia, divided into 100 deni
- denay — a denial
- dench — Dame Judi (Olivia). born 1934, British actress and theatre director: her film roles include Mrs Brown (1997), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and, from1995 to 2012, 'M' in the James Bond series of films
- deneb — the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus and one of the brightest but remotest stars in the night sky. Visual magnitude: 1.25; spectral type: A2I
- denes — Plural form of dene.
- denet — (formerly, in Britain) to sell (a book) at a lower price than that specified by the Net Book Agreement
- deng. — Doctor of Engineering