5-letter words starting with d
- dioon — any of several Mexican and Central American palmlike plants belonging to the genus Dioon, of the cycad family, having a crown of stiff, pinnate leaves.
- diose — A monosaccharide containing two carbon atoms.
- diota — a type of ancient vase with two handles
- diouf — Abdou [ab-doo] /æbˈdu/ (Show IPA), born 1935, president of Senegal 1981–2000.
- dipad — Diploma in Art and Design
- diped — Diploma in Education
- dippy — somewhat mad or foolish: dippy with love.
- dipso — a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
- dirac — Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- diram — A Tajikistani coin; 100 dirams equal one somoni.
- direr — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirft — Do It Right the First Time
- dirge — a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- dirgy — Like a dirge; funereal.
- dirke — Obsolete form of dirk.
- dirks — Plural form of dirk.
- dirls — to vibrate; shake.
- dirts — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- dirty — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- disad — (informal) A disadvantage.
- disci — a circular disk more than 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter and 2.2 pounds (1 kg) in weight, usually wooden with a metal rim and thicker in the center than at the edge, for throwing for distance in athletic competition.
- disco — discotheque.
- discs — Plural form of disc.
- dishy — Chiefly British. very attractive; pretty or beautiful: a couple of dishy fashion models.
- disir — lady; woman.
- disko — an island in Davis Strait, off the W coast of Greenland: extensive coal deposits
- disks — disk
- disme — a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- disna — Eye dialect of doesn't.
- distr — distributed
- dital — a key for raising the pitch of a lute or guitar string
- ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- ditsy — flighty and easily confused; mildly or harmlessly eccentric.
- ditti — (music genre, Antigua and Barbuda) A genre of traditional music from Antigua and Barbuda; benna, a style of calypso-like music.
- ditto — the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
- ditty — a poem intended to be sung.
- ditzy — flighty and easily confused; mildly or harmlessly eccentric.
- divan — a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
- divas — Plural form of diva.
- dived — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- diver — a person or thing that dives.
- dives — an act or instance of diving.
- divet — Alternative form of divot.
- divey — Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or nightclub.
- divis — Plural form of divi.
- divna — do not
- divot — Golf. a piece of turf gouged out with a club in making a stroke.
- divvy — a distribution or sharing.
- diwan — (in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- dixer — (Australia, politics) A planted question in Parliamentary w Question time.