6-letter words starting with d
- darwin — a port in N Australia, capital of the Northern Territory: destroyed by a cyclone in 1974 but rebuilt on the same site. Pop: 129 062 (2011)
- dasein — (philosophy) Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence.
- dashed — made up of dashes: a dashed line down the middle of the road.
- dasher — someone or something that dashes
- dashes — Plural form of dash.
- dassie — another name for a hyrax, esp the rock hyrax
- dassin — Jules [joolz;; French zhyl] /dʒulz;; French ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1911–2008, French motion-picture director, born in the U.S.
- dastur — a Parsee chief priest.
- datary — the head of the dataria (deɪˈtɛərɪə ), the papal office that assesses candidates for benefices reserved to the Holy See
- datcha — a Russian country house or villa.
- daters — Plural form of dater.
- dating — Dating agencies or services are for people who are trying to find a girlfriend or boyfriend.
- dation — (rare, legal) The act of giving, granting or conferring (e.g. an office) but not liberal as a donation or gift.
- dative — In the grammar of some languages, for example Latin, the dative, or the dative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the indirect object of a verb, or when it comes after some prepositions.
- datong — a city in N Shanxi province, in NE China.
- datums — Plural form of datum.
- datura — any of various chiefly Indian solanaceous plants of the genus Datura, such as the moonflower and thorn apple, having large trumpet-shaped flowers, prickly pods, and narcotic properties
- daubed — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- dauber — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- daubes — Plural form of daube.
- daubry — the action of smearing or painting unskilfully
- daudet — Alphonse (alfɔ̃s). 1840–97, French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist: noted particularly for his humorous sketches of Provençal life, as in Lettres de mon moulin (1866)
- dauncy — donsie.
- dauner — an amble or walk
- daunts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of daunt.
- daunus — father of Euippe, second wife of Diomedes.
- dauted — to caress.
- dautie — a beloved person who is petted or pampered
- davies — Sir John. 1569–1626, English poet, author of Orchestra or a Poem of Dancing (1596) and the philosophical poem Nosce Teipsum (1599)
- davits — Plural form of davit.
- davout — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), Duke of Auerstadt [ou-er-stat] /ˈaʊ ərˌstæt/ (Show IPA), Prince of Eckmühl [ek-myool] /ˈɛk myul/ (Show IPA), 1770–1823, marshal of France: one of Napoleon's leading generals.
- dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
- dawing — Present participle of daw.
- dawned — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dawney — (of a person) dull or slow; listless
- dawson — a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)
- dawted — Simple past tense and past participle of dawt.
- daybed — a couch that can also be used as a bed
- dayboy — a boy who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- dayfly — the adult mayfly
- dayhop — a day's journey; a distance that can be traveled in one day.
- daylit — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- dayton — an industrial city in SW Ohio: aviation research centre. Pop: 161 696 (2003 est)
- dazing — to stun or stupefy with a blow, shock, etc.: He was dazed by a blow on the head.
- dazzle — If someone or something dazzles you, you are extremely impressed by their skill, qualities, or beauty.
- dbfast — dBASE dialect for MS-DOS and MS-Windows.
- de man — Paul, 1919–83, U.S. literary critic and theorist, born in Belgium.
- de wet — Christian Rudolf. 1854–1922, Afrikaner military commander and politician, who led the Orange Free State army in the second Boer War (1899–1902). He was imprisoned for treason (1914) after organizing an Afrikaner nationalist rebellion
- de-ice — to free or be freed of ice
- de-man — to reduce the workforce of (a plant, industry, etc)