6-letter words starting with da
- 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.