8-letter words starting with da
- danishes — Plural form of danish.
- dankness — unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- danubian — of or relating to the river Danube
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- daphnias — Plural form of daphnia.
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- dappling — Present participle of dapple.
- darbyite — a member of the Plymouth Brethren.
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- dare say — to think likely; suppose
- daringly — In a daring manner; boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darkmans — night-time
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darkroom — A darkroom is a room which can be sealed off from natural light and is lit only by red light. It is used for developing photographs.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- darraine — clear of guilt
- darshana — any of the six principal systems of philosophy.
- dartford — a town in SE England, in NW Kent. Pop: 56 818 (2001)
- dartitis — (in darts) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- dartmoor — a moorland plateau in SW England, in SW Devon: a national park since 1951. Area: 945 sq km (365 sq miles)
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- dash off — If you dash off to a place, you go there very quickly.
- dashikis — Plural form of dashiki.
- dashpots — Plural form of dashpot.
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- dastards — Plural form of dastard.
- dastardy — cowardice
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- data bus — (architecture) The bus (connections between and within the CPU, memory, and peripherals) used to carry data. Other connections are the address bus and control signals. The width and clock rate of the data bus determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second it can carry), which is one of the main factors determining the processing power of a computer. Most current processor designs use a 32-bit bus, meaning that 32 bits of data can be transferred at once. Some processors have an internal data bus which is wider than their external bus in order to make external connections cheaper while retaining some of the benefits in processing power of a wider bus. See also data path.
- data cap — a limit imposed on the amount of data that can be transferred to an electronic device
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- data set — a collection of data records for computer processing.
- databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
- database — A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer and that can easily be used and added to.
- datacard — a credit card-sized electronic device containing an electronic memory, and sometimes an embedded microchip; smart card
- datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
- datagram — a self-contained unit of data transmitted in a packet-switched network
- dataller — a worker paid by the day