| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| docibility | noun | Alt. of Docibleness |
| docimastic | adjective | Proving by experiments or tests. |
| docimology | noun | A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc. |
| dock-cress | noun | Nipplewort. |
| docoglossa | noun pl. | An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon. |
| doctorally | adverb | In the manner of a doctor. |
| doctorship | noun | Doctorate. |
| documental | adjective | Of or pertaining to instruction., Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony. |
| doggedness | noun | Sullenness; moroseness., Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence. |
| dog-headed | adjective | Having a head shaped like that of a dog; — said of certain baboons. |
| dog-legged | adjective | Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole. |
| dogmatical | adjective | Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet., Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. |
| dogmatized | imp. & past participle | of Dogmatize |
| dogmatizer | noun | One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher. |
| dog’s-bane | noun | See Dogbane. |
| dokimastic | adjective | Docimastic. |
| dolcemente | adverb | Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution. |
| domestical | adjective | Domestic., A family; a household. |
| domiciling | present participle & vb. noun | of Domicile |
| domiciliar | noun | A member of a household; a domestic. |
| dominating | present participle & vb. noun | of Dominate |
| domination | noun | The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway., A ruling party; a party in power., A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; — a meaning given by the schoolmen. |
| dominative | adjective | Governing; ruling; imperious. |
| domineered | imp. & past participle | of Domineer |
| dominicide | noun | The act of killing a master., One who kills his master. |
| donatistic | adjective | Pertaining to Donatism. |
| doniferous | adjective | Bearing gifts. |
| do-nothing | adjective | Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy. |
| doob grass | A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. | |
| doodlesack | noun | The Scotch bagpipe. |
| doorkeeper | noun | One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor. |
| dopplerite | noun | A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses. |
| dorsimeson | noun | (Anat.) See Meson. |
| doryphoros | noun | A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us. |
| doub grass | Doob grass. | |
| double-dye | verb t. | To dye again or twice over. |
| doubleness | noun | The state of being double or doubled., Duplicity; insincerity. |
| doubletree | noun | The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached. |
| doubtfully | adverb | In a doubtful manner. |
| doughiness | noun | The quality or state of being doughy. |
| doulocracy | noun | A government by slaves. |
| dove plant | A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; — called also Holy Spirit plant. | |
| dovetailed | imp. & past participle | of Dovetail |
| dowagerism | noun | The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. |
| downfallen | adjective | Fallen; ruined. |
| downlooked | adjective | Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. |
| down-share | noun | A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. |
| downstairs | adverb | Down the stairs; to a lower floor., Below stairs; as, a downstairs room. |
| downsteepy | adjective | Very steep. |
| downstream | adverb | Down the stream; as, floating downstream. |
| downstroke | noun | A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil. |
| doxologize | verb i. | To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies. |
| doxologies | plural | of Doxology |