| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| docketing | present participle & vb. noun | of Docket |
| doctoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Doctor |
| doctorate | noun | The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor., To make (one) a doctor. |
| doctoress | noun | A female doctor. |
| doctrinal | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation., Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching., A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. |
| dodecagon | noun | A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles. |
| dog-brier | noun | The dog-rose. |
| dog-eared | adjective | Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; — said of a book. |
| dog-faced | adjective | Having a face resembling that of a dog. |
| doggerman | noun | A sailor belonging to a dogger. |
| dogmatics | noun | The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology. |
| dogmatism | noun | The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion. |
| dogmatist | noun | One who dogmatizes; one who speaks dogmatically; a bold and arrogant advancer of principles. |
| dogmatize | verb i. | To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance., To deliver as a dogma. |
| dog’s-ear | noun | The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. |
| dog-weary | adjective | Extremely weary. |
| doleritic | adjective | Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. |
| dolioform | adjective | Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form. |
| do-little | noun | One who performs little though professing much. |
| dollardee | noun | A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; — called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream. |
| dolomitic | adjective | Pertaining to dolomite. |
| dolorific | adjective | Alt. of Dolorifical |
| dolphinet | noun | A female dolphin. |
| domeykite | noun | A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper. |
| domiciled | imp. & past participle | of Domicile |
| dominance | noun | Alt. of Dominancy |
| dominancy | noun | Predominance; ascendency; authority. |
| dominated | imp. & past participle | of Dominate |
| dominator | noun | A ruler or ruling power. |
| dominical | adjective | Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord’s day, or Sunday., Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord’s) prayer., The Lord’s day or Sunday; also, the Lord’s prayer. |
| dominican | adjective | Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him., One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins. |
| domitable | adjective | That can be tamed. |
| do-naught | noun | A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow. |
| doom palm | A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. | |
| doorcheek | noun | The jamb or sidepiece of a door. |
| doorplane | noun | A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. |
| doorstead | noun | Entrance or place of a door. |
| doorstone | noun | The stone forming a threshold. |
| dorbeetle | noun | See 1st Dor. |
| dormitive | adjective | Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium., A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate. |
| dormitory | noun | A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school., A burial place. |
| doryphora | noun | A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle. |
| doubtable | adjective | Capable of being doubted; questionable., Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. |
| doubtance | noun | State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. |
| doubtless | adjective | Free from fear or suspicion., Undoubtedly; without doubt. |
| doucepere | noun | One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. |
| doughbird | noun | The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew. |
| doughface | noun | A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. |
| doughtily | adverb | In a doughty manner. |
| doughtren | noun pl. | Daughters. |
| doum palm | See Doom palm. | |
| dove-eyed | adjective | Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace. |
| dowelling | of Dowel | |
| dowerless | adjective | Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. |
| dowitcher | noun | The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); — called also brownback, and grayback. |
| downgyved | adjective | Hanging down like gyves or fetters. |
| downiness | noun | The quality or state of being downy. |
| downlying | noun | The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. |
| downright | adverb | Straight down; perpendicularly., In plain terms; without ceremony., Without delay; at once; completely., Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way., Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. |
| downthrow | noun | The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n. |
| downwards | adverb | From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards., From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin., From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. |
| downweigh | verb t. | To weigh or press down. |