Words beginning with D

A small, round spot.

A city, the county seat of Houston County, Alabama, United States. Named after the biblical Dothan.

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The largest city of Cameroon, situated on the west coast.

A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.

The act of trying someone twice for the same offense, especially after an acquittal in the first trial.

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Alternative spelling of double entendre.

To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.

Subject to, or causing doubt.

A diminutive of the male given name Douglas.

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A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particu…

A surname from Irish.

Catachresis for dowdy.

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic of Scottish origin.

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A settlement (Lower Dounreay) and nuclear establishment (now decommissioned) on the north coast of Caithness, Highland council area,…

Stern, harsh and forbidding.

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

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A male given name from Yiddish, variant of David.

Dow Jones & Company, an American publishing and financial information firm.

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A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.

A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.

A downward trend, or the beginnings of one.

Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.