Words beginning with D

Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.

A broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ of the tetracycline class, which has a long half-life in the body and used orally to treat va…

One who dozes.

Initialism of data processing.

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Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

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In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizar…

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An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicu…

A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)

A male duck (bird).

The characters in a play, story, or history; a list of them, usually arranged in order of first appearance, as protatic matter.

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The desire of slaves to run away, viewed as a mental illness.

Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.

An undead creature from Norse mythology, an animated corpse that inhabits its grave, often guarding buried treasure.

A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.

A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.

An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.

Transportation by dray.

Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ (nun), ג (gimel), ה (hey), and ש (shin) (or פ (pey)) on each sid…

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A handheld rotary tool with various attachments e.g., circular saw blades.