5 Letter Words That Start With D

drive

Noun : Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

Noun : Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

Noun : An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.

dream

Noun : Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

Noun : (figurative) A hope or wish.

Noun : A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.

dwell

Noun : (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.

Noun : (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.

Noun : (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.

dance

Noun : A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

Noun : A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

Noun : (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.

divet

Noun : Archaic form of divot. [(especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.]

dagga

Noun : (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, or a similar plant of the species Leonotis leonurus.

Noun : (South Africa) Cement.

divit

drink

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

Verb : (transitive, metonymically) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

Verb : (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.

defer

Verb : (transitive) To delay or postpone

Verb : (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.

Verb : (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).

death

Noun : The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

Noun : Execution (in the judicial sense).

Noun : (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

draft

Noun : (American spelling) A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.

Noun : (American spelling) The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.

Noun : (American spelling) An act of drinking.

drift

Noun : (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.

Noun : Anything driven at random.

Noun : A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.

doubt

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.

drill

Verb : (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

Verb : (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.

Verb : (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.

drone

Noun : A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.

Noun : (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.

Noun : (metonymically): One who performs menial or tedious work.

dogma

Noun : An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.

Noun : A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.

dress

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.

Verb : (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.

devil

Noun : (theology) The chief devil; Satan.

Noun : (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.

Noun : (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.

delta

Noun : The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.

Noun : A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

Noun : (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".

demur

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry

Verb : (intransitive) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.

Verb : (intransitive) To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk

daisy

Noun : A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals

Noun : Many other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.

Noun : (Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.

delay

Noun : A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

Noun : (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.

Noun : (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)

dread

Verb : (transitive) To fear greatly.

Verb : To anticipate with fear.

Verb : (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.

drama

Noun : (countable) A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

Noun : (countable) Such a work for television, radio or the cinema, usually one that is not a comedy.

Noun : (uncountable) Theatrical plays in general.

delve

Verb : (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.

deter

Verb : (transitive) To prevent something from happening.

Verb : (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.

Verb : (transitive) To distract someone from something.

ditch

Noun : A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

Noun : (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.

Verb : (transitive) To discard or abandon.

deuce

Noun : (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

Noun : (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.

Noun : (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.

depth

Noun : the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

Noun : the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

Noun : (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

decay

Noun : The process or result of being gradually decomposed.

Noun : A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.

Noun : (obsolete) Overthrow, downfall, ruin.

drain

Noun : (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)

Noun : (chiefly UK) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.

Noun : Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

deity

Noun : Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.

Noun : A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.

droll

Adjective : Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

Noun : (archaic) A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.

Verb : (archaic) To jest, to joke.

dodge

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

Verb : (archaic) To go hither and thither.

ditto

Noun : That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

Noun : (US, informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.

Noun : (by extension) A copy; an imitation.

dutch

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

Adjective : (archaic, fossil word) Pertaining to Germanic-speaking peoples on the European continent, chiefly the Germans (especially established German-speaking communities in parts of the USA), or the Dutch; Teutonic; Germanic.

Adjective : (obsolete, fossil word, derogatory) Substitute, inferior, ersatz.

debut

Noun : A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.

Noun : (also attributive) The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.

Noun : The first appearance of a debutante in society.

dense

Adjective : Having relatively high density.

Adjective : Compact; crowded together.

Adjective : Thick; difficult to penetrate.

dough

Noun : A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

Noun : (slang, somewhat dated) Money.

Verb : (transitive) To make into dough.

decry

Verb : (transitive) To denounce as harmful.

Verb : (transitive) To blame for ills.

doozy

Noun : (US, informal) Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.

Adjective : (slang, dated) Of high quality; remarkable; excellent.

Adjective : (slang, US, archaic) Sporty, ostentatious, flashy.

deign

Verb : (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.

Verb : (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.

Verb : (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.

dwarf

Noun : (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

Noun : (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

Noun : An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

divot

Noun : (especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.

Noun : A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.

Noun : (mathematics, astronomy) a drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)

dandy

Noun : A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.

Noun : (Britain, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.

Noun : A dandy roller.

decor

Noun : The style of decoration of a room or building.

Noun : A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop.

depot

Noun : A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

Noun : A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.

Noun : (US) A bus station or railway station.

dross

Noun : Waste or impure matter.

Noun : Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.

Noun : The impurities in metal.

diddy

Noun : (slang) A woman's breast.

Noun : (informal, Ireland, Britain) A fool, a tit.

Adjective : (UK, informal) very small, tiny

dirty

Adjective : Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

Adjective : That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.

Adjective : Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.

dingy

Adjective : dark, dull

Adjective : shabby, squalid, uncared-for

Noun : Alternative form of dinghy [(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.]

dummy

Noun : (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.

Noun : A stupid person.

Noun : (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address for somebody.

duvet

Noun : (Britain, New Zealand, Canada) A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

Noun : (US) Short for duvet cover.

dozen

Noun : A set of twelve.

Noun : (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

Noun : (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

daily

Adjective : That occurs every day, or at least every working day

Adjective : diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

Noun : Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

datum

Noun : (philosophy) A fact known from direct observation.

Noun : (philosophy) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.

Noun : (cartography, surveying, engineering) A fixed reference point or set of reference points which precisely define a system of measurement or a coordinate system.

dairy

Noun : A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.

Noun : A dairy farm.

Noun : A shop selling dairy products.

dodgy

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Evasive and shifty.

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Unsound and unreliable.

Adjective : Dishonest.

dight

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).

Verb : (archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).

derby

Noun : Any of several annual horse races.

Noun : (by extension) Any organized race.

Noun : (US) A bowler hat.

demon

Noun : An evil supernatural spirit.

Noun : An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.

Noun : (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.

dying

Adjective : Approaching death; about to die; moribund.

Adjective : Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

Adjective : Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

diary

Noun : A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

Noun : (Britain, Canada) A personal organizer or appointment diary.

Adjective : (obsolete) Lasting for one day.

digit

Noun : (mathematics) A position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system.

Noun : (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing a natural number in a positional number system.

Noun : (units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

drawn

Adjective : Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.

Adjective : Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

drown

Verb : (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

Verb : (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

Verb : (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

douse

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.

Verb : (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.

Verb : (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.

dizzy

Adjective : Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

Adjective : Producing giddiness.

Adjective : Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

dirge

Noun : A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

Noun : (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

Verb : To sing dirges

doyen

Noun : (obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men.

Noun : The senior, or eldest male member of a group.

Noun : (colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

drunk

Adjective : Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

Adjective : (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

Adjective : (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

decal

Noun : A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.

Noun : (US) A decorative sticker.

Verb : (transitive) To apply decals to.

darth

Noun : (humorous) Used as a title or name for an evil person.

drool

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.

Verb : (intransitive, informal, figurative) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.

dowry

Noun : Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.

Noun : (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.

Noun : (obsolete) Dower.

dweeb

Noun : (US, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) A boring, studious, or socially inept person.

david

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun : (biblical) The second king of Judah and Israel, the successor of King Saul in the Old Testament; the son of Jesse and the father of Nathan and King Solomon.

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic common in Wales, in honor of the ancient Saint David of Wales.

dicky

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

Noun : (colloquial) A louse.

Noun : (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.

dolly

Noun : (childish, colloquial) A doll.

Noun : (cooking) A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.

Noun : A contrivance for stirring:

dally

Verb : To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

Verb : To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

drape

Noun : A curtain; a drapery.

Noun : (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.

Noun : (US) A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.

decoy

Noun : A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.

Noun : A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.

Noun : Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.

diode

Noun : (electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.

debit

Noun : In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.

Noun : A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.

Verb : To make an entry on the debit side of an account.

donut

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard, or cream.

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US) Anything in the shape of a circle or torus.

Noun : (Canada, US, Europe, automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a donut; a 360-degree skid.

daunt

Verb : (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.

Verb : (transitive) To overwhelm.

Noun : A surname from Middle English.

diner

Noun : One who dines.

Noun : A dining car in a railroad train.

Noun : (US) A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.

dowdy

Adjective : Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.

Adjective : Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

Noun : A plain or shabby person.

dealt

Noun : a 2017 American documentary film directed by Luke Korem.

draco

Noun : (African-American Vernacular) A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.

Noun : (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dragon. It features a line of stars (including Thuban) that winds between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

Noun : The name of an Athenian lawgiver, known for the severity of his laws.

derma

Noun : The inner layer of the skin.

Noun : A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.

drake

Noun : A male duck.

Noun : A mayfly used as fishing bait.

Noun : (poetic) A dragon.

demit

Verb : (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.

Verb : To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Noun : The act of demitting.

drove

Noun : A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

Noun : (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

Noun : (collective) A group of hares.

donna

Noun : A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.

Noun : A female given name from Italian.

Noun : A city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, named after postmistress Donna Fletcher.

denim

Noun : A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.

dryer

Noun : One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.

Noun : A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.

Noun : An electric hair dryer.

dower

Noun : (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.

Noun : (law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.

Noun : (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

divan

Noun : (now historical) A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan).

Noun : The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice.

Noun : (now rare) Any council or assembly.

daddy

Noun : (usually childish) Father.

Noun : (informal, with article) A perfect example, a role model.

Noun : (informal, in early use chiefly African-American Vernacular) A male lover.

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