Words in english starting with D

• drag one's feet — Verb – English ～ postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
• declare oneself — Verb – English ～ ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"
• drop open — Verb – English ～ open involuntarily; "His mouth dropped open"; "Her jaw dropped"
• dyadic operation — Noun – English ～ an operation on exactly two operands
• dissenting opinion — Noun – English ～ an opinion that disagrees with the court's disposition of the case
• difference of opinion — Noun – English ～ a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
• diametrical opposition — Noun – English ～ the relation of opposition along a diameter
• default option — Noun – English ～ an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
• Doctor of Optometry — Noun – English ～ a doctor's degree in optometry
• do-or-die — Adjective – English ～ desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
• Delphic oracle — Noun – English ～ (Greek mythology) the oracle at Delphi where a priestess supposedly delivered messages from Apollo to those who sought advice; the messages were usually obscure or ambiguous
• dance orchestra — Noun – English ～ a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
• dancing lady orchid — Noun – English ～ any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants
• Dominican order — Noun – English ～ a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century
• Dorian order — Noun – English ～ the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base
• Doric order — Noun – English ～ the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base
• Dipodomys ordi — Noun – English ～ most widely distributed kangaroo rat: plains and mountain areas of central and western United States
• dressed ore — Noun – English ～ the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
• Dryopteris oreades — Noun – English ～ a fern of the genus Dryopteris
• Dryopteris oreopteris — Noun – English ～ common European mountain fern having fragrant lemon or balsam scented fronds

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