Words in english starting with D

• dental plate — Noun – English ～ a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
• dry plate — Noun – English ～ a former photographic method that used a glass plate coated with a light-sensitive gelatinous emulsion
• drilling platform — Noun – English ～ drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially
• duck-billed platypus — Noun – English ～ small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
• duckbilled platypus — Noun – English ～ small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
• double play — Noun – English ～ the act of getting two players out on one play
• dramatic play — Noun – English ～ a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
• draw play — Noun – English ～ (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
• dart player — Noun – English ～ someone who plays the game of darts
• dilatory plea — Noun – English ～ a plea that delays the action without settling the cause of action; it can challenge the jurisdiction or claim disability of the defendant etc. (such defenses are usually raised in the defendant's answer)
• defective pleading — Noun – English ～ any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency
• digital plethysmograph — Noun – English ～ plethysmograph applied to a digit of the hand or foot to measure skin blood flow
• diaphragmatic pleurisy — Noun – English ～ an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
• Danaus plexippus — Noun – English ～ large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed
• date plum — Noun – English ～ an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes
• damson plum — Noun – English ～ dark purple plum of the damson tree
• damson plum — Noun – English ～ tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit
• damson plum — Noun – English ～ plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit
• Dianthus plumarius — Noun – English ～ European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers
• desert plume — Noun – English ～ perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

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