attack dog
— Noun
– English
~ a watchdog trained to attack on command
alder dogwood
— Noun
– English
~ small tree common in Europe
American dogwood
— Noun
– English
~ common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
Australian dollar
— Noun
– English
~ the basic unit of money in Australia and Nauru
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
— Noun
– English
~ the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform
Acheta domestica
— Noun
– English
~ lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America
anno Domini
— Adverb
– English
~ in the Christian era; used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born; "in AD 200"
Antoine Domino
— Noun
– English
~ United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
Aelius Donatus
— Noun
– English
~ Roman grammarian whose textbook on Latin grammar was used throughout the Middle Ages (fourth century)
Arundo donax
— Noun
– English
~ large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles
accordion door
— Noun
– English
~ an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges)
Arthur Conan Doyle
— Noun
– English
~ British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)
A. Conan Doyle
— Noun
– English
~ British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)
Arisaema dracontium
— Noun
– English
~ early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix
American Dream
— Noun
– English
~ the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did
anchovy dressing
— Noun
– English
~ vinaigrette and mashed anchovies
Alfred Dreyfus
— Noun
– English
~ French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)