| Dacron |
trademark for a synthetic, wrinkle-resistant polyester fiber or fabric. |
| dactyl |
in prosody, a metrical unit consisting of one accented or long syllable followed by two unaccented or short syllables, as in the words "syllable" and "honesty". [2 definitions] |
| dactylography |
the study of fingerprints as a basis for identification. |
| dad |
(informal) father. |
| dada |
(sometimes cap.) a primarily European literary and artistic period of the early twentieth century characterized by cynicism, anarchy, and a rejection of convention. |
| daddy |
(informal) father. |
| daddy-longlegs |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) any of various spiderlike arachnids that have a small, rounded body and extremely long, thin legs; harvestman. |
| dado |
in architecture, the section of a pedestal between the top and bottom moldings. [3 definitions] |
| Daedalus |
in Greek mythology, an artist who made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from the Labyrinth in Crete. |
| daemon |
a god or secondary deity. [3 definitions] |
| daffodil |
a plant with bell-shaped, usu. yellow flowers on tall stems. [2 definitions] |
| daffy |
(informal) silly, foolish, crazy, or weak-minded in mood or temperament. |
| daft |
lacking good sense; insane; witless. [2 definitions] |
| dagger |
a short, pointed, swordlike weapon with two sharp edges. [3 definitions] |
| dago |
(offensive slang) a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish descent. |
| daguerreotype |
an early process of photography that used a silvered metal plate rather than film. [2 definitions] |
| Dagwood sandwich |
(informal) a many-layered, ludicrously large sandwich with a wide variety of fillings. |
| dahlia |
any of several garden plants having tuberous roots and large showy flowers in a variety of colors. [2 definitions] |
| dahoon |
an evergreen shrub or low tree that bears red berries and is grown in the southeastern United States as a hedge. |
| daikon |
a large white Japanese radish. |
| Dail Eireann |
the lower house of parliament in the Republic of Ireland. |