1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: {five hundred}, {500}] n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: {vitamin D}, {calciferol}, {viosterol}, {ergocalciferol}, {c...

1: a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or ...

1: the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves [syn: {D-layer}]

1: English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901) [syn: {Richard D'Oyly Carte}]

1: day of the allied landing in France, World War II [syn: {6 June 1944}]

1: the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves [syn: {D region}]

1: English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) [syn: {Lawrence}, {David Herbert Lawrence}]

1: United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948) [syn: {Griffith}, {David Lewelyn Wark Griffith}]

1: the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the nation's capital and carve out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia [syn: {District of Col...

1: abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room

1: a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948; involved in state-sponsored terrorism [syn: {North Korea}, {Democratic People's Republic of Korea}, {DPRK}]

1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn: {district attorney}]

1: Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524) [syn: {Vasco da Gamma}, {Ga...

1: Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519) [syn: {Leonardo}, {Leonardo da Vinci}]

1: missionary work for Islam [syn: {dawah}]

1: a light touch or stroke [syn: {tap}, {pat}] 2: a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud" [syn: {splash}, {splatter}] v 1: apply (usually a liquid) to a surf...

1: a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad [syn: {Kola}, {Musgoi}]

{dab}

{dab}

1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid 2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: {paddle}, {splash around}] 3: work with in a non-serious manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He pl...

1: covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: {spattered}, {spla...

1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: {dilettante}, {sciolist}] 2: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and ...

1: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling [syn: {dabbler}] [ant: {diving duck}]

1: small European grebe [syn: {little grebe}, {Podiceps ruficollis}]

1: a dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae [syn: {genus Daboecia}]

1: low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple [syn: {Connemara heath}, {St. Dabeoc's heath}]

1: the capital and largest city of Bangladesh [syn: {Dhaka}, {capital of Bangladesh}]

1: small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body [syn: {Leuciscus leuciscus}]

1: Australasian kingfishers [syn: {genus Dacelo}]

1: Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry [syn: {kookaburra}, {laughing jackass}]

1: Russian country house

1: a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany

1: small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows [syn: {dachsie}, {badger dog}]

1: small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows [syn: {dachshund}, {badger dog}]

1: a gray volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals

1: relating to or consisting of dacite; "dacitic magma is highly viscous"

1: the honeycreepers [syn: {Coerebidae}, {family Coerebidae}, {family Dacninae}]

1: a member of an armed gang of robbers [syn: {dakoit}]

1: robbery by a gang of armed dacoits [syn: {dakoity}]

1: low-growing to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand [syn: {mountain rimu}, {Lepidothamnus laxifolius}]

1: a kind of polyester fabric [syn: {Terylene}]

1: evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines [syn: {genus Dacrycarpus}]

1: New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood [syn: {kahikatea}, {New Zealand Dacryberry}, {New Zealand white pine}, {Podocarpus dacrydioides}]

1: Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs [syn: {genus Dacrydium}]

1: New Zealand shrub [syn: {tarwood}, {tar-wood}, {New Zealand mountain pine}, {Halocarpus bidwilli}]

1: New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes [syn: {tarwood}, {tar-wood}]

1: tall New Zealand timber tree [syn: {rimu}, {imou pine}, {red pine}]

1: Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium [syn: {huon pine}, {Lagarostrobus franklinii}]

1: type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa [syn: {genus Dacrymyces}]

1: a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa [syn: {family Dacrymycetaceae}]

1: either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands [syn: {lacrimal sac}, {tear sac}]

1: inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose

1: the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone

1: a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables 2: a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates [syn: {digit}]

1: of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"

1: a monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species) [syn: {genus Dactylis}]

1: widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass [syn: {orchard grass}, {cocksfoot}, {cockspur}]

1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae [syn: {genus Dactyloctenium}]

1: a creeping grass with spikes like fingers [syn: {Egyptian grass}, {crowfoot grass}]

1: abnormally large fingers or toes

1: cochineal insects [syn: {family Dactylopiidae}]

1: type genus of the Dactylopiidae [syn: {genus Dactylopius}]

1: Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye [syn: {cochineal insect}, {cochineal}]

1: flying gurnards [syn: {family Dactylopteridae}]

1: a genus of Dactylopteridae [syn: {genus Dactylopterus}]

1: genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa [syn: {genus Dactylorhiza}]

1: European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple [syn: {common spotted orchid}, {Dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii}]

1: European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple [syn: {common spotted orchid}, {Dactylorhiza fuchsii}]

1: sand stargazers [syn: {family Dactyloscopidae}]

1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dada}, {daddy}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa}, {pater}, {pop}]

1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dad}, {daddy}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa}, {pater}, {pop}] 2: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in ...

1: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty [syn: {dada}]

1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dad}, {dada}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa}, {pater}, {pop}]

1: long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite [syn: {crane fly}] 2: spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: {harvestman}, {Phalangium...

1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest [syn: {wainscot}] 2: the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase 3: a rectangular groov...

1: a plane for making a dado groove

{dado}

1: complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature" n : (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos; to escape the Labyrinth he fashioned wings for ...

1: (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos; to escape the Labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his sone Icarus [syn: {Daedal}]

1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {demon}, {daimon}] 2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: {demigod}]

{daffy}

{daffy}

1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria [syn: {Ron}, {Bokkos}]

1: any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown [syn: {Narcissus pseudonarcissus}]

1: European onion with white flowers [syn: {flowering onion}, {Naples garlic}, {Allium neopolitanum}]

1: little known Kamarupan languages [syn: {Miri}, {Mirish}, {Abor}]

1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire},...

1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: {dottily}, {balmily}, {nuttily}, {wackily}]

1: informal terms for insanity [syn: {craziness}, {flakiness}]

1: 10 grams [syn: {dekagram}, {decagram}, {dkg}] 2: a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing [syn: {jag}] [also: {dagging}, {dagged}]

1: Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peace-keeping matters (1905-1961) [syn: {Hammarskjold}, {Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold}]

1: Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peace-keeping matters (1905-1961) [syn: {Hammarskjold}, {Dag Hammarskjold}]

1: source of a tough elastic wood [syn: {lemonwood tree}, {Calycophyllum candidissimum}]

1: god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon

1: chief Celtic god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit

1: an ethnic minority living on the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia and Azerbaijan

1: relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco [syn: {Cape dagga}, {red dagga}, {wilde dagga}, {Leonotis leonurus}]

{dag}

1: a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: {sticker}] 2: a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote [syn: {obelisk}]

1: North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds [syn: {Christmas fern}, {canker brake}, {evergreen wood fern}, {Polystichum acrostichoides}]

1: a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel

{dag}

1: offensive terms for a person of Italian descent [syn: {wop}, {Guinea}, {greaseball}] [also: {dagoes} (pl)]

{dago}

1: god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines

1: French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851) [syn: {Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre}]

1: a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor

1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: {dash}]

1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: {pigeon pea}, {pigeon-pea plant}, {cajan pea}, {catjang pea}, {red gram}, {dhal}, {Cajanus cajan}] ...

1: any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and...

1: any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and...

1: a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control [syn: {Benin}, {Republic of Benin}]

1: radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked [syn: {Japanese radish}, {Raphanus sativus longipinnatus}]

1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Free State [syn: {Dail Eireann}]

1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Free State [syn: {Dail}]

1: occurring or done each day; "a daily record"; "day-by-day labors of thousands of men and women"- H.S.Truman; "her day-after-day behavior"; "an every day occurrence" [syn: {day-to-day}, {day-after-d...

1: any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: {sundew}, {sundew plant}]

1: a single bet on two horse races in the same day

1: the usual activities in your day; "the doctor made his rounds" [syn: {round}]

1: fluctuations that occur between one day and the next

1: German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900) [syn: {Gottlieb Daimler}]

1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {demon}, {daemon}]

{dainty}

{dainty}

1: in a refined manner; "she nibbled daintily at her cake" 2: in a delicate manner; "the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold"

1: the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" [syn: {delicacy}, {fineness}]

1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: {mincing}, {niminy-piminy}, {prim}, {twee}] 2: of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo" [syn: {exquisite}] 3: especially plea...

1: a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice [syn: {rum cocktail}]

1: a farm where dairy products are produced [syn: {dairy farm}]

1: cattle that are reared for their milk [syn: {dairy cow}, {milch cow}, {milk cow}, {milcher}, {milker}]

1: cattle that are reared for their milk [syn: {dairy cattle}, {milch cow}, {milk cow}, {milcher}, {milker}]

1: a farm where dairy products are produced [syn: {dairy}]

1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: {dairyman}]

1: the business of a dairy [syn: {dairying}]

1: milk and butter and cheese

1: the business of a dairy [syn: {dairy farming}]

1: a woman who works in a dairy [syn: {milkmaid}]

1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: {dairy farmer}] 2: a man who works in a diary

1: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: {podium}, {pulpit}, {rostrum}, {ambo}, {stump}, {soapbox}]

1: a loose and brightly colored African shirt [syn: {dashiki}]

1: any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl

1: any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purpl...

1: (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences 2: flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems; worn by students on class day at some schools

1: a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles [syn: {fra...

1: widely naturalized white-flowered North American herb [syn: {Erigeron annuus}]

1: a wheel around which is a set of print characters that make a typing impression on paper [syn: {daisy wheel}]

1: a wheel around which is a set of print characters that make a typing impression on paper [syn: {daisy print wheel}]

1: any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purpl...

1: connect devices on a part of a chip or circuit board in a computer

1: of North America and Eurasia [syn: {daisyleaf grape fern}, {Botrychium matricariifolium}]

1: any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purpl...

1: of North America and Eurasia [syn: {daisy-leaved grape fern}, {Botrychium matricariifolium}]

1: resembling a daisy

1: a printer that uses a daisy print wheel

1: East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye [syn: {dhak}, {palas}, {Butea frondosa}, {Butea monosperma}]

1: the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal [syn: {capital of Senegal}]

1: a member of an armed gang of robbers [syn: {dacoit}]

1: robbery by a gang of armed dacoits [syn: {dacoity}]

1: a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux 2: the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota 3: the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota pe...

1: a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters [syn: {dekaliter}, {dekalitre}, {decaliter}, {decalitre}, {dkl}]

1: chief lama and once ruler of Tibet [syn: {Grand Lama}]

1: the basic unit of money in Gambia

1: large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers [syn: {genus Dalbergia}]

1: Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood [syn: {kingwood}, {kingwood tree}]

1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn: {Indian blackwood}, {East Indian rosewood}, {East India rosewood}, {Indian rosewood}]

1: an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: {Brazilian rosewood}, {caviuna wood}, {jacaranda}]

1: a valuable timber tree of tropical South America [syn: {cocobolo}]

1: East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties [syn: {sissoo}, {sissu}, {sisham}]

1: Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood [syn: {Honduras rosewood}]

1: an open river valley (in a hilly area)

1: United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955) [syn: {Carnegie}]

1: indigo bush [syn: {genus Dalea}]

1: grayish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States nd Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored hone...

1: a person who lives in the dales of northern England

1: the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

1: surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989) [syn: {Salvidor Dali}]

1: large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska [syn: {Dall's sheep}, {white sheep}, {Ovis montana dalli}]

1: large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska [syn: {Dall sheep}, {white sheep}, {Ovis montana dalli}]

1: a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields

1: the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn: {dawdling}, {trifling}, {wasting time}] 2: playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: {flirt}, {flirting}, {flirtation}, {...

{dally}

1: someone who wastes time [syn: {dillydallier}, {dilly-dallier}, {mope}, {lounger}]

1: tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States [syn: {dallisgrass}, {paspalum}, {Paspalum dilatatum}]

1: tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States [syn: {dallis grass}, {paspalum}, {Paspalum dilatatum}]

1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: {toy}, {play}, {flirt}] 2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: {dawdle}] 3: talk or behave amorously, wit...

1: tranquilizer (trade name Dalmane) used to treat insomnia [syn: {flurazepam}, {flurazepam hydrochloride}]

1: a historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea; mountainous with many islands

1: white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: {pyrethrum}, {Dalmatian pyrethr...

1: of or relating to Dalmatia or its inhabitants n 1: a native or inhabitant of Dalmatia 2: a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia [syn: {coach dog}...

1: European iris having soft lilac-blue flowers [syn: {Iris pallida}]

1: erect shrub having large trifoliate leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers followed by poisonous seeds; Yugoslavia; sometimes placed in genus Cytisus [syn: {Petteria ramentacea}, {Cytisus rame...

1: white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: {pyrethrum}, {Dalmatia pyrethru...

1: herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves [syn: {taro}, {taro plant}, {dasheen}, {Colocasia es...

1: English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844) [syn: {John Dalton}]

1: United States screenwriter who was blacklisted and imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with congressional investigations of communism in America (1905-1976) [syn: {Trumbo}]

1: (chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple re...

1: (chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture; the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals th...

1: dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red [syn: {deuteranopia}, {green-blindness}]

1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: {dike}, {dyke}, {levee}] 2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: {decameter}, {dekameter}, {decametre}, ...

1: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" [syn: {dam}]