| diffident | adj. | lacking confidence in one’s capability; timid | ||
| dight | v. | to dress | archaic | |
| diligence | n. | public stagecoach of early 18th Century, esp. in France | ||
| diluvial | adj. | of or related to flooding or floods, esp. to the Biblical flood | ||
| diminuendo | adv. | gradually decreasing in loudness | ||
| dimity | n. | stout thin cotton fabric, with raised stripes | ||
| dindle | v. | to tingle; to tremble | ||
| dingle | n. | wooded valley | ||
| dingle | adj. | clement, having nice weather | ||
| dioecious | adj. | having male and female sex organs in separate individuals (esp. of plants) | biology | |
| diplopia | n. | double vision | ||
| dirndl | n. | outfit patterned after that of Alps peasants, consisting of a bodice over a low-cut blouse with a full skirt and (possibly) an apron | ||
| disadorned | adj. | bereft of ornaments | ||
| disanalogy | n. | inaptness or lack of analogy between two things; failure of an analogy | ||
| disannul | v. | to abolish, to cancel utterly | ||
| disbound | adj. | (of a book) having the binding removed or loose | ||
| discalced | adj. | shoeless | ||
| discectomy | n. | cutting out part or all of a spinal disc | ||
| discerption | n. | pulling or tearing into separate pieces, rending | ||
| discobolus | n. | discus thrower; statue of same | ||
| dish | v. | (obsolete) to ‘do for’; to cheat | slang | |
| disherison | n. | act of disinheriting | archaic | |
| disjoint | v. | to dislocate, dismember; to derange | ||
| dislimn | v. | to efface the outlines of, to make indistinct | ||
| dispart | v. | to separate into parts; to cleave | ||
| dispositive | adj. | relating to settlement or disposition | ||
| dispreader | n. | one who spreads or disseminates (something) | archaic | |
| dissensus | n. | widespread disagreement or dissension | ||
| dissimulate | v. | dissemble, conceal (one’s true motives, appearance, etc.) | ||
| dissipate | v. | to disperse; to squander, to waste; to lose energy through conversion to heat | ||
| dissolute | adj. | debauched, licentious, morally lax | ||
| distaff | n. | stave used to hold unspun fiber during spinning; women; female side of a family; female heir | ||
| distemper | v. | to paint with distemper, a paint using glue or size instead of oil as base; [British] to whitewash | ||
| distrain | v. | to compel performance of some obligation by seizure of good, etc. | law | |
| distrait | adj. | distracted, absent-minded | ||
| dithyrambic | adj. | extremely excited or emotional, frenzied, impassioned | ||
| diuturnity | n. | state of lasting for a very long time | ||
| divagate | v. | to wander or stray from place to place, or subject to subject | ||
| divaricate | v. | to spread apart, to diverge | ||
| dividers | n. | compass used to measure or divide lines on a map or plan | ||
| dividual | adj. | separate; divisible | ||
| dixie | n. | large cooking pot | British | |
| djellabah | n. | loose hooded cloak worn by both sexes in the Maghreb (also djellaba, gallabiah, galabia) | ||
| doab | n. | tongue of low-lying land between two rivers which join, esp. that between the Ganges and the Yamuna | ||
| dob | v. | to inform on someone, to tell authorities of another’s wrongdoing; to be selected for an unwanted job | slang | |
| dobbin | n. | ordinary farm horse | ||
| docetism | n. | doctrine which holds that Jesus had no material existence, rendering his bodily suffering only apparent | ||
| doctress | n. | female doctor, female healer | ||
| dodder | v. | to shake, to tremble | ||
| doddered | adj. | infirm; having lost most branches due to decay or age |
