| dosser | n. | homeless person | British | |
| dotard | n. | old senescent person | archaic | |
| dote | v. | to be foolish, especially due to old age | ||
| doublet | n. | close-fitting padded jacket worn by men, with or without sleeves | ||
| douceur | n. | bribe, financial sweetener | ||
| doughty | adj. | brave and resolute, valiant | ||
| doula | n. | trained woman assisting mother during and after childbirth | ||
| dour | adj. | sullen; stern | ||
| dower | n. | natural gift | ||
| dowp | n. | buttocks; butt end of a cigarette | Scots | |
| doxastic | adj. | of or related to belief or mere opinion | ||
| doxology | n. | short formula of words in praise of God | ||
| draegerman | n. | specially trained miner who is expert in underground rescue | ||
| drag hunt | n. | equestrian hunting in which hounds follow an artificial scent lain along a predetermined trail | ||
| draggle | v. | to soil by dragging through mire or wet grass; to make wet and dirty | ||
| dragonnade | n. | abandoning civilians to the pillaging of soldiers | ||
| dramaturge | n. | adviser to theater company about repertoire and public relations | ||
| draper | n. | maker of woolen cloth, cloth merchant; seller of dry goods | ||
| draughts | n. | checkers | British | |
| draw | n. | marijuana; bag of cannabis | slang | |
| dray | n. | low cart for heavy loads, esp. a beer cart; sledge, sled | ||
| dreck | n. | useless stuff; garbage | ||
| dree | v. | to endure | ||
| dressing bell | n. | bell rung as signal to begin dressing for dinner | ||
| drolatic | adj. | humorous, comically strange | ||
| drongo | n. | fool, dummy | slang | |
| drop a brick | v. | to commit a faux pas, usu. in speech | British | |
| dropsical | adj. | affected by swelling | ||
| dropsy | n. | old-fashioned word for edema, the often painful swelling of interstitial spaces in the body with fluid | ||
| droschky | n. | Russian four-wheeled open carriage | ||
| dross | n. | worthless matter, refuse | ||
| drugget | n. | coarse hair rug; coarse felted or woven woolen fabric | ||
| drumlin | n. | small elongated hills formed by glaciation | ||
| dubbin | n. | product used for conditioning leather | ||
| dubiety | n. | doubt, the state of being dubious | ||
| dug | n. | pap or udder | ||
| dulcify | v. | to sweeten; to mollify | ||
| dule tree | n. | gallows tree, mourning trees where gibbets were hung | Scots | |
| dun | v. | to importune for payment of a debt; to persistently demand or ask | ||
| dunch | n. | [golf] hit from sticky ground in which the ground is hit before the ball | ||
| Dundreary whiskers | n. | overly long bushy sideburns worn without a beard (called in England ‘Piccadilly weepers’) | ||
| duologue | n. | dialogue between two persons | ||
| duplicity | n. | deceitfulness; [archaic] state of being doubled | ||
| duppy | n. | malevolent spirit | ||
| durance | n. | imprisonment; [obsolete] duration; endurance | ||
| durbar | n. | public reception of Indian prince or high British official in India | ||
| dutch uncle | n. | overly critical person | ||
| duumvirate | n. | two persons having joint power over something; rule by two people | ||
| dweomer | n. | (fantasy gaming) (also seen as dwimmer) aura of magic (on an item, or from a spell), magic power or effect | ||
| dyadic | adj. | of or consisting of a group of two |
