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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

dandle
verb pet; `the grandfather dandled the small child`

dandruff
noun loose scales shed from the scalp; `I could see the dandruff on her shoulders`

dandy
dude noun a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

Dane
noun a native or inhabitant of Denmark

danewort
Sambucus ebulus noun dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor

danger
noun a dangerous place; `He moved out of danger`

danger line
noun a line beyond which it is dangerous to go

danger zone
noun a dangerous area

dangerous
grave adjective causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; `a dangerous operation`; `a grave situation`; `a grave illness`; `grievous bodily harm`; `a serious wound`; `a serious turn of events`; `a severe case of pneumonia`; `a life-threatening disease`

dangerousness
noun the quality of not being safe

Dangla
Dangaleat noun a Chadic language spoken in Chad; uses seven vowels plus differences in vowel length

dangle
swing verb hang freely; `the ornaments dangled from the tree`; `The light dropped from the ceiling`

dangleberry
dangle-berry noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit

dangling modifier
misplaced modifier noun a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young` in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us`

dangling participle
noun a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country` in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view`

Daniel
Book of Daniel noun an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel Bernoulli
noun Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782)

Daniel Chester French
noun United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)

Daniel Morgan
noun soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)

Daniel Rutherford
noun British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)

Daniel Webster
noun United States politician and orator (1782-1817)

Danish
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes; `Danish furniture`

Danish blue
noun blue cheese of Denmark

Danish krone
noun the basic unit of money in Denmark

Danish monetary unit
noun monetary unit in Denmark

dankness
clamminess noun unpleasant wetness

danse macabre
dance of death noun a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave

danseur
danseur noble noun a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina

Dante
Dante Alighieri noun an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)

Dantean
Dantesque adjective of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings

Danton
Georges Jacques Danton noun French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794)

Danu
Dana noun Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann; identified with the Welsh Don

Danube
Danube River noun the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; `Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube`

Daoism
noun philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events

Daphne
noun (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo

Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier noun English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)

daphnia
noun minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae

dapper
dashing adjective marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; `a dapper young man`; `a jaunty red hat`

dapple-grey
dapple-gray noun grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings

dappled
mottled adjective having spots or patches of color

dapsone
noun antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases

Dar al-harb
House of War noun areas where Muslims are in the minority and are persecuted

Dar al-Islam
House of Islam noun areas where Muslims are in the majority

Dar es Salaam
capital of Tanzania noun the capital and largest port city of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean

daraf
noun a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad

Dard
Dardic noun any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan

Dardanelles
Dardanelles campaign noun the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks

dare
daring noun a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; `he could never refuse a dare`

daredevil
temerarious adjective presumptuously daring; `a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff`

daredevilry
daredeviltry noun boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior

Darfur
noun an impoverished region of western Sudan; `Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan`

Dari
Dari Persian noun an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan

daringly
adverb in an adventurous manner; `daringly, he set out on a camping trip in East Africa`

Darius I
Darius the Great noun king of Persia who expanded the empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the battle of Marathon (550-486 BC)

Darius III
noun king of Persia who was defeated by Alexander the Great; his murder effectively ended the Persian Empire (died in 330 BC)

Darjeeling
noun a fine variety of black tea grown in northern India

dark
dour adjective showing a brooding ill humor; `a dark scowl`; `the proverbially dour New England Puritan`; `a glum, hopeless shrug`; `he sat in moody silence`; `a morose and unsociable manner`; `a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius`- Bruce Bliven; `a sour temper`; `a sullen crowd`

dark adaptation
noun the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours

dark blue
navy noun a dark shade of blue

dark bread
whole wheat bread noun bread made with whole wheat flour

dark comedy
noun a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements

dark ground illumination
dark field illumination noun a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background

dark horse
noun a racehorse about which little is known

dark lantern
noun a lantern with a sliding panel to conceal the light

dark matter
noun (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the matter in the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force

dark red
noun a red color that reflects little light

dark-blue
adjective of a dark shade of blue

dark-colored
dark-coloured adjective having a dark color

dark-eyed junco
slate-colored junco noun common North American junco having grey plumage and eyes with dark brown irises

dark-fruited
adjective bearing dark fruit

dark-haired
black-haired adjective having hair of a dark color; `a dark-haired beauty`

dark-skinned
dusky adjective naturally having skin of a dark color; `a dark-skinned beauty`; `gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks`; `a smile on his swarthy face`; ``swart` is archaic`

dark-spotted
adjective having dark spots

darken
dim verb become or make darker; `The screen darkened`; `He darkened the colors by adding brown`

darkened
adjective become or made dark by lack of light; `a darkened house`; `the darkened theater`

darkening
adjective becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; `the darkening sky`

darkish
adjective slightly dark; `darkish red`

darkling beetle
darkling groung beetle noun sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

darkly
in darkness adverb without light; `the river was sliding darkly under the mist`

darkness
dark noun an unilluminated area; `he moved off into the darkness`

darkness
swarthiness noun a swarthy complexion

darkroom
noun a room in which photographs are developed

darky
darkie noun offensive term for Black people

darling
favorite noun a special loved one

darling pea
noun either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep

Darlingtonia
genus Darlingtonia noun one species: California pitcher plant

Darmera
genus Darmera noun one species

darmstadtium
Ds noun a radioactive transuranic element

darn
noun a euphemism for `damn`

darnel
tare 2 bearded darnel noun weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

darner
noun a person who mends by darning

darning
noun the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads

darning needle
embroidery needle noun a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread

Darrow
Clarence Darrow noun United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938)

Darsana
noun (from the Sanskrit word for `to see`) one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on the nature of reality and the release from bondage to karma

dart
noun a tapered tuck made in dressmaking

dart player
noun someone who plays the game of darts

dartboard
dart board noun a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts

darter
noun a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; `squirrels are darters`

Dartmouth College
Dartmouth noun a college in New Hampshire