4-letter words containing a, d
- dari — the local name for the dialect of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan
- dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
- darn — If you darn something knitted or made of cloth, you mend a hole in it by sewing stitches across the hole and then weaving stitches in and out of them.
- darr — (UK, dialect, Norfolk) A bird, the European black tern.
- dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
- dasd — Direct-Access Storage Device
- dase — Obsolete form of daze.
- dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- dasl — Datapoint's Advanced System Language. A cross between C and Pascal by Gene Hughes with custom features for Datapoint hardware (no stack). It is used internally by Datapoint.
- dass — (archaic) To dare.
- dast — Older Use. dare (def 1).
- data — You can refer to information as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
- date — A date is a specific time that can be named, for example a particular day or a particular year.
- dato — the chief of any of certain Muslim tribes in the Philippine Islands
- datu — dato.
- datv — digitally assisted television: a technique in which special digital signals are transmitted with an analogue picture signal to assist the receiver to display the picture to the best advantage
- daub — When you daub a substance such as mud or paint on something, you spread it on that thing in a rough or careless way.
- daud — a lump or chunk of something
- daut — to stroke, pet, or cuddle
- dave — David Warren ("Dave") 1920–2012, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- davy — Sir Humphry. 1778–1829, English chemist who isolated sodium, magnesium, chlorine, and other elements and suggested the electrical nature of chemical combination. He invented the Davy lamp
- dawd — a reverberating blow or punch
- dawg — Eye dialect of dog8; also 'hound dawg'.
- dawk — transportation by relays of people or horses, especially in the East Indies.
- dawn — Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
- daws — jackdaw.
- dawt — (Scottish) To fondle or caress.
- daye — Archaic spelling of day.
- days — during the day, esp regularly
- daze — If someone is in a daze, they are feeling confused and unable to think clearly, often because they have had a shock or surprise.
- dazy — In a dazed condition.
- dcac — Domestic Communications Assistance Center
- dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
- deaf — Someone who is deaf is unable to hear anything or is unable to hear very well.
- deak — Ferenc (ˈferents). 1803–76, Hungarian statesman: minister of justice following the 1848 Hungarian uprising. The Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy was largely his creation
- deal — If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
- dean — A dean is an important official at a university or college.
- dear — You use dear to describe someone or something that you feel affection for.
- deas — (Scotland) Alternative form of dais.
- deva — (in Hinduism and Buddhism) a divine being or god
- dhak — a tropical Asian leguminous tree, Butea frondosa, that has bright red flowers and yields a red resin, used as an astringent
- dhal — a tropical African and Asian leguminous shrub, Cajanus cajan, cultivated in tropical regions for its nutritious pealike seeds
- dhea — dehydroisoandrosterone: the major androgen precursor in females, secreted by the adrenal cortex
- dia- — through, throughout, or during
- diag — Diagnosis/diagnostic.
- dial — A dial is the part of a machine or instrument such as a clock or watch which shows you the time or a measurement that has been recorded.
- diam — Alternative form of diam.
- dias — Bartholomeu (ˌbərtuluˈmeu). ?1450–1500, Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Europe to the East via the Cape of Good Hope (1488)
- diaz — Cameron. born 1972, US film actress; films include The Mask (1994), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Gangs of New York (2003)
- dika — A West African food made from the almond-like seeds of Irvingia barteri.