6-letter words containing d
- adolph — a masculine name: equiv. L. Adolphus, Fr. Adolphe, Ger. Adolf
- adonai — a name for God
- adonic — (in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adoors — at the door; of the door
- adopts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adopt.
- adoral — Relating to or denoting the side or end where the mouth is situated, especially in animals, such as echinoderms, that lack clear upper and lower sides.
- adorbs — Informal. very cute; adorable.
- adored — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorer — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adores — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorno — Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adoula — Cyrille [see-ril] /siˈrɪl/ (Show IPA), 1922–78, African statesman: premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1961–64.
- adours — a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- adrate — the price or tariff that businesses pay to advertise
- adread — to dread
- adrian — Edgar Douglas, Baron Adrian. 1889–1977, English physiologist, noted particularly for his research into the function of neurons: shared with Sherrington the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine 1932
- adrift — If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.
- adroit — Someone who is adroit is quick and skilful in their thoughts, behaviour, or actions.
- adsorb — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick
- adsorp — (nonstandard) To adsorb.
- aduice — Obsolete spelling of advice.
- adults — Plural form of adult.
- advect — (of air, water) to move horizontally
- advene — to become part of or be added to something
- advent — In the Christian church, Advent is the period between Advent Sunday, the Sunday closest to the 30th of November, and Christmas Day.
- adverb — An adverb is a word such as 'slowly', 'now', 'very', 'politically', or 'fortunately' which adds information about the action, event, or situation mentioned in a clause.
- advert — An advert is an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about something such as a product, event, or job.
- advice — If you give someone advice, you tell them what you think they should do in a particular situation.
- advise — If you advise someone to do something, you tell them what you think they should do.
- adviso — (obsolete) information; advice; intelligence.
- advoke — To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
- advsys — (language, games) An adventure game language designed by David Betz in 1986. ADVSYS is object-oriented and Lisp-like.
- adware — a type of computer software that collects information about a user's browsing patterns in order to display relevant advertisements in his or her Web browser
- adygei — a member of a Circassian people of the Northwest Caucasus
- adytum — the most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibited
- adzing — an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
- adzuki — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus angularis, that has yellow flowers and pods containing edible brown seeds; widely cultivated as a food crop in China and Japan
- aedile — a magistrate of ancient Rome in charge of public works, games, buildings, and roads
- aedine — relating to mosquitoes of the genus Aedes
- aeneid — an epic poem in Latin by Virgil relating the experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy, written chiefly to provide an illustrious historical background for Rome
- aeried — located in a very high place
- afeard — frightened; afraid
- affied — Simple past tense and past participle of affy.
- afford — If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it.
- afield — away from one's usual surroundings or home (esp in the phrase far afield)
- afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- afroed — (of the hair) Styled into an afro.
- agadir — a port in SW Morocco, which became the centre of an international crisis (1911), when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests. Britain issued a strong warning to Germany but the French negotiated and war was averted. In 1960 the town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake, about 10 000 people being killed. Pop: 385 000 (2003)