9-letter words starting with da
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- day coach — an ordinary railroad passenger car, as distinguished from a sleeping car, parlor car, or other deluxe accommodations.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- dayspring — the dawn
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- dazedness — the condition of being dazed