d
1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: {five hundred}, {500}] n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: {vitamin D}, {calciferol}, {viosterol}, {ergocalciferol}, {c...
D and C
1: a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or ...
D region
1: the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves [syn: {D-layer}]
D'Oyly Carte
1: English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901) [syn: {Richard D'Oyly Carte}]
D-day
1: day of the allied landing in France, World War II [syn: {6 June 1944}]
D-layer
1: the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves [syn: {D region}]
D. H. Lawrence
1: English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) [syn: {Lawrence}, {David Herbert Lawrence}]
D. W. Griffith
1: United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948) [syn: {Griffith}, {David Lewelyn Wark Griffith}]
D.C.
1: the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the nation's capital and carve out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia [syn: {District of Col...
d.o.a.
1: abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room
D.P.R.K.
1: a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948; involved in state-sponsored terrorism [syn: {North Korea}, {Democratic People's Republic of Korea}, {DPRK}]
DA
1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn: {district attorney}]
da Gamma
1: Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524) [syn: {Vasco da Gamma}, {Ga...
da Vinci
1: Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519) [syn: {Leonardo}, {Leonardo da Vinci}]
da'wah
1: missionary work for Islam [syn: {dawah}]
dab
1: a light touch or stroke [syn: {tap}, {pat}] 2: a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud" [syn: {splash}, {splatter}] v 1: apply (usually a liquid) to a surf...
Daba
1: a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad [syn: {Kola}, {Musgoi}]
dabble
1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid 2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: {paddle}, {splash around}] 3: work with in a non-serious manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He pl...
dabbled
1: covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: {spattered}, {spla...
dabbler
1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: {dilettante}, {sciolist}] 2: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and ...
dabbling duck
1: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling [syn: {dabbler}] [ant: {diving duck}]
dabchick
1: small European grebe [syn: {little grebe}, {Podiceps ruficollis}]
Daboecia
1: a dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae [syn: {genus Daboecia}]
Daboecia cantabrica
1: low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple [syn: {Connemara heath}, {St. Dabeoc's heath}]
Dacca
1: the capital and largest city of Bangladesh [syn: {Dhaka}, {capital of Bangladesh}]
dace
1: small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body [syn: {Leuciscus leuciscus}]
Dacelo
1: Australasian kingfishers [syn: {genus Dacelo}]
Dacelo gigas
1: Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry [syn: {kookaburra}, {laughing jackass}]
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dacha
1: Russian country house
Dachau
1: a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany
dachshund
1: small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows [syn: {dachsie}, {badger dog}]
dachsie
1: small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows [syn: {dachshund}, {badger dog}]
dacite
1: a gray volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals
dacitic
1: relating to or consisting of dacite; "dacitic magma is highly viscous"
Dacninae
1: the honeycreepers [syn: {Coerebidae}, {family Coerebidae}, {family Dacninae}]
dacoit
1: a member of an armed gang of robbers [syn: {dakoit}]
dacoity
1: robbery by a gang of armed dacoits [syn: {dakoity}]
Dacridium laxifolius
1: low-growing to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand [syn: {mountain rimu}, {Lepidothamnus laxifolius}]
Dacron
1: a kind of polyester fabric [syn: {Terylene}]
Dacrycarpus
1: evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines [syn: {genus Dacrycarpus}]
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
1: New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood [syn: {kahikatea}, {New Zealand Dacryberry}, {New Zealand white pine}, {Podocarpus dacrydioides}]
Dacrydium
1: Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs [syn: {genus Dacrydium}]
Dacrydium bidwilli
1: New Zealand shrub [syn: {tarwood}, {tar-wood}, {New Zealand mountain pine}, {Halocarpus bidwilli}]
Dacrydium colensoi
1: New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes [syn: {tarwood}, {tar-wood}]
Dacrydium franklinii
1: Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium [syn: {huon pine}, {Lagarostrobus franklinii}]
Dacrymyces
1: type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa [syn: {genus Dacrymyces}]
Dacrymycetaceae
1: a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa [syn: {family Dacrymycetaceae}]
dacryocyst
1: either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands [syn: {lacrimal sac}, {tear sac}]
dacryocystitis
1: inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose
dacryon
1: the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone
dactyl
1: a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables 2: a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates [syn: {digit}]
dactylic
1: of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"
Dactylis
1: a monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species) [syn: {genus Dactylis}]
Dactylis glomerata
1: widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass [syn: {orchard grass}, {cocksfoot}, {cockspur}]
Dactyloctenium
1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae [syn: {genus Dactyloctenium}]
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