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...

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 ...

1: the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves [syn: {D-layer}]

1: English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901) [syn: {Richard D'Oyly Carte}]

1: day of the allied landing in France, World War II [syn: {6 June 1944}]

1: the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves [syn: {D region}]

1: English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) [syn: {Lawrence}, {David Herbert Lawrence}]

1: United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948) [syn: {Griffith}, {David Lewelyn Wark Griffith}]

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...

1: abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room

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}]

1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn: {district attorney}]

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...

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}]

1: missionary work for Islam [syn: {dawah}]

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...

1: a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad [syn: {Kola}, {Musgoi}]

{dab}

{dab}

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...

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...

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 ...

1: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling [syn: {dabbler}] [ant: {diving duck}]

1: small European grebe [syn: {little grebe}, {Podiceps ruficollis}]

1: a dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae [syn: {genus Daboecia}]

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}]

1: the capital and largest city of Bangladesh [syn: {Dhaka}, {capital of Bangladesh}]

1: small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body [syn: {Leuciscus leuciscus}]

1: Australasian kingfishers [syn: {genus Dacelo}]

1: Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry [syn: {kookaburra}, {laughing jackass}]

1: Russian country house

1: a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany

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}]

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}]

1: a gray volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals

1: relating to or consisting of dacite; "dacitic magma is highly viscous"

1: the honeycreepers [syn: {Coerebidae}, {family Coerebidae}, {family Dacninae}]

1: a member of an armed gang of robbers [syn: {dakoit}]

1: robbery by a gang of armed dacoits [syn: {dakoity}]

1: low-growing to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand [syn: {mountain rimu}, {Lepidothamnus laxifolius}]

1: a kind of polyester fabric [syn: {Terylene}]

1: evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines [syn: {genus Dacrycarpus}]

1: New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood [syn: {kahikatea}, {New Zealand Dacryberry}, {New Zealand white pine}, {Podocarpus dacrydioides}]

1: Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs [syn: {genus Dacrydium}]

1: New Zealand shrub [syn: {tarwood}, {tar-wood}, {New Zealand mountain pine}, {Halocarpus bidwilli}]

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}]

1: tall New Zealand timber tree [syn: {rimu}, {imou pine}, {red pine}]

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}]

1: type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa [syn: {genus Dacrymyces}]

1: a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa [syn: {family Dacrymycetaceae}]

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}]

1: inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose

1: the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone

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}]

1: of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"

1: a monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species) [syn: {genus Dactylis}]

1: widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass [syn: {orchard grass}, {cocksfoot}, {cockspur}]

1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae [syn: {genus Dactyloctenium}]

1: a creeping grass with spikes like fingers [syn: {Egyptian grass}, {crowfoot grass}]

1: abnormally large fingers or toes

1: cochineal insects [syn: {family Dactylopiidae}]

1: type genus of the Dactylopiidae [syn: {genus Dactylopius}]

1: Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye [syn: {cochineal insect}, {cochineal}]

1: flying gurnards [syn: {family Dactylopteridae}]

1: a genus of Dactylopteridae [syn: {genus Dactylopterus}]

1: genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa [syn: {genus Dactylorhiza}]

1: European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple [syn: {common spotted orchid}, {Dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii}]

1: European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple [syn: {common spotted orchid}, {Dactylorhiza fuchsii}]

1: sand stargazers [syn: {family Dactyloscopidae}]

1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dada}, {daddy}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa}, {pater}, {pop}]

1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dad}, {daddy}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa}, {pater}, {pop}] 2: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in ...

1: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty [syn: {dada}]

1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: {dad}, {dada}, {pa}, {papa}, {pappa}, {pater}, {pop}]

1: long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite [syn: {crane fly}] 2: spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: {harvestman}, {Phalangium...

1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest [syn: {wainscot}] 2: the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase 3: a rectangular groov...

1: a plane for making a dado groove

{dado}

1: complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature" n : (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos; to escape the Labyrinth he fashioned wings for ...

1: (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos; to escape the Labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his sone Icarus [syn: {Daedal}]

1: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: {devil}, {fiend}, {demon}, {daimon}] 2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: {demigod}]

{daffy}

{daffy}

1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria [syn: {Ron}, {Bokkos}]

1: any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown [syn: {Narcissus pseudonarcissus}]

1: European onion with white flowers [syn: {flowering onion}, {Naples garlic}, {Allium neopolitanum}]

1: little known Kamarupan languages [syn: {Miri}, {Mirish}, {Abor}]

1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire},...

1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: {dottily}, {balmily}, {nuttily}, {wackily}]

1: informal terms for insanity [syn: {craziness}, {flakiness}]

1: 10 grams [syn: {dekagram}, {decagram}, {dkg}] 2: a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing [syn: {jag}] [also: {dagging}, {dagged}]

1: Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peace-keeping matters (1905-1961) [syn: {Hammarskjold}, {Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold}]

1: Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peace-keeping matters (1905-1961) [syn: {Hammarskjold}, {Dag Hammarskjold}]

1: source of a tough elastic wood [syn: {lemonwood tree}, {Calycophyllum candidissimum}]

1: god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon

1: chief Celtic god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit

1: an ethnic minority living on the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia and Azerbaijan

1: relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco [syn: {Cape dagga}, {red dagga}, {wilde dagga}, {Leonotis leonurus}]

{dag}

1: a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: {sticker}] 2: a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote [syn: {obelisk}]

1: North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds [syn: {Christmas fern}, {canker brake}, {evergreen wood fern}, {Polystichum acrostichoides}]

1: a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel

{dag}

1: offensive terms for a person of Italian descent [syn: {wop}, {Guinea}, {greaseball}] [also: {dagoes} (pl)]

{dago}

1: god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines

1: French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851) [syn: {Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre}]

1: a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor

1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: {dash}]

1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: {pigeon pea}, {pigeon-pea plant}, {cajan pea}, {catjang pea}, {red gram}, {dhal}, {Cajanus cajan}] ...

1: any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and...

1: any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and...

1: a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control [syn: {Benin}, {Republic of Benin}]

1: radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked [syn: {Japanese radish}, {Raphanus sativus longipinnatus}]

1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Free State [syn: {Dail Eireann}]

1: the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Free State [syn: {Dail}]

1: occurring or done each day; "a daily record"; "day-by-day labors of thousands of men and women"- H.S.Truman; "her day-after-day behavior"; "an every day occurrence" [syn: {day-to-day}, {day-after-d...

1: any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: {sundew}, {sundew plant}]

1: a single bet on two horse races in the same day

1: the usual activities in your day; "the doctor made his rounds" [syn: {round}]

1: fluctuations that occur between one day and the next