English words from Middle English
- dissimulateTo practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
- disslanderSlander.
- distemperateImmoderate, excessive.
- distrainTo squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
- distroubleTo trouble greatly; to perplex.
- disworshipA deprivation of honour or cause of disgrace.
- ditchwaterThe stagnant water that collects in a ditch.
- divineressA female diviner.
- divulgateTo divulge.
- dizeTo dress with flax for spinning, as a distaff; dizen.
- dizenTo dress with flax for spinning.
- doctrixA female doctor, chiefly a physician.
- dogfennelAnthemis cotula, an annual plant native to Europe and North Africa.
- dogflyA bloodsucking fly, Stomoxys calcitrans; stablefly.
- dog-foxA male fox.
- doggishResembling or characteristic of a dog.
- doglyOf, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.
- dog's tongueThe plant hound's tongue.
- dogtrotA steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
- doitedAfflicted with weak-mindedness, usually caused by senility
- dolefullyIn a doleful manner
- dolefulnessThe characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- dolentSad, sorrowful.
- dolorouslyIn a dolorous manner.
- dolosityDeceitfulness, hidden malice.
- dolourAnguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
- -domForms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.
- Domesday BookOne of the volumes of the Domesday Book.
- doomerA doom-and-gloomer; a pessimist.
- doomsmanOne who renders judgement (e.g. a judge, magistrate, or arbiter); an umpire.
- doorlessWithout a door.
- doornailA nail with a wide head, traditionally used in the construction and ornamentation of wooden doors.
- dotardAn old person with impaired intellect; a senile person; one in their dotage.
- dotationThe act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.
- dottleA plug or tap of a vessel.
- doublenessThe state of being double or doubled.
- double-tonguedSaying one thing to one person and something different to another; double talking; deceitful in speech.
- double-uThe name of the Latin script letter W/w.
- doubtableCapable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
- doubtancedoubt; uncertainty
- doubtfulnessThe state or quality of being doubtful; doubt; uncertainty.
- doubtyDubious, doubtful.
- doughtPower, strength, ability.
- doughtinessThe quality of being doughty.
- douthVirtue; excellence; atheldom; nobility; power; riches.
- douzeperOne of the legendary “twelve peers” or renowned warriors of Charlemagne, the Emperor of the Romans from 800 to 814.
- dovehouseA dovecote.
- dovelyOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dove; dovelike.
- dowfDull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.
- do what you willGranting permission for a person to do whatever they want.
- down-Decrease.
- downbearTo bear, bring or carry down.
- downtreadTo oppress, persecute, or subjugate.
- draffA byproduct from a brewery, a distillery, or both, often fed to pigs or cattle as part of their ration; often synonymous with distillers' grains, brewers' spent grains, or both (when not differentiated); usually differentiated from potale, at least in technical use, although broad, nontechnical use has often lumped all such byproducts together, especially in the past.
- dragonetA small dragon.
- drailA hook with a lead shank.
- draw bloodTo wound one's opponent in such a way that they bleed.
- drawkRyegrass, darnel, cockle, tare, or wild oats.
- drawthThe act or process of drawing; a pull; draught.
- dreadfulnessThe characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadlessFeeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
- dreadlydreadful
- dreadnessQuality of being dread.
- dreadyCharacterised by dread.
- dreariheadsadness; dreariness
- dreaveTo drive; drive out; drive away; expel.
- dreelyHighly; largely; nobly; earnestly.
- dressableCapable of being dressed in clothes.
- dretchTo vex; grill; trouble; oppress.
- dreveTo trouble; afflict; make anxious.
- dribTo cut off; chop off.
- drightA multitude; army; host.
- drink hailThe customary old English reply to a drinking pledge or wassail.
- drinkleTo drink (an alcoholic beverage); also, to cause (someone) to drink such a beverage; to drench; to drown.
- drinklessWithout a drink, without drinks.
- driteTo defecate.
- droffTurbid.
- dropmealOne drop at a time, drop by drop.
- drowseTo make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- drublymuddy; dark; turbid
- dubitationThe process of doubting or the state of being in doubt; hesitation, uncertainty.
- due processA legal concept where a person is ensured all legal rights when deprived of their liberty for a given reason.
- dulcorateTo sweeten (literal or figurative).
- dulcourSweetness, agreeability, pleasantness; dulcitude, dulcity; suavitude, suavity.
- dullishSomewhat dull; dull to a degree.
- dunchTo knock against; to hit, punch
- dung heapA mound of animal droppings for agricultural use.
- durgySmall; undersized.
- dushTo strike or push violently; (of an animal) to strike with the horns; butt.
- dusknessduskiness
- dwaleBelladonna or a similar soporific plant.
- dwimmerMagic, magic arts; sorcery; spell; occult art.
- dwimmercraftThe art of illusion; the art of magic; sorcery; magic.
- dwineTo wither, decline, pine away.
- dyscrasyA bodily disorder; an imbalance of the humours
- -eUsed for archaizing.
- each otherTo one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects
- earablearable; tillable
- ear fingerThe little finger.
- earholeThe outer aperture of the ear; the entrance to the ear canal.