English words from Middle English
- delightableDelightful.
- delightousdelightful
- demi-partial
- demonstrancedemonstration; proof
- denaryAn ancient coin, the denarius.
- departitionseparation
- depauperateHaving stunted growth
- deperishTo waste away; to deteriorate.
- depopulatorA person who depopulates an area, especially one who forcibly removes people from an estate.
- depraveTo speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
- de profundisFrom deep feelings of misery or despair.
- deraignTo prove or refute, especially through combat.
- des-A removal of a group from a molecule.
- descensionDescent; the act of descending.
- deserverSomeone who deserves.
- despectContempt, derision.
- despisableWorthy to be despised.
- despiteousFull of contempt or ill will; opprobrious; insulting.
- despoilerOne who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
- desportTo disport.
- despumeTo free from spume, foam or scum.
- desuetudeThe state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.
- detinueA person or thing detained; a detainee.
- devilryMischief.
- devirginateTo deprive of virginity; to deflower.
- dewlapThe pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal.
- DeyesAn English surname originating as a patronymic.
- dicacitypertness; sauciness
- dictatureOffice of a dictator; dictatorship.
- dimidiationThe act of dividing into halves.
- diminuteSmall; diminutive.
- dindleTo tingle, as from cold; quiver; thrill
- dirtenDirty; filthy
- dis-Not, the reverse of. (Especially forming words with a negative connotation)
- disaccordThe absence or reverse of accord.
- disaccustomTo cause (someone) to break a habit or become unaccustomed to something that they were previously accustomed to
- disadvanceTo draw back, pull back.
- disafforestTo deforest.
- disciplessA female disciple.
- discludeTo disclose, make known.
- discomfitTo embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
- discommonTo deprive of the privilege of citizenship of a town or city.
- disdainousdisdainful
- disharnessTo take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
- disheritTo disinherit.
- disheritanceSynonym of disinheritance.
- dishfulAs much as a dish will hold.
- disjoinTo separate; to disunite.
- disobeyanceSynonym of disobedience.
- disordinancedisorder or disturbance
- disourA professional storyteller or joker.
- dispenderA steward or treasurer.
- disperishTo be ruined or lost; to perish.
- disportTo amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol.
- disseizinThe act of disseizing; an act of unlawful dispossessing, especially of someone's lands.
- dissemblerSomeone who dissembles.
- disseverTo separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).
- dissimilitudeThe quality of being dissimilar or different; lack of resemblance.
- 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
- doldrumA slothful or stupid person.
- 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.
- dossilA small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.
- 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