Word origins

• 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.
• drightenA lord; ruler; sovereign; chief; leader; prince.
• 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.
• dwarrowA dwarf (member of a race of beings usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves).
• dweomerThe magical aura on an enchanted item; or more broadly, the aura of a magic spell having been cast while active.
• dweomercraftMagic; magical arts; jugglery.
• 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.
• eacewormAn earthworm.
• 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.
• earlapThe ear lobe.
• earnestfulserious; earnest
• earshstubble field.
• earspoonA very small spoon used as an earpick.
• earthappleA Jerusalem artichoke (the tuber of Helianthus tuberosus); the plant that produces it.
• earthdinAn earthquake.
• earthdrakea dragon.
• earth-fastFirm or planted in the earth, and difficult to remove.
• earthholeA hole or cavern in the earth; a cave.
• earthhouseAn underground chamber or habitation; a souterrain.
• earthlessWithout earth or soil.
• earthnutA tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).
• earth-tilthCultivation of the ground; farming; agriculture.
• Easter termSynonym of Paschal term (“the fourteenth day of the first lunar month of spring, formerly used in calculating dates”).
• eathlyIn an eath or easy manner; easily; readily.
• ecclesiastA member of the Athenian ecclesia (public legislative assembly).
• eckleAn icicle.
• eclogueA pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds.
• -edUsed to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.
• ed-A prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.
• edderA long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
• eddishAn aftergrowth of grass (or other plants) which grows after it has been mowed; also, a field of such growth.
• edgelingWith the edge.
• edge toolA tool or weapon with a sharpened edge or blade.
• edgrowAftergrass; eddish.
• eelbuckA device for catching eels.
• egalityEquality.
• egg onTo encourage or coax (a person) to do something, especially something foolhardy or reckless.
• eggshellfulThe amount contained in an eggshell
• egg whiteThe clear fluid part of an egg surrounding the yolk, being mostly the protein albumin and water, which turns stiff and white when beaten or cooked.
• egg yolkThe central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
• EgyptlandThe land of the Egyptians; Egypt
• eigneEldest; firstborn. Only used in bastard eigne.
• -elSuffix forming nouns, originally denoting an instrument, from verbs, usually spelt -le except after n and e.
• elderdomAuthority; dominion.