Word origins

• dotateTo endow.
• double quarrelSynonym of duplex querela.
• DouggaAn abandoned town and UNESCO world heritage site in Tunisia.
• draconeA large bag towed by a powered vessel to transport a fluid cargo, such as a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
• draconicalSynonym of draconic (“relating to or suggestive of dragons”).
• draconicallyIn a draconic (relating to or suggestive of dragons) manner.
• draconiteA mythical gemstone taken from the head of a live dragon and believed to have magical properties.
• draconiticOf or pertaining to the nodal period.
• dracontiumThe roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus
• dracunculusA dragonet, a fish of families Callionymidae or Draconettidae.
• dramatis personaeThe characters in a play, story, or history; a list of them, usually arranged in order of first appearance, as protatic matter.
• drop sereneSynonym of amaurosis.
• duale tantumA noun (or specific sense of a noun) that can only occur in the dual, and which lacks forms for singular, plural, and any other number.
• dubitableCapable of being doubted; susceptible of being questioned.
• dubitancyDoubt; uncertainty.
• dubitanteHaving doubts; used in law reports of a judge who is doubtful about a legal proposition but hesitates to declare it wrong.
• dubitateto doubt
• dubitativeTending to doubt; doubtful.
• duces tecumBring with you.
• ductus choledochusThe common bile duct.
• ductus deferensSynonym of vas deferens.
• Duiliusa Roman nomen gentilicium
• dulcacidHaving a taste that is both sweet and sour.
• dulceousSweet.
• dulcianaAn organ stop with a sweet-sounding tone.
• dulciferousHaving a pleasant disposition.
• dulcifiedsweetened; mollified
• dulcifluoussweet in nature, character, or sound.
• dulcifyTo sweeten the taste of.
• dulciloquentSpeaking sweetly.
• dulciloquyA soft manner of speaking; gentle speech.
• dulcinAn artificial sweetener, 4-ethoxyphenyl-urea, no longer permitted in food
• dulcisonantSweetly sounding.
• dulciteThe sugar alcohol dulcitol (galactitol)
• dulcitolSynonym of galactitol.
• dulcitoneA keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.
• dulcitudeSweetness
• dulcitySweetness (literal and figurative).
• dulcorationsweetening.
• duliaThe veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God.
• dumetosedumous
• dumousAbounding with bushes and briars.
• DunelmensisThe bishop of Durham.
• duo-two
• DuodecemberA notional, normally non-existent fourteenth month of the Western calendar.
• duodecennialConsisting of twelve years, occurring in 12-year cycles.
• duodecetA group of twelve musicians; a piece of music written for such a group
• duodecimarticulateHaving twelve joints.
• duodecimateSynonym of duodecimvirate: a group of twelve.
• duodecimfidDivided into twelve parts.
• duodecimvirAny member of a group of twelve officials.
• duodecimvirateA group of twelve people, especially (politics) a council of twelve men sharing office or rule, particularly such groups of magistrates in ancient Rome.
• duodenaryTwelvefold.
• duodeneA schematic group of twelve notes.
• duologyA series comprising two parts, particularly in genre fiction.
• duovirSynonym of duumvir.
• dupletA tuplet of two notes played in the time of three.
• duplex querelaA complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop.
• duplicariusA member of the Ancient Roman army who received double the basic pay.
• duplicato-doubly
• duplicitas anteriorA fetal abnormality in which the cephalic end is doubled.
• duplicitas posteriorA fetal abnormality in which the pelvic end is doubled.
• duplifyTo double.
• duplivincularThe quality or character of being doubly bound, bound twice over.
• duplo-double, twofold
• dupondiusA bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, equal to two asses.
• durainA type of coal.
• duramenheartwood
• durene1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon used as a solvent and in the manufacture of pyromellitic acid.
• duricrustA thin hard layer found near the surface in soil.
• durityhardness; firmness
• durophagyThe eating of hard-shelled foods such as bones or nuts, or prey organisms such as shellfish.
• duroushard
• durum wheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread.
• DusaresA pre-Islamic Arabian god.
• duumvirOne of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome.
• duumviralOf or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
• duumvirateThe office of the Roman duumvirs or (hence) of any two people in authority; a dyarchy; the rule or authority of two people, especially two men.
• dux bellorumA war leader or warlord.
• dwarf standing on the shoulders of giantsOne who discovers by building on previous discoveries.
• DyrrhachiumSynonym of Durrës (“a city in Albania”).
• -e-A linking vowel inserted between two morphemes, to ease pronunciation, without contributing to the meaning.
• e-Used to form terms with the sense of something being absent, being removed, or moving outward.
• -eanForms adjectives, usually from proper nouns.
• East LondonThe northeastern part of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England.
• ebriateDrunk; intoxicated.
• ebriousHaving a tendency towards alcohol abuse.
• ebullioscopeAn instrument used to measure the boiling point of liquids
• ebullioscopythe measurement of the boiling point of liquids
• eburnateTo undergo eburnation.
• eburnationA degenerative process of bone, occurring at sites of articular cartilage erosion and commonly found in patients with osteoarthritis. Subchondral bone responds to increased friction by generating reactive, ivory-like dense bone at the site of erosion.
• eburneanMade of ivory.
• eburnificationThe conversion of certain substances, such as pulp or bone, into ivory-like substance.
• eburnineLike ivory.
• eburnitisA dental condition characterized by the increased density, hardening, and polishing of exposed dentin that represents a calcification of the soft material in dentinal tubules, creating an ivory-like surface.
• EcbatanaThe ancient capital of Media, in modern-day Iran, and subsequently a royal residence of Persian and Parthian kings.
• ecce homoA picture representing Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, before his crucifixion.
• ecclesiarchAn official of the Eastern Church, equivalent to a sacristan in the Western Church.
• ecclesio-church
• EchinadesA group of islands in the Ionian Sea