Name Report For First Name DORE:

DORE

First name DORE's origin is French. DORE means "blonde". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DORE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dore.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with DORE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with DORE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming DORE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DORE AS A WHOLE:

isidore doreen doreena salvadore theodore isadorer isadore dorette dorene doren

NAMES RHYMING WITH DORE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ore) - Names That Ends with ore:

hannelore kore terpsichore nyasore brangore moore gilmore asthore aurore eleonore honore lenore lore aghamore atmore attmore avonmore ballinamore beore cathmore crohoore delmore dunmore elmore filmore gore jore more pellinore salbatore salvatore ettore whitmore athmore theore elinore blakemore dinsmore leonore

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:

ebiere balere deirdre aure magaere pleasure amare zere alexandre bedivere bellangere saffire elidure gaothaire giollamhuire cesare macaire imre baldassare petre aedre aefre allaire amalure andere andsware audre azzure baibre blaire ceire chere claire clare conchobarre dechtire dedre deidre desire desyre diandre diedre dierdre eastre eostre ettare genevre guenevere guinevere gwenevere hilaire idurre izarre kesare laire legarre maire mare muire niaire pipere

NAMES RHYMING WITH DORE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dor) - Names That Begins with dor:

dor dora doralie doran dorbeta dorcas dorcey dordei dordie doria dorian dorice dorien dorika dorin dorina dorinda dorine dorion doris dorise dorit dorkas doro doron dorotea doroteia dorotha dorothea dorothee dorothy dorottya dorran dorrance dorrel dorrell dorren dorrin dorsey dortha doru dory

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (do) - Names That Begins with do:

doane doanna doba dobhailen dobi dodinel dohnatello dohosan dohtor doire doireann dolan doli dolie dolius dollie dolly dolores dolorita dolph dolphus domenica domenick domenico domenique domevlo domhnall domhnull domhnulla dominga domingart domingo dominic dominica dominick dominik dominique don dona donagh donaghy donahue donal donald donalda donall donat donata donatello donatien donato donavan donavon doncia dondre donegan donel donell

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DORE:

First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'e':

dace dae daesgesage daine daire daisie dale dalene damae damerae damiane danae dane danele danelle danette danice daniele danielle danise dannalee dannee dannelle dannie danrelle dantae dante daphne darce darcelle darchelle darcie darelene darelle darence darice darleane darlene darline darrance darrence daryle darylene daunte dave davide davidsone davie davine davite dawayne dawne dawnelle dawnette dawnielle dayle dayne deane deanne dearbourne debbee debbie debralee dechtere dee deheune deiene deke dekle delaine delane delanie delbine delcine delice delmare delphine demasone demissie dene denelle denice deniece denise denisse dennie dennise denyse deonne deorwine derebourne derorice derrance desarae desaree desirae desiree destanee destine destinee

English Words Rhyming DORE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DORE AS A WHOLE:

adorementnoun (n.) The act of adoring; adoration.

adorernoun (n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.

bandorenoun (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

commodorenoun (n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.
 noun (n.) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.
 noun (n.) A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.
 noun (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.

doreenoun (n.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.

doretreenoun (n.) A doorpost.

mandorenoun (n.) A kind of four-stringed lute.

matadorenoun (n.) Alt. of Matador

moidorenoun (n.) A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

pandorenoun (n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.

provedorenoun (n.) A proveditor; a purveyor.

providorenoun (n.) One who makes provision; a purveyor.

stevedorenoun (n.) One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

windorenoun (n.) A window.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DORE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ore) - English Words That Ends with ore:


acrosporenoun (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

aigremorenoun (n.) Charcoal prepared for making powder.

albacorenoun (n.) See Albicore.

albicorenoun (n.) A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.

androphorenoun (n.) A support or column on which stamens are raised.
 noun (n.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

androsporenoun (n.) A spore of some algae, which has male functions.

anthophorenoun (n.) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family.

ascosporenoun (n.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]

anisosporenoun (n.) A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

arthrosporenoun (n.) A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.

basidiosporenoun (n.) A spore borne by a basidium.

bedsorenoun (n.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

biophor biophorenoun (n.) One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

blastophorenoun (n.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

blastoporenoun (n.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

blorenoun (n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

bookstorenoun (n.) A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

borenoun (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
 noun (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
 noun (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
 noun (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
 noun (n.) Caliber; importance.
 noun (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
 noun (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
 noun (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
 verb (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
 verb (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
 verb (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
 verb (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
 verb (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
 verb (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
 verb (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
 verb (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
 verb (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
  (imp.) of Bear
  () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

caracorenoun (n.) Alt. of Caracora

carnivorenoun (n.) One of the Carnivora.

carpophorenoun (n.) A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

carposporenoun (n.) A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.

celleporenoun (n.) A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

chlamyphorenoun (n.) A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.

chorenoun (n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
 noun (n.) A choir or chorus.
 verb (v. i.) To do chores.

chromatophorenoun (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.
 noun (n.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

chromophorenoun (n.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

chrysochlorenoun (n.) A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

claymorenoun (n.) A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

collophorenoun (n.) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.
 noun (n.) An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.

corenoun (n.) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
 noun (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.
 noun (n.) A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
 noun (n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
 noun (n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
 noun (n.) The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
 noun (n.) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.
 noun (n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
 noun (n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
 noun (n.) A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound.
 verb (v. t.) To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
 verb (v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

corocorenoun (n.) A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.

counterborenoun (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
 noun (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
 verb (v. t.) To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

crorenoun (n.) Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).

ctenophorenoun (n.) One of the Ctenophora.

chokeborenoun (n.) In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 2/ to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.
 noun (n.) A shotgun that is made with such a bore.
 verb (v. t.) To provide with a chokebore.

diasporenoun (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

dogshorenoun (n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

drawborenoun (n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
 verb (v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
 verb (v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

earsorenoun (n.) An annoyance to the ear.

eightscorenoun (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

elleborenoun (n.) Hellebore.

encorenoun (n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.
 adverb (adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.
 verb (v. t.) To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

endosporenoun (n.) The thin inner coat of certain spores.

episporenoun (n.) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

exosporenoun (n.) The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

extemporenoun (n.) Speaking or writing done extempore.
 adjective (a.) Done or performed extempore.
 adverb (adv.) Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore.

eyesorenoun (n.) Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.

forenoun (n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
 verb (v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
 adverb (adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
 adverb (adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
 adverb (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
 adverb (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
 prep (prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

fourscorenoun (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
 noun (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DORE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dor) - Words That Begins with dor:


dornoun (n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.
 noun (n.) A trick, joke, or deception.
 verb (v. t.) To make a fool of; to deceive.

doradonoun (n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
 noun (n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.

dorbeetlenoun (n.) See 1st Dor.

dorhawknoun (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.

doriannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
 adjective (a.) Same as Doric, 3.

doricnoun (n.) The Doric dialect.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
 adjective (a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.

doricismnoun (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.

dorisnoun (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.

dorismnoun (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.

dormancynoun (n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

dormantadjective (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
 adjective (a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
 adjective (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."

dormernoun (n.) Alt. of Dormer window

dormer windownoun (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

dormitivenoun (n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
 adjective (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.

dormitorynoun (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
 noun (n.) A burial place.

dormousenoun (n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.

dornnoun (n.) A British ray; the thornback.

dornicknoun (n.) Alt. of Dornock

dornocknoun (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.

dorpnoun (n.) A hamlet.

dorrnoun (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor.
 verb (v. t.) To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.
 verb (v. t.) To deafen with noise.

dorrflynoun (n.) See 1st Dor.

dorrhawknoun (n.) See Dorhawk.

dorsaladjective (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
 adjective (a.) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

dorsalenoun (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.

dorsenoun (n.) Same as dorsal, n.
 noun (n.) The back of a book.
 noun (n.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.

dorselnoun (n.) A pannier.
 noun (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.

dorsernoun (n.) See Dosser.

dorsibranchiatanoun (n. pl.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.]

dorsibranchiatenoun (n.) One of the Dorsibranchiata.
 adjective (a.) Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.

dorsimesonnoun (n.) (Anat.) See Meson.

dorsiparousadjective (a.) Same as Dorsiferous.

dorsiventraladjective (a.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
 adjective (a.) See Dorsoventral.

dorsoventraladjective (a.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.

dorsumnoun (n.) The ridge of a hill.
 noun (n.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

dortournoun (n.) Alt. of Dorture

dorturenoun (n.) A dormitory.

dorynoun (n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
 noun (n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
 noun (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

doryphoranoun (n.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

doryphorosnoun (n.) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

dormyadjective (a.) Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DORE:

English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'e':

dacenoun (n.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.

daguerreotypenoun (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
 noun (n.) The process of taking such pictures.
 verb (v. t.) To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
 verb (v. t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

dalenoun (n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
 noun (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

dalliancenoun (n.) The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
 noun (n.) Delay or procrastination.
 noun (n.) Entertaining discourse.

damagenoun (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
 noun (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
 noun (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
 verb (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

damageableadjective (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
 adjective (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.

damascenenoun (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
 adjective (a.) Of or relating to Damascus.
 verb (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.

damassenoun (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.
 adjective (a.) Woven like damask.

dambonitenoun (n.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.

dambosenoun (n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.

damenoun (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
 noun (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
 noun (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
 noun (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.

damnableadjective (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
 adjective (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.

damoisellenoun (n.) See Damsel.

damouritenoun (n.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

danaidenoun (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

danaitenoun (n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

danalitenoun (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.

danburitenoun (n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.

dancetteadjective (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

dandienoun (n.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.
 noun (n.) In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.
 noun (n.) One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border.

danenoun (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.

danitenoun (n.) A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
 noun (n.) One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.

danseusenoun (n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

dantesqueadjective (a.) Dantelike; Dantean.

daphnenoun (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
 noun (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

dapplenoun (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Dappled
 verb (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.

darbyitenoun (n.) One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.

darenoun (n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
 noun (n.) Defiance; challenge.
 noun (n.) A small fish; the dace.
 verb (v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
 verb (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
 verb (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
 verb (v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.
 verb (v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.

darguenoun (n.) A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.

darksomeadjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

dasyurenoun (n.) A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.

dasyurineadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.

datableadjective (a.) That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.

datenoun (n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
 noun (n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
 noun (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
 noun (n.) Assigned end; conclusion.
 noun (n.) Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
 verb (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
 verb (v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
 verb (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

dativenoun (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.
 adjective (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
 adjective (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
 adjective (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.
 adjective (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.

datolitenoun (n.) A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.

daturinenoun (n.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

daubreelitenoun (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

dauphinenoun (n.) The title of the wife of the dauphin.

davynenoun (n.) A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.

dawdlenoun (n.) A dawdler.
 verb (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
 verb (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

dawenoun (n.) Day.

dawsonitenoun (n.) A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

daymarenoun (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

daytimenoun (n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

dazenoun (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
 noun (n.) A glittering stone.
 verb (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

dazzlenoun (n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy.
 verb (v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
 verb (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.
 verb (v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.
 verb (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

deadhousenoun (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.

dearienoun (n.) Same as Deary.

deathlikeadjective (a.) Resembling death.
 adjective (a.) Deadly.

deaurateadjective (a.) Gilded.
 verb (v. t.) To gild.

debaclenoun (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
 noun (n.) A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.

debaseadjective (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.

debatableadjective (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.

debeigenoun (n.) A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.

debenturenoun (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
 noun (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
 noun (n.) Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.

debileadjective (a.) Weak.

debouchenoun (n.) A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.

debouchurenoun (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

debteenoun (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

debuscopenoun (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.

decadenoun (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

decadencenoun (n.) Alt. of Decadency

decagrammenoun (n.) A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

decalcomanienoun (n.) The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

decalitrenoun (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

decaloguenoun (n.) The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

decametrenoun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

decanenoun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

decasterenoun (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

decastylenoun (n.) A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.
 adjective (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc.

deceasenoun (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
 verb (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.

decedenoun (n.) To withdraw.

deceivableadjective (a.) Fitted to deceive; deceitful.
 adjective (a.) Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.

decemdentateadjective (a.) Having ten points or teeth.

decemviratenoun (n.) The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.
 noun (n.) A body of ten men in authority.

decencenoun (n.) Decency.

decenenoun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

deceptibleadjective (a.) Capable of being deceived; deceivable.

deceptiveadjective (a.) Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.

decerniturenoun (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.

decerptibleadjective (a.) That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.

decidableadjective (a.) Capable of being decided; determinable.

decidencenoun (n.) A falling off.

deciduateadjective (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

decigrammenoun (n.) A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

decilenoun (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.

decilitrenoun (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

decimenoun (n.) A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

decimetrenoun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

decinenoun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

decipherableadjective (a.) Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

decisiveadjective (a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
 adjective (a.) Marked by promptness and decision.

decisterenoun (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

decklenoun (n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.

declarableadjective (a.) Capable of being declared.

declarativeadjective (a.) Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.

declinableadjective (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

declinateadjective (a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

declinaturenoun (n.) The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.