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Words starting with D

Words that start with D

Dashing dentists daintily eat dates while dancing at the disco.

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Dis forDisgust

You feel disgust when you have a sudden, very strong dislike of something. Some smells, like rotten food, are disgusting. The person in the picture is disgusted.
A plate is a type of dish.
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Dis forDish

A dish is a tool or container used for serving food, such as a plate, bowl, or cup. Dish is also another word for a part of a meal.
Disinfectant is a substance that is used, usually while cleaning, to kill most germs and micro-organisms it comes into contact with. Disinfectants by no means kill all micro-organisms, which can cause its own set of problems as the ones that survive can then breed with less competition from the other micro-organisms that the disinfectant killed.
Something disintegrates when it breaks down into the components it was made from, or just breaks into small pieces. The building in the picture is slowly disintegrating.
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Dis forDisk

A disk is a three dimensional shape that is round and mostly flat. Things that are disk-shaped include plates and frisbees.

Dis forDismiss

You dismiss someone when you let them go away from you.

Dis forDismount

You dismount something when you get off of it. The man in the picture is dismounting from his bicycle. The opposite of dismount is mount.

Dis forDisobey

You disobey when you deliberately don't do what you are told. The photo is of someone parking in front of a no parking sign, and some rubbish dumped in front of a no dumping sign. The opposite of disobey is obey.
A dispenser is a container with something inside it that has some way of letting you take small amounts of the thing inside. For example, you might have a dispenser that dispenses sticky tape, or liquid soap, or paper towels like the dispenser in the picture.

Dis forDisperse

A group of things disperse when they all go in different directions, away from each other, and spread out. Many plants disperse their seeds on the wind. A similar word to disperse is scatter.