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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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A doctor is someone who makes sick or injured people better. Their main role is to find out what is wrong with someone and prescribe treatment, while a nurse's role is mainly to look after sick or injured people as they get better. Some doctors perform surgery, cutting people open to fix what is wrong inside, to help people get better.
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A doe is a female deer.
Photo of a man doffing his hat
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Doff means to remove an item of clothing, but is most commonly meant to take off your hat or tip your hat as a greeting.
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Scientific name: canis lupus familiaris
People have been keeping dogs as pets for thousands of years. Dogs can be used to herd animals like sheep, and if they are well trained they will obey commands like sit and fetch. Dogs come in a huge variety of different colours and sizes, from tiny Chihuahuas right up to huge dogs like the Great Dane. A female dog is called a bitch and a baby dog is called a puppy. Modern dogs were domesticated from wolves, and were originally kept as hunting companions.
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Dolls are models of people that are meant to be played with. Most dolls are of girls or babies, but there are boy dolls too. Dolls can be made of plastic or porcelain, and usually have hair you can brush and style, and clothes that you can put on them.
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A dollar is a unit of money, equal to one hundred cents.
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A dollhouse is a house in miniature for dolls or other toys to live in. You can get small furniture to fit in the doll's house too. Dollhouses are a good toy to have if you are a little girl.
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Dolphins are a medium sized animal that lives in the water, mainly the sea but they are also found in lakes and rivers. They are not fish, as they need to come to the surface to breathe, the same as we do when we are swimming. Dolphins eat mostly fish. They are intelligent and can be taught tricks.
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A dome is a shape that is half a sphere. One side of a dome is flat, and is the shape of a circle. If you turn a salad bowl upside down it is dome shaped. A dome made out of shapes that doesn't have a smooth surface is a geodesic dome.

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Something is domestic if it relates to house and home. An animal is domestic if it is tame or has been bred to serve people somehow. The opposite of domestic is industrial. The opposite of tame is wild.