Words that start with D

Dashing dentists daintily eat dates while dancing at the disco.

A drone is a male bee whose main role is to mate with a queen. Unlike worker bees, drones do not collect nectar or pollen.
A drone is a small aircraft that flies without a pilot inside it. It is controlled remotely by a person on the ground or programmed to fly automatically. The word drone began to be used for pilotless aircraft in the early 1900s. The name was inspired by male bees, also called drones, which do not gather food and were used as a metaphor for machines that operate without a human inside.

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Drool is another word for saliva, especially when it is dripping from your mouth. You can often see dogs and babies drooling.

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Something droops if it bends over and down. Things might droop because they are tired or unsupported. Some plants and flowers naturally have a drooping growth pattern.

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You drop something when you let it fall down by itself. The students in the picture are dropping something out of a high window as an experiment. A drop is also a small globule of liquid, such as a raindrop.

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A drought is an extended time where lower than normal amounts of rain falls. During a drought, rivers and lakes can dry up, and many plants and animals die.
A group of hares is called a drove. Sometimes they are called a husk.

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A drover is someone who drives livestock like cows or sheep from place to place. Drovers usually ride horses or motorbikes.

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A drum is a percussion instrument, which means you hit it to make music. Drums are usually made from a round shell with a skin stretched tight over the top. How low or high the sound the drum makes depends on the size of the shell and how tight the skin is stretched. A drum kit is a group of drums of different sizes put near each other so one person can play them at once.

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A drupe is a kind of fruit that has a single seed in a hard shell in the middle of the fruit. Examples of drupes are cherries, plums, olives and apricots.