Words that start with D

Dis forDice (game)

A die, plural dice, is a small object that you roll as a way of getting a random number while playing a game. Dice usually have six sides numbered from one to six, but you can get dice with more sides too.

Toys & games

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Dis forDice (chop)

Dicing food is a way of chopping food up with a knife into cubes of roughly equal size. Cutting food up this way makes the food cook more evenly, and is also nice to look at.

Food preparation

Photo of an Aboriginal playing a didgeridoo.

Aaron Jacobs / CC BY-SA

Dis forDidgeridoo

A didgeridoo is a kind of wind instrument used by Australian Aboriginals. It is made from a piece of wood that has been hollowed out by termites.

Musical words

Photographic Dictionary / Generated illustration

Dis forDie

Dying is the point where something alive becomes dead. The term can also be used on things that aren't alive, to describe when things like engines and other appliances stop working.

Death

Photo of a very different flower in a field of similar ones

Suvodeb Banerjee / CC BY-SA

Dis forDifferent

Two things are different if they are not like each other, or can very easily be told apart. The purple flower in the picture is very different to all the red ones. The opposite of different is similar.

Adjectives

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Dis forDifficult

Something is difficult if it is complicated and takes some skill to achieve. The picture is of a difficult puzzle.

Adjectives

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Dis forDig

Digging is where you use a spade or your hands (or your paws if you are a dog) to move sand or dirt around. Usually you dig to make a hole. The boy in the picture is helping to dig a vegetable garden. The past tense of dig is dug.

Verbs