Words that start with D

Dashing dentists daintily eat dates while dancing at the disco.

Dis forDinosaur

Dinosaurs lived on the Earth millions of years ago. They came in a huge variety of shapes and sizes. Some dinosaurs were tall and walked on two legs, others walked on all fours. Some dinosaurs ate grass and leaves, other dinosaurs ate smaller dinosaurs.

Dis forDip

A dip can be one of many things. As a verb, you dip something by lowering it briefly into a liquid, for example the person in the picture is dipping some bread. The semi-liquid food he is dipping the bread into is also called a dip. Dips are very tasty, can be made from virtually anything, and are usually served with some kind of bread. Many dips are made with a yoghurt base. A dip is also a shallow dent or depression in the ground, often seen where a drain crosses a road.

Dis forDipped

Dipped is the past tense of dip.
A direction is the way something is facing or moving. Most directions have names, like east, west, up, down, left or right.

Dis forDirt

Dirt is a general name for the fine powdery stuff that is on the ground everywhere outdoors. Dirt is the name given to very ordinary sort. Rough dirt that doesn't hold water very well is usually called sand, very fine dirt that can also be used to make pottery is called clay and dirt that is good quality, either naturally or because someone improved it with compost, is called soil.

Dis forDirty

Something is dirty if it needs to be washed. Things that are dirty often smell bad, and look bad because they have dirt, grease or other stains on them that shouldn't be there. The person in the picture has very dirty feet.
Something disappears when it suddenly changes from you being able to see it to not being able to see it. The man in the picture has disappeared and only left his clothes behind. A similar word to disappear is vanish. The opposite of disappear is appear.
You are disappointed when something you expected or wanted doesn't happen. People might get disappointed that the last slice of cake was taken before they got a chance to have some.
When you become a little sad because something doesn't work out the way you thought it would, you are disappointed.

Dis forDisc

Disc is an alternative spelling of disk.