Words that start with D

Dashing dentists daintily eat dates while dancing at the disco.

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.

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.

Dis forDiss

Diss is an abbreviation of the word disrespect. Diss is used as slang, especially among hip hop and graffiti artists. If you diss someone, you have insulted them.

Dis forDissolve

You dissolve a solid in a liquid by mixing the solid around until it seems to disappear. Once the solid is completely dissolved, the resulting solution behaves exactly like a liquid. Solids won't dissolve in any liquid, they must be soluble in them. For example, table salt is soluble in water but not in oil. Solids that do not dissolve in a liquid but are mixed into a liquid can be removed with a filter. Filtering is an effective way to remove very fine particles of dirt from water.

Dis forDistance

Distance describes how far apart two points are, or describes something that is a long way away, for example "you can see the hills in the distance". The men in the picture are making a fence with all the posts the same distance apart.