Words that start with D

A decade is ten years.

December is the twelfth and last month of the year. It has 31 days. In the northern hemisphere December is part of winter, and in the southern hemisphere it is part of summer. Christmas is in December.

A plant is deciduous if it loses its leaves each year in the cooler months. Deciduous trees leaves turn from green to shades of orange in autumn, and then fall off. The leaves grow back again in spring.

A deck is a platform usually made from wooden slats.
Decks are usually built outside houses that are on a slope, where the ground is too steep to have a useable outdoor space.

Something is decorated if it has things on or in it that make it look much nicer. For example, you might decorate your house with nice furniture.

The picture is of decorated Easter eggs.

Something is decorative if it is there for decoration.

Water is called deep if you cannot touch the bottom with your feet when you stand in it. Deep water can be found in the sea, or at the diving end of a pool. Wells and mines are very deep but don't always have water in them.
The man in the picture is diving in some very deep water.

A defect is something wrong with something, that stops it from being perfect. A defect in a machine might stop it from working at all.
A defect might also be called a flaw or imperfection.

Deflate means to release the gas or air from something that has been inflated, such as a balloon.

A degu is a small, brown rodent with a grayish belly, a pointed snout, and a bushy tail with a tuft at the end. It lives in rocky, dry areas of western South America. Degus are active during the day.