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Words that start with D

Dashing dentists daintily eat dates while dancing at the disco.

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Photo of a detour sign

D is for Detour

Verbs, Directions

A detour is a path taken that goes out of the way of your usual path. Detours are usually set up when there is some obstacle and there needs to be a way around it.
Used as a verb, it simply means you are taking a detour, for example "I am going to detour past the shops on my way home".

Monik Markus / CC BY-SA

Photo of some devices

D is for Device

List of devices

A device is a tool or machine that is made to do a special job. People make devices to help them perform tasks.

Some devices help you communicate, some play music, some measure things, and many more. Devices can do lots of things!

Nicolas Nova / CC BY-SA

A seagull devouring a fish

D is for Devour

Devour means to eat or consume something aggressively or greedily. For example, the hungry lions in the picture are devouring a boar.

Berit Watkin / CC BY-SA

Photo of dew on a leaf

D is for Dew

Dew forms in the early hours of the morning, before sunrise. Moisture from the air condenses onto surfaces like leaves as the air cools down.

Daniel R. Blume / CC BY-SA

Photo of diagonal lines

D is for Diagonal

Adjectives, Directions

A line is diagonal if it is not straight up and down relative to things around it, or not horizontal or vertical. Diagonal lines are at an angle.

tanakawho / CC BY-SA

Photo of a phone dial

D is for Dial

List of devices, Verbs

A dial is a round device that is marked with letters or numbers. They are most commonly seen on older phones.
Used as a verb, dial means the process of calling someone on a phone, for example "I am dialling your number".

Joybot / CC BY-SA

Photo of a man showing diameter on a cut tree

D is for Diameter

The diameter of a circle is the measurement across the circle at its widest point. The man in the picture has his arms across the diameter of the cut tree.

Tim Hettler / CC BY-SA

Photo of a diamond shaped window

D is for Diamond (Shape)

A diamond, or rhombus is a four-sided shape, like a square turned on its side. All four sides of a rhombus are the same length but the angles on the corners do not have to be 90 degrees like in a square, the rhombus can be taller than it is wide or wider than it is tall.

The window in the picture is diamond-shaped.

A diamond is also a kind of precious stone.

Faruk Ateş / CC BY-SA

Photo of a diamond ring

D is for Diamond (Stone)

Gems & minerals

Diamonds are made from carbon arranged in a very rigid crystalline pattern. This makes diamond the hardest substance in the world. It is also very good at dispersing light, which gives diamonds their sparkle. Diamonds are very popular in jewellery like rings and necklaces.

William Warby / CC BY-SA

Photo of a box of diapers

D is for Diaper

A diaper, also called a nappy, is a folded piece of cloth worn on the bottom of someone who can't use a toilet. Babies wear diapers before they are potty trained. Cloth nappies are usually held shut by a safety pin.

Inga Munsinger / CC BY-SA

Photo of a diary

D is for Diary

Text & documents

A diary is a blank book in which you write about what is happening to you.

A similar word to diary is journal.

Fredrik Rubensson / CC BY-SA

Photo of diced vegetables

D is for Dice (Chop)

Food preparation

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.

Mr Michael Phams / CC BY-SA

Photo of dice

D is for Dice (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.

Toshiyuki IMAI / CC BY-SA

Photo of an Aboriginal playing a didgeridoo.

D is for Didgeridoo

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.

Aaron Jacobs / CC BY-SA

Generated image of a dying plant

D is for Die

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.

Photographic Dictionary / Generated Illustration

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

D is for Different

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.

Suvodeb Banerjee / CC BY-SA

Photo of a difficult puzzle

D is for Difficult

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

David Davies / CC BY-SA

Photo of a boy digging

D is for Dig

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.

woodleywonderworks / CC BY-SA

Aerial photo of a dike

D is for Dike

List of structures

A dike is an embankment or a dam made of stone or earth to stop water flow from a watercourse such as a river.

JacksonvilleDistrict / CC BY-SA

Photo of a dilated eye

D is for Dilate

You dilate something when you make it bigger or wider. The eye in the picture is dilated.

juannomore / CC BY-SA