English Words Starting With D

• dost

  verbArchaic - Found only in historical/religious texts, poetry, or deliberate archaisms.
  /dʌst/Archaic second person singular present tense of the verb 'do'
• dostoevsky

  nounMedium-low
  /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski/Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) – a seminal Russian novelist, philosopher, and essayist.
• dot

  nounverbverb-intransitiveverb-transitiveB1
  /dɒt/A very small, round mark or spot.
• dot ball

  nounMedium
  /ˈdɒt ˌbɔːl/In cricket, a delivery bowled by the bowler from which the batsman scores no runs and does not lose his wicket.
• dot etching

  nounRare/Obsolete (Specialist Technical)
  /ˈdɒt ˌetʃ.ɪŋ/A manual photo-engraving technique for correcting halftone images by chemically etching individual dots to adjust their size and thus control tonal values.
• dot matrix

  nounB2
  /ˌdɒt ˈmeɪ.trɪks/A grid of dots used to form characters or images, historically on printers or screens.
• dot product

  nounC2
  /ˈdɒt ˌprɒd.ʌkt/A mathematical operation that takes two equal-length sequences of numbers (usually coordinate vectors) and returns a single number, calculated as the sum of the products of corresponding entries.
• dot-com

  adjectivenounC1/C2
  /ˌdɒt ˈkɒm/A company whose primary business is conducted via the internet, especially one with a website address ending in ".com".
• dot-matrix printer

  nounLow
  /ˌdɒt ˈmeɪtrɪks ˈprɪntə/An impact printer that forms characters using a grid of small pins striking an inked ribbon.
• dotage

  nounC2
  /ˈdəʊ.tɪdʒ/The period of old age when a person's mental faculties, particularly memory and judgement, are in decline; senility.
• dotard

  nounC2 (Very Low Frequency)
  /ˈdəʊtəd/An old person, especially one who is weak-minded, senile, or foolish due to old age.
• dotation

  nounC2/Rare
  /dəʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/The act of endowing or providing a permanent fund or property for an institution or person, particularly as a form of financial support.
• dotcom

  nounB2
  /ˌdɒtˈkɒm/The part of a website's address that follows the 'www.' and ends with '.com', originally indicating a commercial organization.
• dotcommer

  nounLow
  /ˌdɒtˈkɒmə/A person who works for or founds a company that operates primarily on the internet, particularly during the rise of the commercial internet in the late 1990s.
• dote

  nounverbverb-intransitiveC1
  /dəʊt/to be extremely and uncritically fond of someone or something; to show excessive love or admiration.
• doth

  verbC2
  /dʌθ/Archaic third-person singular present indicative form of the verb 'do'.
• dothan

  nounVery Low (C2+)
  /ˈdəʊθən/A proper noun, primarily the name of a city in Alabama, USA.
• dotted line

  nounC1
  /ˌdɒtɪd ˈlaɪn/A line consisting of a series of dots or small dashes.
• dotterel

  nounC2/Rare
  /ˈdɒt(ə)rəl/A small, migratory shorebird (Eudromias morinellus) known for its tame behaviour and nesting in northern regions.
• dottie

  nounLow
  /ˈdɒt.i/An affectionate diminutive or nickname for Dorothy or, less commonly, a person who is considered silly, eccentric, or mildly scatterbrained.

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