Words starting with d

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

dame daphne du maurier means: English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)

dame edith louisa sitwell means: English poet (1887-1964)

dame edith sitwell means: English poet (1887-1964)

dame ellen terry means: English actress (1847-1928)

dame jean iris murdoch means: British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999)

dame joan sutherland means: Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)

dame kiri janette te kanawa means: New Zealand operatic soprano (born in 1944)

dame kiri te kanawa means: New Zealand operatic soprano (born in 1944)

dame margot fonteyn means: English dancer who danced with Rudolf Nureyev (born in 1919)

dame muriel spark means: Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

adequateness means: the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:

african gray means: commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face; native to equatorial Africa

alleghenies means: the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia

angelica sylvestris means: European herb with compound leaves and white flowers; adventive on Cape Breton Island

carnally means: in a carnal manner

francis scott key means: United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

maladjusted means: not well adjusted

maladjusted means: poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living

maladjusted means: emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

momentum means: the product of a body's mass and its velocity

momentum means: an impelling force or strength

pink-lavender means: of lavender tinged with pink

promycelium means: the basidium of various fungi

pyracantha means: any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries

quarter sessions means: a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions

reckoner means: a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation

reckoner means: an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

test-tube baby means: a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body; the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus

thetis means: (Greek mythology) one of the 50 Nereids; mother of Achilles by Peleus

twine means: a lightweight cord