English Vocabulary with Meanings — dormant … endorse
Every English word from the Akshara word game with its everyday meaning — the same reviewed definitions players see at the end of each level. Part 10 of 36 · 8,882 words in total.
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- dormant
- inactive but capable of becoming active
- dorsal
- facing away from the axis of an organ or organism
- dory
- marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
- dos
- an operating system that is on a disk
- dosage
- a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
- dose
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- dossier
- a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)
- dot
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- double
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- doubles
- tennis played with two players on each side
- doubly
- to double the degree
- doubt
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- dough
- a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
- douglas
- United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery
- dove
- any of numerous small pigeons
- dover
- the capital of the state of Delaware
- down
- toward or in a lower place or position
- downer
- a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
- downing
- United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)
- dowry
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- dozen
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
- dozens
- a large number or amount
- drab
- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- draco
- a reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards
- draft
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- drag
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- dragon
- any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
- drain
- emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- drained
- drained of electric charge
- drake
- adult male of a wild or domestic duck
- drama
- the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
- draper
- a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
- drastic
- forceful and extreme and rigorous
- draught
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- draw
- the act of drawing or hauling something
- drawer
- a boxlike container in a piece of furniture
- drawers
- underpants worn by women
- drawing
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- drawn
- having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut
- dread
- fearful expectation or anticipation
- dream
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- dreamer
- someone who is dreaming
- dreamy
- dreamy in mood or nature
- dredge
- a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
- dress
- clothing in general
- drew
- United States actor (born in Ireland)
- dreyfus
- French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)
- dribble
- the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
- dried
- preserved by removing natural moisture
- drier
- an appliance that removes moisture
- drift
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- drill
- a tool for making holes, or practice done again and again
- drink
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- drip
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
- drive
- the act of applying force to propel something
- driven
- strongly motivated to succeed
- driver
- a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
- driving
- the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- drone
- stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- drool
- saliva spilling from the mouth
- drop
- the act of dropping something
- dropout
- someone who quits school before graduation
- drought
- a shortage of rainfall
- drove
- a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- drown
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- drug
- a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
- drum
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- drunk
- someone who is intoxicated
- dry
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- dryer
- an appliance that removes moisture
- dual
- a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
- duality
- (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry
- dub
- the new sounds added by dubbing
- dubai
- port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf
- dubious
- fraught with uncertainty or doubt
- dublin
- capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic
- duck
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- duct
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- dude
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- due
- that which is deserved or owed
- duel
- any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
- duet
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- duff
- a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
- dug
- an udder or breast or teat
- duke
- a British peer of the highest rank
- dull
- make less lively or vigorous
- dulles
- United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959)
- duly
- at the proper time
- dumb
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- dumbass
- a stupid person
- dummy
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- dump
- a place where supplies can be stored
- dumping
- selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market
- dumps
- an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
- dun
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- duncan
- United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927)
- dune
- a ridge of sand created by the wind
- dung
- fecal matter of animals
- dungeon
- a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
- dunk
- a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
- dunkirk
- an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
- duo
- a musical composition for two performers
- durable
- existing for a long time
- durant
- United States historian (1885-1981)
- durban
- a port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean
- duress
- compulsory force or threat
- durham
- English breed of short-horned cattle
- dusk
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- dust
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- dusty
- lacking originality or spontaneity
- dutch
- the West Germanic language of the Netherlands
- duty
- work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
- dvd
- a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set
- dwarf
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- dwell
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- dye
- a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
- dyed
- (used of color) artificially produced
- dyer
- someone whose job is to dye cloth
- dying
- the time when something ends
- dylan
- Celtic god of the waves
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- dynamo
- generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature
- dynasty
- a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
- each
- to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
- eager
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- eagle
- any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
- ear
- the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- earl
- a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
- earlier
- (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than
- early
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
- earn
- earn on some commercial or business transaction
- earned
- gained or acquired
- earnest
- something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
- earring
- jewelry to ornament the ear
- earth
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- earthly
- of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven
- earthy
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- ease
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- eased
- (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear
- easily
- indicating high probability
- easing
- the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
- east
- a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city
- easter
- a wind from the east
- eastern
- from the east
- eastman
- United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
- easy
- obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- eat
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- eater
- any green goods that are good to eat
- eating
- the act of consuming food
- eats
- an informal word for food
- ebb
- the outward flow of the tide
- ebola
- a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus
- ebony
- a very dark black
- echo
- an imitation or repetition
- eclipse
- one celestial body obscures another
- economy
- an act of economizing
- ect
- the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma
- eczema
- generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin
- eddy
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- eden
- a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation
- edgar
- the younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy
- edge
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- edged
- having a specified kind of border or edge
- edging
- border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)
- edgy
- being in a tense state
- edible
- any substance that can be used as food
- edict
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- edison
- United States inventor
- edit
- prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- edited
- improved or corrected by critical editing
- editing
- putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
- edition
- something a little different from others of the same type
- editor
- (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
- edo
- the capital and largest city of Japan
- eds
- a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers
- educate
- create by training and teaching
- edward
- son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)
- edwards
- American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)
- edwin
- king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)
- eeg
- a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain
- eel
- voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
- eerie
- inspiring a feeling of fear
- effect
- an outward appearance
- effects
- property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business
- effort
- a notable achievement
- egg
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes
- eggs
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- ego
- (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
- egypt
- an ancient empire to the west of Israel
- eight
- one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face
- eighth
- one part in eight equal parts
- eighty
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
- either
- after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'
- elastic
- a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material
- elbow
- the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow
- elder
- a person who is older than you are
- elderly
- people who are old collectively
- eldest
- the offspring who came first in the order of birth
- elect
- an exclusive group of people
- elected
- subject to popular election
- elegant
- refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
- element
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up
- elf
- below 3 kilohertz
- elijah
- a Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols
- eliot
- British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)
- elisa
- an assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria)
- elite
- a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
- elixir
- a substance believed to cure all ills
- elk
- common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
- ellison
- United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994)
- elm
- any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
- elves
- an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources
- elvis
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- embargo
- a government order imposing a trade barrier
- embark
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
- embassy
- a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work
- embody
- represent, as of a character on stage
- embrace
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- embryo
- an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
- emerald
- the green color of an emerald
- emerson
- United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)
- emery
- a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite
- emile
- the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- emilia
- tropical African herbs
- eminent
- of imposing height
- emir
- an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)
- emit
- expel (gases or odors)
- emmy
- an annual award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in television
- emotion
- any strong feeling
- empathy
- understanding and entering into another's feelings
- emperor
- large richly colored butterfly
- empire
- an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh
- employ
- the state of being employed or having a job
- empower
- give or delegate power or authority to
- empty
- a container that has been emptied
- emu
- large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller
- emulate
- compete with successfully
- enable
- render capable or able for some task
- enact
- act out
- enamel
- any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze
- encased
- covered or protected with or as if with a case
- encore
- an extra or repeated performance
- end
- the final part or farthest point of something
- ended
- having come or been brought to a conclusion
- endemic
- a plant that is native to a certain limited area
- endgame
- the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board
- ending
- the act of ending something
- endless
- having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole
- endorse
- sign as evidence of legal transfer