Middle School Vocabulary
114,351 words and 1,048 expressions at the middle school level.
A player of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
plural of D&Der
A surname.
Alternative form of d'aw.
Alternative form of DNB (“drum and bass”).
do you?
plural of d*ck
plural of D-bag
A subgenre of hardcore punk.
6 June 1944, the date when the Allies invaded western Europe in World War II.
plural of D-Day
A tone one semitone lower than a D, denoted D♭.
A sound hole, shaped like the letter D, through the top surface of a string instrument.
An informal list of individuals in any of several categories, especially in the entertainment industry, whose celebrity is so obscure that they are generally only known for appearances as participants on panel game shows and reality television.
short for Deutsche Mark
Synonym of dumpster diving.
plural of d-man
Initialism of dysphoric milk ejection reflex.
A plus-shaped directional input pad on a video game controller that allows for eight degrees of movement, now largely superseded by the thumbstick.
plural of d-pad
A D-pillar.
A piece of metal shaped like the letter D, used primarily as a lashing point.
an electrical connector with two or more rows of pins or sockets surrounded by a D-shaped metal shield
plural of D-sub
A digital video recording format developed by JVC.
The word damn.
Alternative form of DAT.
Initialism of Doctor of acupuncture.
plural of D.Ac.
Initialism of database analyst.
Abbreviation of United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, as used in case citations.
Alternative form of DDs; plural of D.D.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of Columbia, as used in case citations.
Alternative form of DDS.
Alternative form of DFA.
Initialism of Doctor of Humane Letters.
Initialism of Doctor of Information Technology, a terminal degree.
plural of D.L.
Initialism of Doctor of Letters
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, as used in case citations.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, as used in case citations.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, as used in case citations.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, as used in case citations.
Alternative form of DOB (“date of birth”).
Alternative form of DOD.
Alternative form of DOF (In the sense Degree(s) of Freedom.)
plural of D.O.
Alternative spelling of DOT.
Alternative form of DOW.
Initialism of Doctor of Public Health, a terminal degree.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, as used in case citations.
Alternative form of DPT.
Alternative form of DRC.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, as used in case citations.
Abbreviation of United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, as used in case citations.
Initialism of United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, as used in case citations.
Alternative form of DSW
Initialism of Doctor of Science.
Alternative form of DUI.
Abbreviation of United States District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands, as used in case citations.
Initialism of driving while intoxicated.
Abbreviation of Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer.
Alternative form of dba (“doing business as”).
A term designating both deaf people (those who have lost their hearing later in life) and Deaf people (those who identify as culturally Deaf).
Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
simple past and past participle of D/L
present participle and gerund of D/L
plural of d00d
plural of d00d
A die roll used for example in some role-playing games and wargames to generate a random number between 1 and 1000. The most common method is to roll 3 differently colored d10s, where each color has been designated to represent one of the three digits.
plural of d1000
plural of d100
A county-level city of Baicheng, Jilin, China.
Alternative form of Daesh.
Alternative form of Daesh.
Alternative form of dawah.
plural of daad
dacoit; bandit; armed robber
plural of daaku
plural of daal
A female slave.
plural of daasi
An official of the Chinese government wearing a white biosafety suit.
Alternative form of tapao.
A kind of lunchbox or food container.
Alternative form of dubber (“globular vessel”).
plural of dabba
simple past and past participle of dab
A thing or person that dabs.
To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Damp.
Abbreviation of diazabicyclooctane.
A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A spicy Indian burger made with potatoes, served in a bun with chutney and garnishes.
A small seaport town in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in India, formerly (in the 15th and 16th centuries) a major centre of Islamic trade.
Beta Capricorni, a multiple star system in the constellation of Capricornus.
Alternative spelling of dabke.
Alternative spelling of dabke.
A folk dance of the Levant.
Alternative spelling of dabke.
Alternative spelling of dabke.
A surname from Norman.
A large, venomous Asiatic viper of the genus Daboia.
Synonym of Daocheng: the Tibetan-derived name.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Alternative form of Dabhol.
Alternative form of Dabhol.
plural of DAc.
Archaic spelling of Dhaka.
cannabis
Acronym of direct air carbon capture and sequestration/storage.
plural of dace
A surname from Irish.
plural of Dacey
plural of dacha
A town and rural district of Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany.
A group of islands of Jiaojiang district, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
plural of dacha
A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.
An ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them.
a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia.
Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.
An igneous, volcanic rock with a high iron content.
simple past and past participle of dack
To slacken pace; to hesitate.
third-person singular simple present indicative of dack
plural of DACL
Any of a number of species of tanager in the genus Dacnis.
Dacian
Alternative spelling of dacoit.
A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
Archaic form of dacoit.
plural of dacoo
Alternative form of Dakota.
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4526).
A surname.
A polymer, polyethylene terephthalate PET, as used for making thread and cloth.
A surname from Portuguese.
A city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States.
recreational drugs
Father’s father; paternal grandfather.
A surname from Italian.
An island of Lieyu, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
A neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
plural of dada
Alternative spelling of dad bod.
Alternative form of dada (“father”).
plural of dadda
simple past and past participle of dad
Alternative spelling of daddy.
Alternative spelling of daddy-o.
To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
A surname
A subdistrict of Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a town.
Euphemistic form of goddamned.
A language of Papua New Guinea, of the Trans-New Guinea family.
A large, two-stringed Chinese bowed string instrument.
A surname.
plural of Dadio
Alternative form of dadny.
An advance paid to a craftsman, a weaver, etc. by a trader in the goods produced.
simple past and past participle of dado
plural of dado
A surname.
plural of dado
A right tributary of the Agout in Occitania, France.
A surname.
A tehsil in the district of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, union territory of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, India.
A torchbearer in the Eleusinian Mysteries.
A substance (of unknown composition) derived from turpentine
plural of Dady
Awesome, cool.
Skilful, ingenious, cunning.
A city in South Korea.
A female divinity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries.
A minor deity or divinity.
Initialism of Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
An administrative division in parts of West Africa and Southeast Asia.
Synonym of ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State
A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature, usually considered as a demon.
plural of daeva
A county of Bijie, Guizhou, China.
Alternative spelling of dafuq.
A suburban village in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5201).
simple past and past participle of daff
A surname from Welsh, derived from the Welsh equivalent of David.
A surname.
plural of daff
A diminutive of the female given name Daphne.
Initialism of Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (an aeronautical database).
Former name of Nyishi (“an Indian people”).
A city 10 km south of downtown Athens in Attica, Greece.
plural of DAFN
A surname.
A record or register consisting of a set of loose sheets filed on a string or tied up in a cloth.
To make or become daft.
comparative form of daft: more daft
Alternative form of dafty.
In a daft manner.
A daft person.
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
Alternative form of dagoba.
Synonym of lemonwood (“Calycophyllum candidissimum”).
A municipality of Leyte, Philippines.
A surname from Hebrew.
A district of Bhutan.
plural of Dagan
A surname from Italian.
An important god in Irish mythology, portrayed as a father figure, king, and druid.
A barangay of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines.
Alternative spelling of degen.
plural of dagen
A surname from Catalan.
plural of Dager
plural of dage
A symbol used in Hebrew script to denote a geminated consonant, or a consonant pronounced as a plosive as opposed to as a fricative.
Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, or a similar plant of the species Leonotis leonurus.
plural of dagga
Obsolete form of dag (“dagger”).
simple past and past participle of dag
An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments.
Tarry oil of European white birch, formerly used in the arts and in medicine.
To drag or trail through water, mud, or slush
A surname.
goddamn
Alternative form of Daur.
Alternative form of Daur.
A surname.
plural of DAGL
A female given name from the Germanic languages of Danish origin, in occasional use since the end of the 19th century.
damn (as an expletive)
A stupa.
plural of dago
The main god of the Phoenicians. Although at one time believed to be represented as half man and half fish, modern scholarship recognizes that the latter was the apkallu, while Dagan/Dagon was a grain god.
A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Former name of Yangon.
Alternative form of Daur.
A surname from French.
plural of Dagor
plural of dago
Synonym of Kaohsiung.
A county of Zhaotong, Yunnan, China.
A surname from French.
plural of Dague
A barangay of Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
Alternative form of Daur.
plural of Dagur
A district of Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, China.
A village and commune of Iași County, Romania.
A surname.
A people living in coastal Kenya.
plural of Dahal
A surname.
plural of Dahan
A surname.
A surname.
plural of Daher
A suburb in southern Beirut, Lebanon.
A surname.
plural of Dahir
comparative form of dahk: more dahk
A surname.
A district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
A surname.
plural of Dahle
Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
A Semitic language spoken in the Dahlak Archipelago of Eritrea.
inulin
A surname.
plural of dahl
A surname.
A surname.
plural of Dahm
plural of Dahn
A city and district in Gujarat, India.
Ilex cassine, a holly native to the southeastern coast of North America.
Alternative form of Daur.
plural of Dahur
plural of dahu
The daughter of Gradlon, king of the city of Ys.
Alternative form of Debal (“ancient port near modern Karachi”).
A pinafore.
Synonym of Taedong: the Japanese-derived name
Synonym of Khanbalik
plural of daie
A surname.
A business practice in which a person outside of China purchases commodities for a customer in mainland China.
A surname from French.
Alternative form of tai ji.
To deck out; to adorn.
An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.
A Japanese longbow.
Alternative form of Daylam.
A surname from Irish.
Obsolete form of daily.
A surname.
plural of Daily
Dated form of daimyo.
Synonym of demon, particularly as
Alternative form of daimyo.
didn't
A surname.
Dried fish, usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun- and air-dried.
plural of Dain
Dainty.
The characteristic of being dainty.
Alternative form of daerah.
plural of daira
Synonym of Dalian: the Japanese-derived name.
Any crab in the family Dairidae.
A surname.
plural of dais.
A surname from Irish.
Alternative form of Daesh.
A traditional Japanese pair of swords, consisting of the katana and wakizashi.
A female given name from English.
plural of Daisy
An ear piercing in the inner cartilage just above the earhole.
plural of daith
Any of a clan or race of Asuras, the children of Diti and the sage Kashyapa.
Alternative form of daeva.
plural of daiva
A surname from Arabic.
Any member of the family Dajidae of tiny ectoparasites of krill.
plural of dajid
false messiah, deceiver
Alternative spelling of dayereh.
plural of dajre
The capital city of Senegal.
The indigenous people of a large portion of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Alternative form of dicker (“unit of 10 items”).
plural of daker
plural of Dake
A city in Western Sahara.
Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”).
A surname transferred from the given name.
Alternative spelling of da kine.
A sacred female spirit.
plural of Dakin
Alternative form of daker.
plural of dakir
Dated spelling of Dhaka.
simple past and past participle of dak
Alternative spelling of dacoit.
Dated form of dacoit.
plural of dakoo
The Santee branch of the Sioux people.
"the skilled one", is an ancient creator god, one of the Prajapatis.
An intermediary or go-between.
A banner in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
A young woman who has passed puberty but is not yet married; an eligible young woman.
A broker; a middleman.
plural of dalal
A barangay of Baroy, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.
A barangay of Dinalupihan, Bataan, Philippines.
A female given name.
A barangay of Labo, Camarines Norte, Philippines.
The currency of the Gambia, divided into 100 bututs.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
A light canoe employed by the Chonos, a nomadic indigenous people of southern Chile.
plural of dalca
A Hyderabadi stew made from mutton, chana dal, and tamarind.
Alternative form of dalet.
Alternative form of dalet.
plural of daled
evidence
Alternative form of haleem (“stew”).
A member of a species of extraterrestrial cyborg mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and their fanatical obsession with exterminating other, non-Dalek beings.
plural of Dalek
A surname from Norwegian.
plural of Dalen
A surname.
plural of Daleo
plural of dale
The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Alternative form of dalet.
plural of dalet
A surname from Irish.
plural of Daley
A surname.
A major subprovincial city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
plural of Dalia
A barangay of Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines.
A special protective power or ability, of divine origin, held by certain families in West Africa.
A surname.
A barangay of Cawayan, Masbate, Philippines.
A member of a South Asian group of people traditionally regarded as untouchables or outcastes.
plural of Dalit
A township in Yunyang district, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
A surname.
plural of Dalke
A suburb and coastal resort in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 2626).
plural of dalk
Abbreviation of Dallas.
A surname.
A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.
The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge.
A surname.
A surname.
A kind of watercourse found in parts of West Africa.
A rare English surname, said to mean "from the dale."
A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
plural of dall
To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
plural of Dally
A surname.
A city in western Ivory Coast.
A surname from Italian.
A small town in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2949)
A surname from Italian.
A habitational surname from Old English.
plural of Dalto
A surname.
A male given name.
plural of DALY
The capital of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India.
plural of daman
A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis.
A native of Damaraland.
A male given name.
plural of damar
A drum having two heads opposite one another, commonly used in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname from Italian.
A rascal; a dishonest person; a man belonging to a criminal gang.
A surname.
A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa.
plural of dambo.
A surname.
To make a dame.
simple past and past participle of dame
The ruler of the Wolof kingdom of Cayor.
A Dardic language spoken by the people of the valley of Damil-Nasar of Pakistan.
plural of damel
Of, relating to, or befitting a dame (all senses)
A village near Keighley, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0538).
plural of dame
Alternative form of damphu.
plural of DAMF
A barangay of Enrique B. Magalona, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
A goddess of the fertile earth.
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
A surname from Italian.
A male given name from Ancient Greek, the French equivalent of Damian
A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
A ceremonial register of the Australian Aboriginal Lardil language; the only language outside of Africa to use click consonants in its phonology.
the act of performing as a pantomime dame
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
Alternative form of damma.
The capital city of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.
A surname from Dutch.
Alternative form of damar.
plural of damma
Expressing anger or vehemence.
simple past and past participle of dam
One who builds a dam.
Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
Alternative form of damme (“damn me”).
Alternative form of damn.
third-person singular simple present indicative of damnd
Godforsaken.
One who damns.
Synonym of Damnonii.
Synonym of dammit.
third-person singular simple present indicative of damn
harm; detriment
A district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
The Celtic goddess of cows.
A daughter of Danaus.
A surname from Italian.
A surname.
simple past and past participle of damp
To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
comparative form of damp: more damp
A double-sided disk-shaped drum of Nepalese origin.
In a damp manner.
Obsolete form of damn.
plural of damp
dampness
Somewhat damp.
Alternative form of dumri.
Alternative form of dumri.
plural of damri
A surname.
The tricyclic lactone (3aS,6S,6aS,9aR,9bR)-6,9a-dimethyl-3-methylidene-3a,4,5,6,6a,7,8,9b-octahydroazuleno[8,7-b]furan-2,9-dione
A surname.
plural of Damu
A Greek; a member of any of the Greek peoples (in ancient times).
The mother of Perseus by Zeus.
A female given name.
A surname from Irish.
Any member of the family Danaidae, now considered to be the nymphalid subfamily Danainae.
A surname.