danish pastry

light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese ;

dankness

unpleasant wetness ;

danmark

a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea ;

dano-norwegian

one of two official languages of Norway; closely related to Danish ;

danse du ventre

a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen ;

danse macabre

a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave ;

danseur

a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina ;

danseur noble

a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina ;

danseuse

a female ballet dancer ;

dante

an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) ;

dante alighieri

an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) ;

dante gabriel rossetti

English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882) ;

danton

French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794) ;

danton true young

United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955) ;

danu

Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann; identified with the Welsh Don ;

danube

the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube" ;

danube river

the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube" ;

danzig

a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century ;

daoism

philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events ;

daphne

(Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo ; any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers ;

daphne cneorum

widely cultivated low evergreen shrub with dense clusters of fragrant pink to deep rose flowers ;

daphne du maurier

English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989) ;

daphne family

family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa ;

daphne laureola

bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers ;

daphne mezereum

small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs ;

daphnia

minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae ;

dapperness

stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance ;

dapple

a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red" ;

dapple-gray

grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings ;

dapple-grey

grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings ;

dappled-gray

grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings ;

dappled-grey

grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings ;

dapsang

a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high) ;

dapsone

antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases ;

dar al-harb

areas where Muslims are in the minority and are persecuted ;

dar al-islam

areas where Muslims are in the majority ;

dar es salaam

the capital and largest port city of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean ;

daraf

a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad ;

dard

any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan ;

dardan

a native of ancient Troy ;