Words that start with D

A duckling is a baby duck.

Duct tape, also called duck tape, is a type of cloth-backed tape that is often coated with plastic on the non-sticky side. Duct tape is extremely strong and sticky, and can be used to repair a huge variety of things. Some people make things like clothing out of duct tape.

A duel is a fight between two people that are both using the same or similar weapons. Duels were once a formal way of settling a disagreement or as payback for an insult. Duels often had rules of conduct, and duels happened between two people of equal social status, usually gentlemen or upper class men. A duel is not the same as dual.

Dug is the past tense of dig.

Dull can mean many things. It might mean a knife or blade that is not sharp. It might mean something that is very uninteresting and boring. Or it might mean something like the bird in the picture, which has very muted colors rather than rich, bright, intense colors.