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Meaning of Cultural Terms
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Here are the list of terms beginning with letter "D".
Dachau
Daedalus
Daley, Mayor Richard
dacha
Dali, Salvador
Dallas, TX
Damascus
Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.
damn with faint praise
Daniel in the lions’ den
danke schön
Damocles, sword of
Dante Alighieri
Danton
Danube River
Dark Ages
dark horse
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
dash (_)
data
date which will live in infamy
David (Bible)
David Copperfield (title)
David of Michelangelo, the (image)
Davis, Jefferson
Davy Jones’s locker
DC
D-Day
dead bury their dead., Let the
dead heat
dead languages
Dead Sea Scrolls
Death of a Salesman (title)
Death Valley
Dead Sea
Debs, Eugene
debtor nation
decadence
decibel
Declaration of Independence
declarative sentence
deduction
deciduous
de facto segregation
default
defense mechanism
deficit financing
definite article
deflation
de Gaulle, Charles
De gustibus non est disputandem
Degas, Edgar
deism
déjà vu
de jure
Delaware
Delhi
Delphic oracle
delusion
demagogue
Demeter (Ceres)
Dc Mille, Cecil B.
democracy
Democratic party
demography
demonstrative pronouns
Demosthenes
Denmark
denotation
denoument
Denver, CO
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Education
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
dependent clause (grammar)
depletion allowance
Department of the Treasury
deposit (geology)
depreciation
Depression, the Great
de rigueur
desalinization
Descartes, René
despotism
de-Stalinization
Des Moines, IA
détente
determinism
deterrence
Detroit, MI
deus ex machina
devaluation
developing nation
developmental psychology
devil can cite Scripture., The
Dewey, John
diabetes
dialectic
dialectical materialism
dialysis
diameter
diamond in the rough
Diana (Artemis)
Diary of a Young Girl (title) |
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Dictatorship
Dido
diehards
dielectric
diction
Dien Bien Phu
diffraction
diffusion
Dillinger, John
Diogenes
Dionysus (Bacchus)
diplomatic immunity
dinosaur
direct object
direct primary
disciples
discount
Discretion is the better part of
valor.
Disney, Walt
Disraeli, Benjamin
disenfranchise
dissidents
distillation
district attorney
District of Columbia
divestiture
dividend
Divine Comedy, The (title)
divine rights of kings
divinity that shapes our ends.,
There’s a
division of labor
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (title)
Doctor Livingstone, I presume?
dog days
dog in the manger
dog is a man’s best friend., A
dogma
dollar diplomacy
Doll’s House, A (title)
dominant trait
Dominican Republic
domino theory
Donald Duck
Don Giovanni (title)
Don Juan
donkey
Donne, John
donnybrook
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Don Quixote (title)
Don River
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
Don’t cry over spilled milk.
Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
Don’t give up the ship.
Don’t hide your light under a bushel.
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
Doppler effect
Doric
Dos Passos, John
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Double, double, toil and trouble.
double entendre
double helix
double indemnity
double jeopardy
doubting Thomas
doughboy
Douglas, Stephen A.
Douglas, William 0.
Douglass, Frederick
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
doves and hawks
Dow-Jones average
Down in the Valley (song)
down payment
Down’s syndrome (mongolism)
draconian
Dracula
draft (military)
draft
dodger
Drake, Sir Francis
dramatis personae
Dred Scott decision
Dreyfus affair
Drink to me only with thine eyes...
drive a nail into one’s coffin
dualism
Dublin
Du Bois, W.E.B.
due process of law
dumping
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Dunkirk
duodenum
Dürer, Albrecht
dust bowl
Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.
Dutch treat
Dylan, Bob
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