| dolorous | Feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress | |
| doggerel | Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm | |
| doctrinaire | A person who seeks to impose a doctrine without regard to practical considerations | |
| docile | Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive | |
| divisive | Tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people | |
| divergent | Tending to be different or develop in different directions | |
| dither | to be indecisive or to hesitate | |
| distension | The act of expanding or being expanded; swelling | |
| disseminated | Scattered or spread widely | |
| dissemble | To hide one's true feelings, opinions, or beliefs | |