5-Letter Words Starting D & Ending NS

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• the first light of day

• the earliest period

• an opening time period

• become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

• appear or develop

• become light

• something of little value

• extremely

• used as expletives

• expletives used informally as intensifiers

• wish harm upon; invoke evil upon

• A secret; secrecy.

• A secret place; hiding.

• An obscure language.

• Darkness; obscurity.

• A gatepost or doorpost.

• something of little value

• sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)

• repair by sewing

• an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college

• United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)

• a man who is the senior member of a group

• (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals