dais / days / daze / deys [deiz]
dais - n. – a low platform, usually at the upper end of a room and used to support a table, lectern, throne, etc.
days – n. pl. of day – 1. the time between sunrise and sunset; 2. a 24-hour period; 3. the lifetime of a person or thing; 4. a period of the past or present
daze – n. & v. – n. – a state of confusion of bewilderment; v. – stupefy, bewilder
deys – n. – a ruling official of the Ottoman empire in northern Africa, especially a governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830