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D Dictionary D - The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
Dab Dictionary D - noun A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
Dabbed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dab.
Dabbing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dab.
Dabb Dictionary D - noun A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; - called also dhobb, and dhabb.
Dabber Dictionary D - noun That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.
Dabbled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dabble.
Dabbling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dabble.
Dabble Dictionary D - verb transitive To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.
Dabbler Dictionary D - noun One who dabbles.
Dabblingly Dictionary D - adverb In a dabbling manner.
Dabchick Dictionary D - noun A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; - called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
Daboia Dictionary D - noun A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).
Dabster Dictionary D - noun One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
Dacapo Dictionary D - From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; - indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.
Dace Dictionary D - noun A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dare.
Dachshund Dictionary D - noun One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; - called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Dacian Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.
Dacoit Dictionary D - noun One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.
Dacoity Dictionary D - noun The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.
Dacotahs Dictionary D - noun plural Same as Dacotas.
Dactyl Dictionary D - noun A poetical foot of three sylables (- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; - so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
Dactylar Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
Dactylet Dictionary D - noun A dactyl.
Dactylic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
Dactylioglyph Dictionary D - noun An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.
Dactylioglyphi Dictionary D - noun The art or process of gem engraving.
Dactyliography Dictionary D - noun The art of writing or engraving upon gems.
Dactyliology Dictionary D - noun That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.
Dactyliomancy Dictionary D - noun Divination by means of finger rings.
Dactylist Dictionary D - noun A writer of dactylic verse.
Dactylitis Dictionary D - noun An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
Dactylology Dictionary D - noun The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; - a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
Dactylomancy Dictionary D - noun Dactyliomancy.
Dactylonomy Dictionary D - noun The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.
Dactylopterous Dictionary D - adjective Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
Dactylotheca Dictionary D - noun The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.
Dactylozooid Dictionary D - noun A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
Dad Dictionary D - noun Father; - a word sometimes used by children.
Daddled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dadle.
Daddling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dadle.
Dadle Dictionary D - intransitive verb To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
Daddock Dictionary D - noun The rotten body of a tree.
Daddy Dictionary D - noun Diminutive of Dad.
Daddy longlegs Dictionary D - An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; - called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.
Dade Dictionary D - verb transitive To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.
Dadoes Dictionary D - pleural of Dado.
Dado Dictionary D - noun That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
Daedal Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Daedalian.
Daedalian Dictionary D - adjective Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.
Daedalous Dictionary D - adjective Having a variously cut or incised margin; - said of leaves.
Daemon Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Daemonic.
Daemonic Dictionary D - adjective See Demon, Demonic.
Daff Dictionary D - verb transitive To cast aside; to put off; to doff.
Daffodil Dictionary D - noun A plant of the genus Asphodelus.
Daft Dictionary D - adjective Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
Daftness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being daft.
Dag Dictionary D - noun A dagger; a poniard.
Dagger Dictionary D - noun A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
Dagges Dictionary D - noun plural An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans.
Daggled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Daggle.
Daggling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Daggle.
Daggle Dictionary D - verb transitive To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
Daggle-tail Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Daggle-tailed.
Daggle-tailed Dictionary D - adjective Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
Daglock Dictionary D - noun A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.
Dagos Dictionary D - pleural of Dago.
Dago Dictionary D - noun A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.
Dagoba Dictionary D - noun A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
Dagon Dictionary D - The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.
Dagswain Dictionary D - noun A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.
Dag-tailed Dictionary D - adjective Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
Daguerrean Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Daguerreian.
Daguerreian Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.
Daguerreotype Dictionary D - noun An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
Daguerreotyped Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Daguerreotype.
Daguerreotyping Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Daguerreotype.
Daguerreotyper Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Daguerreotypist.
Daguerreotypist Dictionary D - noun One who takes daguerreotypes.
Daguerreotypy Dictionary D - noun The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.
Dahabeah Dictionary D - noun A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.
Dahlias Dictionary D - pleural of Dahlia.
Dahlia Dictionary D - noun A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.
Dahlin Dictionary D - noun A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; - called also inulin. See Inulin.
Dailiness Dictionary D - noun Daily occurence.
Daily Dictionary D - adjective Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
Dailies Dictionary D - pleural of Daily.
Daimios Dictionary D - pleural of Daimio.
Daimio Dictionary D - noun The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
Daint Dictionary D - noun Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.
Daintified Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Daintify.
Daintifying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Daintify.
Daintify Dictionary D - verb transitive To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.
Daintily Dictionary D - adverb In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.
Daintiness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
Daintrel Dictionary D - noun Adelicacy.
Dainties Dictionary D - pleural of Dainty.
Dainty Dictionary D - noun Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
Dairies Dictionary D - pleural of Dairy.
Dairy Dictionary D - noun The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
Dairying Dictionary D - noun The business of conducting a dairy.
Dairymaid Dictionary D - noun A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
Dairymen Dictionary D - pleural of Dairyman.
Dairyman Dictionary D - noun A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
Dairywomen Dictionary D - pleural of Dairywoman.
Dairywoman Dictionary D - noun A woman who attends to a dairy.
Dais Dictionary D - noun The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
Daisied Dictionary D - adjective Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
Daisies Dictionary D - pleural of Daisy.
Daisy Dictionary D - noun A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
Dak Dictionary D - noun Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; - spelt also dawk, and dauk.
Daker Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dakir.
Dakir Dictionary D - noun A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
Daker hen Dictionary D - The corncrake or land rail.
Dakoit Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dakoity.
Dakoity Dictionary D - noun See Dacoit, Dacoity.
Dakota group Dictionary D - A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; - so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
Dakotas Dictionary D - noun plural An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; - also, in part, called Sioux.
Dal Dictionary D - noun Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.
Dale Dictionary D - noun A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
Dalesmen Dictionary D - pleural of Dalesman.
Dalesman Dictionary D - noun One living in a dale; - a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.
Dalf Dictionary D - imp. of Delve.
Dalliance Dictionary D - noun The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Dallier Dictionary D - noun One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.
Dallop Dictionary D - noun A tuft or clump.
Dallied Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dally.
Dallying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dally.
Dally Dictionary D - intransitive verb To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
Dalmania Dictionary D - noun A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites Dictionary D - noun Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatica Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dalmatic.
Dalmatic Dictionary D - noun A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; - imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
Dal segno Dictionary D - A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
Daltonian Dictionary D - noun One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism Dictionary D - noun Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.
Dam Dictionary D - noun A female parent; - used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Dammed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dam.
Damming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dam.
Damage Dictionary D - noun Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
Damages Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Damage.
Damaging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Damage.
Damageable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
Damage feasant Dictionary D - Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
Daman Dictionary D - noun A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; - called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
Damar Dictionary D - noun See Dammar.
Damascene Dictionary D - adjective Of or relating to Damascus.
Damascus Dictionary D - noun A city of Syria.
Damask Dictionary D - noun Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
Damasked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Damask.
Damasking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Damask.
Damaskeen Dictionary D - verb Alt. of Damasken.
Damasken Dictionary D - verb To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
Damaskin Dictionary D - noun A sword of Damask steel.
Damasse Dictionary D - adjective Woven like damask.
Damassin Dictionary D - noun A kind of modified damask or brocade.
Dambonite Dictionary D - noun A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Dambose Dictionary D - noun A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
Dame Dictionary D - noun A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Damewort Dictionary D - noun A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; - called also rocket and dame's violet.
Damiana Dictionary D - noun A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.
Damianist Dictionary D - noun A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Dammar Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dammara.
Dammara Dictionary D - noun An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
Damned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Damn.
Damning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Damn.
Damn Dictionary D - verb transitive To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Damnability Dictionary D - noun The quality of being damnable; damnableness.
Damnable Dictionary D - adjective Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
Damnableness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
Damnably Dictionary D - adverb In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
Damnation Dictionary D - noun The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
Damnatory Dictionary D - adjective Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Damnific Dictionary D - adjective Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
Damnification Dictionary D - noun That which causes damage or loss.
Damnify Dictionary D - verb transitive To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.
Damningness Dictionary D - noun Tendency to bring damnation.
damnum Dictionary D - noun Harm; detriment, either to character or property.
Damosel Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Damoiselle.
Damosella Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Damoiselle.
Damoiselle Dictionary D - noun See Damsel.
Damourite Dictionary D - noun A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
Damp Dictionary D - noun Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Damped Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Damp.
Damping Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Damp.
Dampened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dampen.
Dampening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dampen.
Dampen Dictionary D - verb transitive To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
Damper Dictionary D - noun That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Dampish Dictionary D - adjective Moderately damp or moist.
Dampne Dictionary D - verb transitive To damn.
Dampness Dictionary D - noun Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
Damp off Dictionary D - To decay and perish through excessive moisture.
Dampy Dictionary D - adjective Somewhat damp.
Damsel Dictionary D - noun A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
Damson Dictionary D - noun A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; - called also damask plum.
Dan Dictionary D - noun A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
Danaide Dictionary D - noun A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
Danaite Dictionary D - noun A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
Danalite Dictionary D - noun A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
Danburite Dictionary D - noun A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
Danced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dance.
Dancing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dance.
Dance Dictionary D - intransitive verb To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
Dancer Dictionary D - noun One who dances or who practices dancing.
Danceress Dictionary D - noun A female dancer.
Dancette Dictionary D - adjective Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
Dancy Dictionary D - adjective Same as Dancette.
Dandelion Dictionary D - noun A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
Dander Dictionary D - noun Dandruff or scurf on the head.
Dandi Dictionary D - noun A boatman; an oarsman.
Dandie Dictionary D - noun One of a breed of small terriers; - called also Dandie Dinmont.
Dandified Dictionary D - adjective Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
Dandifying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dandify.
Dandify Dictionary D - verb transitive To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.
Dandiprat Dictionary D - noun A little fellow; - in sport or contempt.
Dandled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dandle.
Dandling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dandle.
Dandle Dictionary D - verb transitive To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
Dandler Dictionary D - noun One who dandles or fondles.
Dandriff Dictionary D - noun See Dandruff.
Dandruff Dictionary D - noun A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.
Dandies Dictionary D - pleural of Dandy.
Dandy Dictionary D - noun One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
Dandy-cock Dictionary D - noun feminine Alt. of Dandy-hen.
Dandy-hen Dictionary D - noun feminine A bantam fowl.
Dandyish Dictionary D - adjective Like a dandy.
Dandyism Dictionary D - noun The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Dandyise Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
Dandyling Dictionary D - noun A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
Dane Dictionary D - noun A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
Danegeld Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Danegelt.
Danegelt Dictionary D - noun An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
Danewort Dictionary D - noun A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; - called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes..
Dang Dictionary D - imp. of Ding.
Danger Dictionary D - noun Authority; jurisdiction; control.
Dangerful Dictionary D - adjective Full of danger; dangerous.
Dangerless Dictionary D - adjective Free from danger.
Dangerous Dictionary D - adjective Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Dangled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dangle.
Dangling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dangle.
Dangle Dictionary D - intransitive verb To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
Dangleberry Dictionary D - noun A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
Dangler Dictionary D - noun One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
Daniel Dictionary D - noun A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.
Danish Dictionary D - adjective Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.
Danite Dictionary D - noun A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
Dank Dictionary D - adjective Damp; moist; humid; wet.
Dankish Dictionary D - adjective Somewhat dank.
Dannebrog Dictionary D - noun The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.
Danseuse Dictionary D - noun A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Dansk Dictionary D - adjective Danish.
Dansker Dictionary D - noun A Dane.
Dantean Dictionary D - adjective Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.
Dantesque Dictionary D - adjective Dantelike; Dantean.
Danubian Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.
Dap Dictionary D - intransitive verb To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
Dapatical Dictionary D - adjective Sumptuous in cheer.
Daphne Dictionary D - noun A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
Daphnetin Dictionary D - noun A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.
Daphnia Dictionary D - noun A genus of the genus Daphnia.
Daphnin Dictionary D - noun A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.
Daphnomancy Dictionary D - noun Divination by means of the laurel.
Dapifer Dictionary D - noun One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.
Dapper Dictionary D - adjective Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
Dapperling Dictionary D - noun A dwarf; a dandiprat.
Dapple Dictionary D - noun One of the spots on a dappled animal.
Dappled Dictionary D - adjective Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
Dappling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dapple.
Darbies Dictionary D - noun plural Manacles; handcuffs.
Darby Dictionary D - noun A plasterer's float, having two handles; - used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
Darbyite Dictionary D - noun One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; - so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.
Dardanian Dictionary D - adjective & noun Trojan.
Durst Dictionary D - imperative of Dare.
Dared Dictionary D - of Dare.
Daring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dare.
Dare Dictionary D - intransitive verb To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
Dare-devil Dictionary D - noun A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.
Dare-deviltries Dictionary D - pleural of Dare-deviltry.
Dare-deviltry Dictionary D - n Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.
Dareful Dictionary D - adjective Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.
Darer Dictionary D - noun One who dares or defies.
Darg Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dargue.
Dargue Dictionary D - noun A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
Daric Dictionary D - noun A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.
Dark Dictionary D - adjective Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
Darkened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Darken.
Darkening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Darken.
Darken Dictionary D - adjective To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
Darkener Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, darkens.
Darkful Dictionary D - adjective Full of darkness.
Darkish Dictionary D - adjective Somewhat dark; dusky.
Darkle Dictionary D - intransitive verb To grow dark; to show indistinctly.
Darkling Dictionary D - adverb In the dark.
Darkly Dictionary D - adverb With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
Darkness Dictionary D - noun The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
Darksome Dictionary D - adjective Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
Darky Dictionary D - noun A negro.
Darling Dictionary D - noun One dearly beloved; a favorite.
Darlingtonia Dictionary D - noun A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
Darned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Darn.
Darning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Darn.
Darn Dictionary D - verb transitive To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Darnel Dictionary D - noun Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.
Darner Dictionary D - noun One who mends by darning.
Darnex Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Darnic.
Darnic Dictionary D - noun Same as Dornick.
Daroo Dictionary D - noun The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.
Darr Dictionary D - noun The European black tern.
Darraign Dictionary D - verb transitive Alt. of Darrain.
Darrain Dictionary D - verb transitive To make ready to fight; to array.
Darrein Dictionary D - adjective Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
Dart Dictionary D - noun A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
Darted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dart.
Darting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dart.
Dartars Dictionary D - noun A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
Darter Dictionary D - noun One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
Dartingly Dictionary D - adverb Like a dart; rapidly.
Dartle Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: - frequentative of dart.
Dartoic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the dartos.
Dartoid Dictionary D - adjective Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.
Dartos Dictionary D - noun A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
Dartrous Dictionary D - adjective Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
Darwinian Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.
Darwinianism Dictionary D - noun Darwinism.
Darwinism Dictionary D - noun The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.
Dase Dictionary D - verb transitive See Daze.
Dasewe Dictionary D - intransitive verb To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.
Dashed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dash.
Dashing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dash.
Dash Dictionary D - verb transitive To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; - often used with against.
Dashboard Dictionary D - noun A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; - in England commonly called splashboard.
Dasher Dictionary D - noun That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.
Dashingly Dictionary D - adverb Conspicuously; showily.
Dashism Dictionary D - noun The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.
Dashpot Dictionary D - noun A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
Dashy Dictionary D - adjective Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
Dastard Dictionary D - noun One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
Dastardized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dastardize.
Dastardizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dastardize.
Dastardize Dictionary D - verb transitive To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
Dastardliness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
Dastardly Dictionary D - adjective Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
Dastardness Dictionary D - noun Dastardliness.
Dastardy Dictionary D - noun Base timidity; cowardliness.
Daswe Dictionary D - intransitive verb See Dasewe.
Dasymeter Dictionary D - noun An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.
Dasypaedal Dictionary D - adjective Dasypaedic.
Dasypaedes Dictionary D - noun plural Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.
Dasypaedic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic.
Dasyure Dictionary D - noun A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.
Dasyurine Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
Data Dictionary D - noun plural See Datum.
Datable Dictionary D - adjective That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.
Dataria Dictionary D - noun Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).
Datary Dictionary D - noun An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.
Date Dictionary D - noun The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
Dated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Date.
Dating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Date.
Dateless Dictionary D - adjective Without date; having no fixed time.
Dater Dictionary D - noun One who dates.
Datiscin Dictionary D - noun A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).
Dative Dictionary D - adjective Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
Datively Dictionary D - adverb As a gift.
Datolite Dictionary D - noun A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.
Datum Dictionary D - noun Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; - used chiefly in the plural.
Datura Dictionary D - noun A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.
Daturine Dictionary D - noun Atropine; - called also daturia and daturina.
Daubed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Daub.
Daubing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Daub.
Daub Dictionary D - verb transitive To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
Dauber Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
Daubery Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Daubry.
Daubry Dictionary D - noun A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.
Daubreelite Dictionary D - noun A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
Dauby Dictionary D - adjective Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
Daughters Dictionary D - pleural of Daughter.
Daughtren Dictionary D - pleural of Daughter.
Daughter Dictionary D - noun The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; - applied also to the lower animals.
Daughters-in-law Dictionary D - pleural of Daughter-in-law.
Daughter-in-law Dictionary D - noun The wife of one's son.
Daughterliness Dictionary D - noun The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
Daughterly Dictionary D - adjective Becoming a daughter; filial.
Dauk Dictionary D - verb transitive See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.
Daun Dictionary D - noun A variant of Dan, a title of honor.
Daunted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Daunt.
Daunting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Daunt.
Daunt Dictionary D - verb transitive To overcome; to conquer.
Daunter Dictionary D - noun One who daunts.
Dauntless Dictionary D - adjective Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
Dauphin Dictionary D - noun The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.
Dauphiness Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dauphine.
Dauphine Dictionary D - noun The title of the wife of the dauphin.
Dauw Dictionary D - noun The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); - called also peechi, or peetsi.
Davenport Dictionary D - noun A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
Davidic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.
Davit Dictionary D - noun A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; - called also the fish davit.
Davy Jones Dictionary D - The spirit of the sea; sea devil; - a term used by sailors.
Davy lamp Dictionary D - See Safety lamp, under Lamp.
Davyne Dictionary D - noun A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.
Davyum Dictionary D - noun A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.
Daw Dictionary D - noun A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
Dawdled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dawdle.
Dawdling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dawdle.
Dawdle Dictionary D - intransitive verb To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Dawdler Dictionary D - noun One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Dawe Dictionary D - noun Day.
Dawish Dictionary D - adjective Like a daw.
Dawk Dictionary D - noun See Dak.
Dawned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dawn.
Dawning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dawn.
Dawn Dictionary D - intransitive verb To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
Dawsonite Dictionary D - noun A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.
Day Dictionary D - noun The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
Dayaks Dictionary D - noun plural See Dyaks.
Daybook Dictionary D - noun A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.
Daybreak Dictionary D - noun The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
Day-coal Dictionary D - noun The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.
Daydream Dictionary D - noun A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.
Daydreamer Dictionary D - noun One given to daydreams.
Dayflower Dictionary D - noun A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.
Dayfly Dictionary D - noun A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; - so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
Day-labor Dictionary D - noun Labor hired or performed by the day.
Day-laborer Dictionary D - noun One who works by the day; - usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.
Daylight Dictionary D - noun The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.
Day lily Dictionary D - A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.
Daymaid Dictionary D - noun A dairymaid.
Daymare Dictionary D - noun A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
Day-net Dictionary D - noun A net for catching small birds.
Day-peep Dictionary D - noun The dawn.
Daysman Dictionary D - noun An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
Dayspring Dictionary D - noun The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
Day-star Dictionary D - noun The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
Daytime Dictionary D - noun The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Daywoman Dictionary D - noun A dairymaid.
Dazed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Daze.
Dazing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Daze.
Daze Dictionary D - verb transitive To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
Dazzled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dazzle.
Dazzling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dazzle.
Dazzle Dictionary D - verb transitive To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
Dazzlement Dictionary D - noun Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light.
Dazzlingly Dictionary D - adverb In a dazzling manner.
De- Dictionary D - A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.
Deacon Dictionary D - noun An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
Deaconess Dictionary D - noun A female deacon.
Deaconhood Dictionary D - noun The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
Deaconry Dictionary D - noun See Deaconship.
Deaconship Dictionary D - noun The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.
Dead Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of life; - opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
Dead beat Dictionary D - See Beat, n., 7.
Deadbeat Dictionary D - adjective Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; - said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
Deadborn Dictionary D - adjective Stillborn.
Deadened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deaden.
Deadening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deaden.
Deaden Dictionary D - adjective To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Deadener Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
Dead-eye Dictionary D - noun A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; - used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.
Deadhead Dictionary D - noun One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
Dead-hearted Dictionary D - adjective Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
Deadhouse Dictionary D - noun A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Deadish Dictionary D - adjective Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
Deadlatch Dictionary D - noun A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
Deadlight Dictionary D - noun A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
Deadlihood Dictionary D - noun State of the dead.
Deadliness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being deadly.
Deadlock Dictionary D - noun A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
Deadly Dictionary D - adjective Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
Deadness Dictionary D - noun The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
Dead-pay Dictionary D - noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
Dead-reckoning Dictionary D - noun See under Dead, a.
Deads Dictionary D - noun plural The substances which inclose the ore on every side.
Dead-stroke Dictionary D - adjective Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
Deadwood Dictionary D - noun A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
Deadworks Dictionary D - noun plural The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.
Deaf Dictionary D - adjective Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
Deafened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deafen.
Deafening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deafen.
Deafen Dictionary D - verb transitive To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
Deafly Dictionary D - adverb Without sense of sounds; obscurely.
Deaf-mute Dictionary D - noun A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
Deaf-mutism Dictionary D - noun The condition of being a deaf-mute.
Deafness Dictionary D - noun Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
Deal Dictionary D - noun A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Dealt Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deal.
Dealing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deal.
Dealbate Dictionary D - verb transitive To whiten.
Dealbation Dictionary D - noun Act of bleaching; a whitening.
Dealer Dictionary D - noun One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
Dealfish Dictionary D - noun A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).
Dealth Dictionary D - noun Share dealt.
Deambulate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To walk abroad.
Deambulation Dictionary D - noun A walking abroad; a promenading.
Deambulatory Dictionary D - adjective Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.
Dean Dictionary D - noun A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
Deaneries Dictionary D - pleural of Deanery.
Deanery Dictionary D - noun The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Deanship Dictionary D - noun The office of a dean.
Dear Dictionary D - superlative Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
Dearborn Dictionary D - noun A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.
Dear-bought Dictionary D - adjective Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
Deare Dictionary D - variant of Dere.
Dearie Dictionary D - noun Same as Deary.
Dearling Dictionary D - noun A darling.
Dear-loved Dictionary D - adjective Greatly beloved.
Dearly Dictionary D - adverb In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.
Dearn Dictionary D - adjective Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
Dearness Dictionary D - noun The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
Dearth Dictionary D - noun Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Dearticulate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disjoint.
Dearworth Dictionary D - adjective Precious.
Deary Dictionary D - noun A dear; a darling.
Deas Dictionary D - noun See Dais.
Death Dictionary D - intransitive verb The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Deathbed Dictionary D - noun The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
Deathbird Dictionary D - noun Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); - so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
Deathblow Dictionary D - noun A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Deathful Dictionary D - adjective Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Deathfulness Dictionary D - noun Appearance of death.
Deathless Dictionary D - adjective Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
Deathlike Dictionary D - adjective Resembling death.
Deathliness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being deathly; deadliness.
Deathly Dictionary D - adjective Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
Death's-head Dictionary D - noun A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
Death's-herb Dictionary D - noun The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Deathsman Dictionary D - noun An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
Deathward Dictionary D - adverb Toward death.
Deathwatch Dictionary D - noun A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
Deaurate Dictionary D - adjective Gilded.
Deauration Dictionary D - noun Act of gilding.
Deave Dictionary D - verb transitive To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.
Debacchate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To rave as a bacchanal.
Debacchation Dictionary D - noun Wild raving or debauchery.
Debacle Dictionary D - noun A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
Debarred Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debar.
Debarring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debar.
Debar Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; - with from, and sometimes with of.
Debarb Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of the beard.
Debarked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debark.
Debarking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debark.
Debark Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Debarkation Dictionary D - noun Disembarkation.
Debarment Dictionary D - noun Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
Debarrass Dictionary D - verb transitive To disembarrass; to relieve.
Debased Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debase.
Debasing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debase.
Debase Dictionary D - adjective To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Debasement Dictionary D - noun The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
Debaser Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, debases.
Debasingly Dictionary D - adverb In a manner to debase.
Debatable Dictionary D - adjective Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
Debated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debate.
Debating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debate.
Debate Dictionary D - verb transitive To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Debateful Dictionary D - adjective Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.
Debatefully Dictionary D - adverb With contention.
Debatement Dictionary D - noun Controversy; deliberation; debate.
Debater Dictionary D - noun One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
Debatingly Dictionary D - adverb In the manner of a debate.
Debauched Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debauch.
Debauching Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debauch.
Debauch Dictionary D - noun To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.
Debauchedly Dictionary D - adverb In a profligate manner.
Debauchedness Dictionary D - noun The state of being debauched; intemperance.
Debauchee Dictionary D - verb transitive One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Debaucher Dictionary D - noun One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.
Debaucheries Dictionary D - pleural of Debauchery.
Debauchery Dictionary D - noun Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.
Debauchment Dictionary D - noun The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
Debauchness Dictionary D - noun Debauchedness.
Debeige Dictionary D - noun A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.
Debel Dictionary D - verb transitive To conquer.
Debellate Dictionary D - verb transitive To subdue; to conquer in war.
Debellation Dictionary D - noun The act of conquering or subduing.
De bene esse Dictionary D - Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally.
Debenture Dictionary D - noun A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
Debentured Dictionary D - adjective Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.
Debile Dictionary D - adjective Weak.
Debilitant Dictionary D - adjective Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.
Debilitated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debilitate.
Debilitating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debilitate.
Debilitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
Debilitation Dictionary D - noun The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
Debility Dictionary D - adjective The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
Debit Dictionary D - noun A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; - mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
Debited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debit.
Debiting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debit.
Debitor Dictionary D - noun A debtor.
Debituminization Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving of bitumen.
Debituminize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of bitumen.
Deblai Dictionary D - noun The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
Debonair Dictionary D - adjective Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
Debonairity Dictionary D - noun Debonairness.
Debonairly Dictionary D - adverb Courteously; elegantly.
Debonairness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
Debosh Dictionary D - verb transitive To debauch.
Deboshment Dictionary D - noun Debauchment.
Debouched Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Debouch.
Debouching Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Debouch.
Debouch Dictionary D - intransitive verb To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Debouche Dictionary D - noun A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.
Debouchure Dictionary D - noun The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.
Debris Dictionary D - noun Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Debruised Dictionary D - adjective Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.
Debt Dictionary D - noun That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.
Debted Dictionary D - particle adjective Indebted; obliged to.
Debtee Dictionary D - noun One to whom a debt is due; creditor; - correlative to debtor.
Debtless Dictionary D - adjective Free from debt.
Debtor Dictionary D - noun One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; - correlative to creditor.
Debulliate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To boil over.
Debulition Dictionary D - noun A bubbling or boiling over.
Deburse Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To disburse.
Debuscope Dictionary D - noun A modification of the kaleidoscope; - used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.
Debut Dictionary D - noun A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.
Debutant Dictionary D - Alt. of Debutante.
Debutante Dictionary D - A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.
Deca- Dictionary D - A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit.
Decacerata Dictionary D - noun plural The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; - called also Decapoda. Written also Decacera. See Dibranchiata.
Decachord Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decachordon.
Decachordon Dictionary D - noun An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
Decucuminated Dictionary D - adjective Having the point or top cut off.
Decad Dictionary D - noun A decade.
Decadal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.
Decade Dictionary D - noun A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.
Decadence Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decadency.
Decadency Dictionary D - noun A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.".
Decadent Dictionary D - adjective Decaying; deteriorating.
Decadist Dictionary D - noun A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist.
Decagon Dictionary D - noun A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.
Decagonal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.
Decagram Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decagramme.
Decagramme Dictionary D - noun A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.
Decagynia Dictionary D - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants characterized by having ten styles.
Decagynian Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Deccagynous.
Deccagynous Dictionary D - adjective Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.
Decahedral Dictionary D - adjective Having ten sides.
Decahedrons Dictionary D - pleural of Decahedron.
Decahedra Dictionary D - pleural of Decahedron.
Decahedron Dictionary D - noun A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
Decalcification Dictionary D - noun The removal of calcareous matter.
Decalcified Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decalcify.
Decalcifying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decalcify.
Decalcify Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.
Decalcomania Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decalcomanie.
Decalcomanie Dictionary D - noun The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
Decaliter Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decalitre.
Decalitre Dictionary D - noun A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.
Decalog Dictionary D - noun Decalogue.
Decalogist Dictionary D - noun One who explains the decalogue.
Decalogue Dictionary D - noun The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.
Decameron Dictionary D - noun A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; - written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.
Decameter Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decametre.
Decametre Dictionary D - noun A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.
Decamped Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decamp.
Decamping Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decamp.
Decamp Dictionary D - intransitive verb To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
Decampment Dictionary D - noun Departure from a camp; a marching off.
Decanal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
Decandria Dictionary D - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.
Decandrian Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Decandrous.
Decandrous Dictionary D - adjective Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.
Decane Dictionary D - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
Decangular Dictionary D - adjective Having ten angles.
Decani Dictionary D - adjective Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; - correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.
Decanted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decant.
Decanting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decant.
Decant Dictionary D - verb transitive To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
Decantate Dictionary D - verb transitive To decant.
Decantation Dictionary D - noun The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.
Decanter Dictionary D - noun A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.
Decaphyllous Dictionary D - adjective Having ten leaves.
Decapitated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decapitate.
Decapitating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decapitate.
Decapitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut off the head of; to behead.
Decapitation Dictionary D - noun The act of beheading; beheading.
Decapod Dictionary D - noun A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.
Decapoda Dictionary D - noun plural The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
Deccapodal Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Deccapodous.
Deccapodous Dictionary D - adjective Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
Decarbonate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of carbonic acid.
Decarbonization Dictionary D - noun The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.
Decarbonized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decarbonize.
Decarbonizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decarbonize.
Decarbonize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.
Decarbonizer Dictionary D - noun He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
Decarburization Dictionary D - noun The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
Decarburize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.
Decard Dictionary D - verb transitive To discard.
Decardinalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To depose from the rank of cardinal.
Decastere Dictionary D - noun A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.
Decastich Dictionary D - noun A poem consisting of ten lines.
Decastyle Dictionary D - adjective Having ten columns in front; - said of a portico, temple, etc.
Decasyllabic Dictionary D - adjective Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.
Decatoic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.
Decayed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decay.
Decaying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decay.
Decay Dictionary D - intransitive verb To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
Decayer Dictionary D - noun A causer of decay.
Decease Dictionary D - noun Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
Deceased Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decease.
Deceasing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decease.
Decede Dictionary D - noun To withdraw.
Decedent Dictionary D - adjective Removing; departing.
Deceit Dictionary D - noun An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Deceitful Dictionary D - adjective Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
Deceitfully Dictionary D - adverb With intent to deceive.
Deceitfulness Dictionary D - noun The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.
Deceitless Dictionary D - adjective Free from deceit.
Deceivable Dictionary D - adjective Fitted to deceive; deceitful.
Deceivableness Dictionary D - noun Capability of deceiving.
Deceivably Dictionary D - adverb In a deceivable manner.
Deceived Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deceive.
Deceiving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deceive.
Deceive Dictionary D - verb transitive To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
Deceiver Dictionary D - noun One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.
December Dictionary D - noun The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.
Decemdentate Dictionary D - adjective Having ten points or teeth.
Decemfid Dictionary D - adjective Cleft into ten parts.
Decemlocular Dictionary D - adjective Having ten cells for seeds.
Decempedal Dictionary D - adjective Ten feet in length.
Decemvirs Dictionary D - pleural of Decemvir.
Decemviri Dictionary D - pleural of Decemvir.
Decemvir Dictionary D - noun One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.
Decemviral Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.
Decemvirate Dictionary D - noun The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.
Decemvirship Dictionary D - noun The office of a decemvir.
Decence Dictionary D - noun Decency.
Decencies Dictionary D - pleural of Decency.
Decency Dictionary D - noun The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
Decene Dictionary D - noun One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.
Decennaries Dictionary D - pleural of Decennary.
Decennary Dictionary D - noun A period of ten years.
Decennial Dictionary D - adjective Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games.
Decenniums Dictionary D - pleural of Decennium.
Decennia Dictionary D - pleural of Decennium.
Decennium Dictionary D - noun A period of ten years.
Decennoval Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Decennovary.
Decennovary Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.
Decent Dictionary D - adjective Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
Decentralization Dictionary D - noun The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.
Decentralize Dictionary D - verb transitive To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); - esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
Deceptible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deceived; deceivable.
Deception Dictionary D - noun The act of deceiving or misleading.
Deceptious Dictionary D - adjective Tending deceive; delusive.
Deceptive Dictionary D - adjective Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
Deceptively Dictionary D - adverb In a manner to deceive.
Deceptiveness Dictionary D - noun The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.
Deceptivity Dictionary D - noun Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.
Deceptory Dictionary D - adjective Deceptive.
Decern Dictionary D - verb transitive To perceive, discern, or decide.
Decerniture Dictionary D - noun A decree or sentence of a court.
Decerp Dictionary D - verb transitive To pluck off; to crop; to gather.
Decerpt Dictionary D - adjective Plucked off or away.
Decerptible Dictionary D - adjective That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.
Decerption Dictionary D - noun The act of plucking off; a cropping.
Decertation Dictionary D - noun Contest for mastery; contention; strife.
Decession Dictionary D - noun Departure; decrease; - opposed to accesion.
Decharm Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from a charm; to disenchant.
Dechristianized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dechristianize.
Dechristianizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dechristianize.
Dechristianize Dictionary D - verb transitive To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.
Decidable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being decided; determinable.
Decided Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decide.
Deciding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decide.
Decide Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut off; to separate.
Decidedly Dictionary D - adverb In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
Decidement Dictionary D - noun Means of forming a decision.
Decidence Dictionary D - noun A falling off.
Decider Dictionary D - noun One who decides.
Decidua Dictionary D - noun The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.
Deciduata Dictionary D - noun plural A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.
Deciduate Dictionary D - adjective Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.
Deciduity Dictionary D - noun Deciduousness.
Deciduous Dictionary D - adjective Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.
Deciduousness Dictionary D - noun The quality or state of being deciduous.
Decigram Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decigramme.
Decigramme Dictionary D - noun A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.
Decil Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decile.
Decile Dictionary D - noun An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36.
Deciliter Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decilitre.
Decilitre Dictionary D - noun A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.
Decillion Dictionary D - noun According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..
Decillionth Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.
Decimal Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
Decimalism Dictionary D - noun The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.
Decimalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.
Decimally Dictionary D - adverb By tens; by means of decimals.
Decimated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decimate.
Decimating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decimate.
Decimate Dictionary D - verb transitive To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
Decimation Dictionary D - noun A tithing.
Decimator Dictionary D - noun One who decimates.
Decime Dictionary D - noun A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.
Decimeter Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decimetre.
Decimetre Dictionary D - noun A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.
Decimosexto Dictionary D - noun A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; - usually written 16mo or 16.
Decine Dictionary D - noun One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; - called also decenylene.
Deciphered Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decipher.
Deciphering Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decipher.
Decipher Dictionary D - verb transitive To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
Decipherable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.
Decipherer Dictionary D - noun One who deciphers.
Decipheress Dictionary D - noun A woman who deciphers.
Decipherment Dictionary D - noun The act of deciphering.
Decipiency Dictionary D - noun State of being deceived; hallucination.
Decipium Dictionary D - noun A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.
Decision Dictionary D - noun Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
Decisive Dictionary D - adjective Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
Decisory Dictionary D - adjective Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide.
Decistere Dictionary D - noun The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.
Decitizenize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of the rights of citizenship.
Decivilize Dictionary D - verb transitive To reduce from civilization to a savage state.
Decked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deck.
Decking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deck.
Deck Dictionary D - verb transitive To cover; to overspread.
Deckel Dictionary D - noun Same as Deckle.
Decker Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.
Deckle Dictionary D - noun A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.
Declaimed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Declaim.
Declaiming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Declaim.
Declaim Dictionary D - intransitive verb To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
Declaimant Dictionary D - noun A declaimer.
Declaimer Dictionary D - noun One who declaims; an haranguer.
Declamation Dictionary D - noun The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
Declamator Dictionary D - noun A declaimer.
Declamatory Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
Declarable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being declared.
Declarant Dictionary D - noun One who declares.
Declaration Dictionary D - noun The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
Declarative Dictionary D - adjective Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.
Declaratively Dictionary D - adverb By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.
Declarator Dictionary D - noun A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
Declaratorily Dictionary D - adverb In a declaratory manner.
Declaratory Dictionary D - adjective Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.
Declared Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Declare.
Declaring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Declare.
Declare Dictionary D - verb transitive To make clear; to free from obscurity.
Declaredly Dictionary D - adverb Avowedly; explicitly.
Declaredness Dictionary D - noun The state of being declared.
Declarement Dictionary D - noun Declaration.
Declarer Dictionary D - noun One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.
Declension Dictionary D - noun The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
Declensional Dictionary D - adjective Belonging to declension.
Declinable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Declinal Dictionary D - adjective Declining; sloping.
Declinate Dictionary D - adjective Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
Declination Dictionary D - noun The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Declinator Dictionary D - noun An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
Declinatory Dictionary D - adjective Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Declinature Dictionary D - noun The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Declined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decline.
Declining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decline.
Decline Dictionary D - intransitive verb To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
Decliner Dictionary D - noun He who declines or rejects.
Declinometer Dictionary D - noun An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
Declinous Dictionary D - adjective Declinate.
Declivitous Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Declivous.
Declivous Dictionary D - adjective Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
Declivities Dictionary D - pleural of Declivity.
Declivity Dictionary D - noun Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; - opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
Decocted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decoct.
Decocting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decoct.
Decoct Dictionary D - verb transitive To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
Decoctible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being boiled or digested.
Decoction Dictionary D - noun The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
Decocture Dictionary D - noun A decoction.
Decollated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decollate.
Decollating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decollate.
Decollate Dictionary D - verb transitive To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Decollation Dictionary D - noun The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; - especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Decollete Dictionary D - adjective Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
Decolling Dictionary D - noun Beheading.
Decolor Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of color; to bleach.
Decolorant Dictionary D - noun A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
Decolorate Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of color.
Decoloration Dictionary D - noun The removal or absence of color.
Decolorize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of color; to whiten.
Decomplex Dictionary D - adjective Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
Decomposable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.
Decomposed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decompose.
Decomposing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decompose.
Decompose Dictionary D - verb transitive To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
Decomposite Dictionary D - adjective Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
Decomposition Dictionary D - noun The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
Decompounded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decompound.
Decompounding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decompound.
Decompound Dictionary D - verb transitive To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
Decompoundable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being decompounded.
Deconcentrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.
Deconcentration Dictionary D - noun Act of deconcentrating.
Deconcoct Dictionary D - verb transitive To decompose.
Deconsecrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
Decorament Dictionary D - verb transitive Ornament.
Decorated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decorate.
Decorating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decorate.
Decorate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
Decoration Dictionary D - noun The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
Decorative Dictionary D - adjective Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.
Decorator Dictionary D - noun One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
Decore Dictionary D - verb transitive To decorate; to beautify.
Decorement Dictionary D - noun Ornament.
Decorous Dictionary D - adjective Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
Decorticated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decorticate.
Decorticating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decorticate.
Decorticate Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
Decortication Dictionary D - noun The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
Decorticator Dictionary D - noun A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
Decorum Dictionary D - noun Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
Decoyed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decoy.
Decoying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decoy.
Decoy Dictionary D - verb transitive To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
Decoy-duck Dictionary D - noun A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.
Decoyer Dictionary D - noun One who decoys another.
Decoy-men Dictionary D - pleural of Decoy-man.
Decoy-man Dictionary D - noun A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
Decreased Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decrease.
Decreasing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decrease.
Decrease Dictionary D - noun To grow less, - opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
Decreaseless Dictionary D - adjective Suffering no decrease.
Decreation Dictionary D - noun Destruction; - opposed to creation.
Decree Dictionary D - noun An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
Decreed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decree.
Decreeing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decree.
Decreeable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being decreed.
Decreer Dictionary D - noun One who decrees.
Decreet Dictionary D - noun The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
Decrement Dictionary D - noun The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
Decrepit Dictionary D - adjective Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
Decrepitated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decrepitate.
Decrepitating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decrepitate.
Decrepitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Decrepitation Dictionary D - noun The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitness Dictionary D - noun Decrepitude.
Decrepitude Dictionary D - noun The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
Decrescendo Dictionary D - adjective & adverb With decreasing volume of sound; - a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Decrescent Dictionary D - adjective Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
Decretal Dictionary D - adjective Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.
Decrete Dictionary D - noun A decree.
Decretion Dictionary D - noun A decrease.
Decretist Dictionary D - noun One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
Decretive Dictionary D - noun Having the force of a decree; determining.
Decretorial Dictionary D - adjective Decretory; authoritative.
Decretorily Dictionary D - adverb In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.
Decretory Dictionary D - adjective Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
Decrew Dictionary D - intransitive verb To decrease.
Decrial Dictionary D - noun A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
Decrier Dictionary D - noun One who decries.
Decrown Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
Decrustation Dictionary D - noun The removal of a crust.
Decried Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decry.
Decrying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decry.
Decry Dictionary D - verb transitive To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
Decubation Dictionary D - noun Act of lying down; decumbence.
Decubitus Dictionary D - noun An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.
Decuman Dictionary D - adjective Large; chief; - applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. R. Also used substantively.
Decumbence Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Decumbency.
Decumbency Dictionary D - noun The act or posture of lying down.
Decumbent Dictionary D - adjective Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Decumbently Dictionary D - adverb In a decumbent posture.
Decumbiture Dictionary D - noun Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
Decuple Dictionary D - adjective Tenfold.
Decupled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decuple.
Decupling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decuple.
Decurion Dictionary D - noun A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.
Decurionate Dictionary D - noun The office of a decurion.
Decurrence Dictionary D - noun The act of running down; a lapse.
Decurrent Dictionary D - adjective Extending downward; - said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.
Decursion Dictionary D - noun A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.
Decursive Dictionary D - adjective Running down; decurrent.
Decursively Dictionary D - adverb In a decursive manner.
Decurt Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut short; to curtail.
Decurtation Dictionary D - noun Act of cutting short.
Decuries Dictionary D - pleural of Decury.
Decury Dictionary D - noun A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.
Decussated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Decussate.
Decussating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Decussate.
Decussate Dictionary D - verb transitive To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; - said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.
Decussately Dictionary D - adverb In a decussate manner.
Decussation Dictionary D - noun Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.
Decussative Dictionary D - adjective Intersecting at acute angles.
Decussatively Dictionary D - adverb Crosswise; in the form of an X.
Decyl Dictionary D - noun A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.
Decylic Dictionary D - adjective Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.
Dedalian Dictionary D - adjective See Daedalian.
Dedalous Dictionary D - adjective See Daedalous.
Dedans Dictionary D - noun A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.
Dede Dictionary D - adjective Dead.
Dedecorate Dictionary D - verb transitive To bring to shame; to disgrace.
Dedecoration Dictionary D - noun Disgrace; dishonor.
Dedecorous Dictionary D - adjective Disgraceful; unbecoming.
Dedentition Dictionary D - noun The shedding of teeth.
Dedicate Dictionary D - particle adjective Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
Dedicated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dedicate.
Dedicating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dedicate.
Dedicatee Dictionary D - noun One to whom a thing is dedicated; - correlative to dedicator.
Dedication Dictionary D - noun The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.
Dedicator Dictionary D - noun One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.
Dedicatorial Dictionary D - adjective Dedicatory.
Dedicatory Dictionary D - adjective Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental.
Dedimus Dictionary D - noun A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.
Dedition Dictionary D - noun The act of yielding; surrender.
Dedolent Dictionary D - adjective Feeling no compunction; apathetic.
Deduced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deduce.
Deducing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deduce.
Deduce Dictionary D - verb transitive To lead forth.
Deducement Dictionary D - noun Inference; deduction; thing deduced.
Deducibility Dictionary D - noun Deducibleness.
Deducible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence.
Deducibleness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being deducible; deducibility.
Deducibly Dictionary D - adverb By deduction.
Deducive Dictionary D - adjective That deduces; inferential.
Deducted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deduct.
Deducting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deduct.
Deduct Dictionary D - verb transitive To lead forth or out.
Deductible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.
Deduction Dictionary D - noun Act or process of deducing or inferring.
Deductive Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
Deductively Dictionary D - adverb By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.
Deductor Dictionary D - noun The pilot whale or blackfish.
Deduit Dictionary D - noun Delight; pleasure.
Deduplication Dictionary D - noun The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
Deed Dictionary D - adjective Dead.
Deedful Dictionary D - adjective Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring.
Deedless Dictionary D - adjective Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.
Deed poll Dictionary D - A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented.
Deedy Dictionary D - adjective Industrious; active.
Deemed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deem.
Deeming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deem.
Deem Dictionary D - verb To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
Deemster Dictionary D - noun A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process.
Deep Dictionary D - superlative Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
Deepened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deepen.
Deepening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deepen.
Deepen Dictionary D - verb transitive To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
Deep-fet Dictionary D - adjective Deeply fetched or drawn.
Deep-laid Dictionary D - adjective Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.
Deeply Dictionary D - adverb At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
Deep-mouthed Dictionary D - adjective Having a loud and sonorous voice.
Deepness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; - opposed to shallowness.
Deep-read Dictionary D - adjective Profoundly book- learned.
Deep-sea Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.
Deep-waisted Dictionary D - adjective Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.
Deer Dictionary D - noun singular & plural Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
Deerberry Dictionary D - noun A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; - called also squaw huckleberry.
Deergrass Dictionary D - noun An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, - the only genus of the order Melastomaceae inhabiting a temperate clime.
Deerhound Dictionary D - noun One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.
Deerlet Dictionary D - noun A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.
Deer-neck Dictionary D - noun A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.
Deerskin Dictionary D - noun The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.
Deerstalker Dictionary D - noun One who practices deerstalking.
Deerstalking Dictionary D - noun The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
Deer's-tongue Dictionary D - noun A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.
Dees Dictionary D - noun plural Dice.
Deesis Dictionary D - noun An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.
Deess Dictionary D - noun A goddess.
Deev Dictionary D - noun See Dev.
Defaced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deface.
Defacing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deface.
Deface Dictionary D - verb transitive To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.
Defacement Dictionary D - noun The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
Defacer Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.
De facto Dictionary D - Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, - distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.
Defail Dictionary D - verb transitive To cause to fail.
Defailance Dictionary D - noun Failure; miscarriage.
Defailure Dictionary D - noun Failure.
Defalcated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defalcate.
Defalcating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defalcate.
Defalcate Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; - used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
Defalcation Dictionary D - noun A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
Defalcator Dictionary D - noun A defaulter or embezzler.
Defalk Dictionary D - verb transitive To lop off; to abate.
Defamation Dictionary D - noun Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
Defamatory Dictionary D - adjective Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
Defamed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defame.
Defaming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defame.
Defame Dictionary D - verb transitive To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
Defamer Dictionary D - noun One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
Defamingly Dictionary D - adverb In a defamatory manner.
Defamous Dictionary D - adjective Defamatory.
Defatigable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being wearied or tired out.
Defatigate Dictionary D - verb transitive To weary or tire out; to fatigue.
Defatigation Dictionary D - noun Weariness; fatigue.
Default Dictionary D - noun A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.
Defaulted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Default.
Defaulting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Default.
Defaulter Dictionary D - noun One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
Defeasance Dictionary D - noun A defeat; an overthrow.
Defeasanced Dictionary D - adjective Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
Defeasible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
Defeated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defeat.
Defeating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defeat.
Defeat Dictionary D - verb transitive To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
Defeature Dictionary D - noun Overthrow; defeat.
Defeatured Dictionary D - past participle Changed in features; deformed.
Defecate Dictionary D - adjective Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Defecated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defecate.
Defecating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defecate.
Defecation Dictionary D - noun The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
Defecator Dictionary D - noun That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.
Defect Dictionary D - noun Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; - opposed to superfluity.
Defectibility Dictionary D - noun Deficiency; imperfection.
Defectible Dictionary D - adjective Liable to defect; imperfect.
Defection Dictionary D - noun Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
Defectionist Dictionary D - noun One who advocates or encourages defection.
Defectious Dictionary D - adjective Having defects; imperfect.
Defective Dictionary D - adjective Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; - applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
Defectuosity Dictionary D - noun Great imperfection.
Defectuous Dictionary D - adjective Full of defects; imperfect.
Defedation Dictionary D - noun The act of making foul; pollution.
Defence Dictionary D - noun & transitive verb See Defense.
Defended Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defend.
Defending Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defend.
Defend Dictionary D - verb transitive To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Defendable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being defended; defensible.
Defendant Dictionary D - adjective Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.
Defendee Dictionary D - noun One who is defended.
Defender Dictionary D - noun One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
Defendress Dictionary D - noun A female defender.
Defensative Dictionary D - noun That which serves to protect or defend.
Defense Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Defence.
Defenseless Dictionary D - adjective Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
Defenser Dictionary D - noun Defender.
Defensibility Dictionary D - noun Capability of being defended.
Defensible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.
Defensibleness Dictionary D - noun Capability of being defended; defensibility.
Defensive Dictionary D - adjective Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.
Defensively Dictionary D - adverb On the defensive.
Defensor Dictionary D - noun A defender.
Defensory Dictionary D - adjective Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.
Deferred Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defer.
Deferring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defer.
Defer Dictionary D - verb transitive To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Deference Dictionary D - noun A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
Deferent Dictionary D - adjective Serving to carry; bearing.
Deferential Dictionary D - adjective Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
Deferentially Dictionary D - adverb With deference.
Deferment Dictionary D - noun The act of delaying; postponement.
Deferrer Dictionary D - noun One who defers or puts off.
Defervescence Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Defervescency.
Defervescency Dictionary D - noun A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.
Defeudalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Defiance Dictionary D - noun The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
Defiant Dictionary D - adjective Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Defiatory Dictionary D - adjective Bidding or manifesting defiance.
Defibrinate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
Defibrination Dictionary D - noun The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
Defibrinize Dictionary D - verb transitive To defibrinate.
Deficience Dictionary D - noun Same as Deficiency.
Deficiencies Dictionary D - pleural of Deficiency.
Deficiency Dictionary D - noun The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
Deficient Dictionary D - adjective Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
Deficit Dictionary D - noun Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.
Defier Dictionary D - noun One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.
Defiguration Dictionary D - noun Disfiguration; mutilation.
Defigure Dictionary D - verb transitive To delineate.
Defiladed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defilade.
Defilading Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defilade.
Defilade Dictionary D - verb transitive To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
Defiled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defile.
Defiling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defile.
Defile Dictionary D - intransitive verb To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
Defilement Dictionary D - noun The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
Defiler Dictionary D - noun One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.
Defiliation Dictionary D - noun Abstraction of a child from its parents.
Definable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.
Defined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Define.
Defining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Define.
Define Dictionary D - verb transitive To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.
Definement Dictionary D - noun The act of defining; definition; description.
Definer Dictionary D - noun One who defines or explains.
Definite Dictionary D - adjective Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval.
Definitely Dictionary D - adverb In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.
Definiteness Dictionary D - noun The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.
Definition Dictionary D - noun The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.
Definitional Dictionary D - adjective Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
Definitive Dictionary D - adjective Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express.
Definitively Dictionary D - adverb In a definitive manner.
Definitiveness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being definitive.
Definitude Dictionary D - noun Definiteness.
Defix Dictionary D - verb transitive To fix; to fasten; to establish.
Deflagrability Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being deflagrable.
Deflagrable Dictionary D - adjective Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.
Deflagrated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deflagrate.
Deflagrating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deflagrate.
Deflagrate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.
Deflagration Dictionary D - noun A burning up; conflagration.
Deflagrator Dictionary D - noun A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.
Deflate Dictionary D - verb transitive To reduce from an inflated condition.
Deflected Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deflect.
Deflecting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deflect.
Deflect Dictionary D - verb transitive To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
Deflectable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deflected.
Deflection Dictionary D - noun The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.
Deflectionization Dictionary D - noun The act of freeing from inflections.
Deflectionize Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from inflections.
Deflective Dictionary D - adjective Causing deflection.
Deflector Dictionary D - noun That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
Deflexed Dictionary D - adjective Bent abruptly downward.
Deflexion Dictionary D - noun See Deflection.
Deflexure Dictionary D - noun A bending or turning aside; deflection.
Deflorate Dictionary D - adjective Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.
Defloration Dictionary D - noun The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
Defloured Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deflour.
Deflouring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deflour.
Deflour Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of flowers.
Deflourer Dictionary D - noun One who deflours; a ravisher.
Deflow Dictionary D - intransitive verb To flow down.
Deflower Dictionary D - verb transitive Same as Deflour.
Deflowerer Dictionary D - noun See Deflourer.
Defluous Dictionary D - adjective Flowing down; falling off.
Deflux Dictionary D - noun Downward flow.
Defluxion Dictionary D - noun A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; - sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.
Defly Dictionary D - adverb Deftly.
Defoedation Dictionary D - noun Defedation.
Defoliate Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Defoliated.
Defoliated Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.
Defoliation Dictionary D - noun The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
Deforced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deforce.
Deforcing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deforce.
Deforce Dictionary D - verb To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.
Deforcement Dictionary D - noun A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
Deforceor Dictionary D - noun Same as Deforciant.
Deforciant Dictionary D - noun One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
Deforciation Dictionary D - noun Same as Deforcement, n.
Deforest Dictionary D - verb transitive To clear of forests; to disforest.
Deformed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deform.
Deforming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deform.
Deform Dictionary D - verb transitive To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Deformation Dictionary D - noun The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.
Deformer Dictionary D - noun One who deforms.
Deformities Dictionary D - pleural of Deformity.
Deformity Dictionary D - adjective The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
Deforser Dictionary D - noun A deforciant.
Defoul Dictionary D - verb transitive To tread down.
Defrauded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defraud.
Defrauding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defraud.
Defraud Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; - with of before the thing taken or withheld.
Defraudation Dictionary D - noun The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
Defrauder Dictionary D - noun One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
Defraudment Dictionary D - noun Privation by fraud; defrauding.
Defrayed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defray.
Defraying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defray.
Defray Dictionary D - verb transitive To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
Defrayal Dictionary D - noun The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.
Defrayer Dictionary D - noun One who pays off expenses.
Defrayment Dictionary D - noun Payment of charges.
Deft Dictionary D - adjective Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.
Deftly Dictionary D - adverb Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.
Deftness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being deft.
Defunct Dictionary D - adjective Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
Defunction Dictionary D - noun Death.
Defunctive Dictionary D - adjective Funereal.
Defuse Dictionary D - verb transitive To disorder; to make shapeless.
Defied Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Defy.
Defying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Defy.
Defy Dictionary D - verb transitive To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Degarnished Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Degarnish.
Degarnishing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Degarnish.
Degarnish Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.
Degarnishment Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
Degender Dictionary D - intransitive verb Alt. of Degener.
Degener Dictionary D - intransitive verb To degenerate.
Degeneracy Dictionary D - adjective The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
Degenerate Dictionary D - adjective Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
Degenerated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Degenerate.
Degenerating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Degenerate.
Degenerately Dictionary D - adverb In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
Degenerateness Dictionary D - noun Degeneracy.
Degeneration Dictionary D - noun The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Degenerationist Dictionary D - noun A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
Degenerative Dictionary D - adjective Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.
Degenerous Dictionary D - adjective Degenerate; base.
Degenerously Dictionary D - adverb Basely.
Deglazing Dictionary D - noun The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.
Degloried Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of glory; dishonored.
Deglutinated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deglutinate.
Deglutinating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deglutinate.
Deglutinate Dictionary D - verb transitive To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
Deglutination Dictionary D - noun The act of ungluing.
Deglutition Dictionary D - noun The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
Deglutitious Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to deglutition.
Deglutitory Dictionary D - adjective Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.
Degradation Dictionary D - noun The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
Degraded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Degrade.
Degrading Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Degrade.
Degrade Dictionary D - verb transitive To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
Degradement Dictionary D - noun Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Degradingly Dictionary D - adverb In a degrading manner.
Degravation Dictionary D - adjective The act of making heavy.
Degree Dictionary D - noun A step, stair, or staircase.
Degu Dictionary D - noun A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidae.
Degust Dictionary D - verb transitive To taste.
Degustation Dictionary D - noun Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.
Dehisce Dictionary D - intransitive verb To gape; to open by dehiscence.
Dehiscence Dictionary D - noun The act of gaping.
Dehiscent Dictionary D - adjective Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
Dehonestate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disparage.
Dehonestation Dictionary D - noun A dishonoring; disgracing.
Dehorned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dehorn.
Dehorning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dehorn.
Dehorn Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.
Dehors Dictionary D - preposition Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.
Dehorted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dehort.
Dehorting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dehort.
Dehort Dictionary D - verb transitive To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.
Dehortation Dictionary D - noun Dissuasion; advice against something.
Dehortative Dictionary D - adjective Dissuasive.
Dehortatory Dictionary D - adjective Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.
Dehorter Dictionary D - noun A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.
Dehumanize Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
Dehusk Dictionary D - verb transitive To remove the husk from.
Dehydrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.
Dehydration Dictionary D - noun The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
Dehydrogenate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.
Dehydrogenation Dictionary D - noun The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.
Deicide Dictionary D - noun The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.
Deictic Dictionary D - adjective Direct; proving directly; - applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
Deictically Dictionary D - adverb In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.
Deific Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Deifical.
Deifical Dictionary D - adjective Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.
Deification Dictionary D - noun The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
Deified Dictionary D - adjective Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.
Deifier Dictionary D - noun One who deifies.
Deiform Dictionary D - adjective Godlike, or of a godlike form.
Deiformity Dictionary D - noun Likeness to deity.
Deifying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deify.
Deify Dictionary D - verb transitive To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.
Deigned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deign.
Deigning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deign.
Deign Dictionary D - verb transitive To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; - opposed to disdain.
Deignous Dictionary D - adjective Haughty; disdainful.
Deil Dictionary D - noun Devil; - spelt also deel.
Deinoceras Dictionary D - noun See Dinoceras.
Deinornis Dictionary D - noun See Dinornis.
Deinosaur Dictionary D - noun See Dinosaur.
Deinotherium Dictionary D - noun See Dinotherium.
Deintegrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disintegrate.
Deinteous Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Deintevous.
Deintevous Dictionary D - adjective Rare; excellent; costly.
Deiparous Dictionary D - adjective Bearing or bringing forth a god; - said of the Virgin Mary.
Deipnosophist Dictionary D - noun One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.
Deis Dictionary D - noun See Dais.
Deism Dictionary D - noun The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.
Deist Dictionary D - noun One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.
Deistic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Deistical.
Deistical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.
Deistically Dictionary D - adverb After the manner of deists.
Deisticalness Dictionary D - noun State of being deistical.
Deitate Dictionary D - adjective Deified.
Deities Dictionary D - pleural of Deity.
Deity Dictionary D - noun The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
Dejected Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deject.
Dejecting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deject.
Deject Dictionary D - verb transitive To cast down.
Dejecta Dictionary D - noun plural Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
Dejecter Dictionary D - noun One who casts down, or dejects.
Dejection Dictionary D - noun A casting down; depression.
Dejectly Dictionary D - adverb Dejectedly.
Dejectory Dictionary D - adjective Having power, or tending, to cast down.
Dejecture Dictionary D - noun That which is voided; excrements.
Dejerate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To swear solemnly; to take an oath.
Dejeration Dictionary D - noun The act of swearing solemnly.
Dejeune Dictionary D - noun A dejeuner.
Dejeuner Dictionary D - noun A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.
De jure Dictionary D - By right; of right; by law; - often opposed to de facto.
Deka- Dictionary D - A prefix signifying ten. See Deca-.
Dekagram Dictionary D - noun Same as Decagram.
Dekaliter Dictionary D - noun Same as Decaliter.
Dekameter Dictionary D - noun Same as Decameter.
Dekastere Dictionary D - noun Same as Decastere.
Dekle Dictionary D - noun See Deckle.
Del Dictionary D - noun Share; portion; part.
Delaceration Dictionary D - noun A tearing in pieces.
Delacrymation Dictionary D - noun An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.
Delactation Dictionary D - noun The act of weaning.
Delaine Dictionary D - noun A kind of fabric for women's dresses.
Delamination Dictionary D - noun Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Delapsation Dictionary D - noun See Delapsion.
Delapsed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delapse.
Delapsing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delapse.
Delapse Dictionary D - intransitive verb To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Delapsion Dictionary D - noun A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.
Delassation Dictionary D - noun Fatigue.
Delated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delate.
Delating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delate.
Delate Dictionary D - verb To carry; to convey.
Delation Dictionary D - noun Conveyance.
Delator Dictionary D - noun An accuser; an informer.
Delaware Dictionary D - noun An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
Delawares Dictionary D - noun plural A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
Delays Dictionary D - pleural of Delay.
Delay Dictionary D - verb A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
Delayed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delay.
Delaying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delay.
Delayer Dictionary D - noun One who delays; one who lingers.
Delayingly Dictionary D - adverb By delays.
Delayment Dictionary D - noun Hindrance.
Del credere Dictionary D - An agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.
Dele Dictionary D - [[imperative singular Erase; remove; - a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /.
Deled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dele.
Deleing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dele.
Deleble Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being blotted out or erased.
Delectable Dictionary D - adjective Highly pleasing; delightful.
Delectate Dictionary D - verb transitive To delight; to charm.
Delectation Dictionary D - noun Great pleasure; delight.
Delectus Dictionary D - noun A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.
Delegacy Dictionary D - adjective The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.
Delegate Dictionary D - noun Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Delegated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delegate.
Delegating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delegate.
Delegation Dictionary D - noun The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
Delegatory Dictionary D - adjective Holding a delegated position.
Delenda Dictionary D - noun plural Things to be erased or blotted out.
Delenifical Dictionary D - adjective Assuaging pain.
Deleted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delete.
Deleting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delete.
Delete Dictionary D - verb transitive To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Deleterious Dictionary D - adjective Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.
Deletery Dictionary D - adjective Destructive; poisonous.
Deletion Dictionary D - noun Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
Deletitious Dictionary D - adjective Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; - said of paper.
Deletive Dictionary D - adjective Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
Deletory Dictionary D - noun That which blots out.
Delf Dictionary D - noun A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.
Delft Dictionary D - noun Same as Delftware.
Delftware Dictionary D - noun Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:.
Delibate Dictionary D - verb transitive To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.
Delibation Dictionary D - noun Act of tasting; a slight trial.
Deliber Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To deliberate.
Deliberate Dictionary D - adjective Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; - applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.
Deliberated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deliberate.
Deliberating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deliberate.
Deliberately Dictionary D - adverb With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
Deliberateness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
Deliberation Dictionary D - noun The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.
Deliberative Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
Deliberatively Dictionary D - adverb In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.
Deliberator Dictionary D - noun One who deliberates.
Delibrated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delibrate.
Delibrating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delibrate.
Delibrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip off the bark; to peel.
Delibration Dictionary D - noun The act of stripping off the bark.
Delicacies Dictionary D - pleural of Delicacy.
Delicacy Dictionary D - adjective The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
Delicate Dictionary D - adjective Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
Delicately Dictionary D - adverb In a delicate manner.
Delicateness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being delicate.
Delices Dictionary D - noun plural Delicacies; delights.
Deliciate Dictionary D - verb transitive To delight one's self; to indulge in feasting; to revel.
Delicious Dictionary D - adjective Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
Deliciously Dictionary D - adverb Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.
Deliciousness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast.
Delict Dictionary D - noun An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
Deligate Dictionary D - verb transitive To bind up; to bandage.
Deligation Dictionary D - noun A binding up; a bandaging.
Delight Dictionary D - verb transitive A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
Delighted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delight.
Delighting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delight.
Delightable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of delighting; delightful.
Delightedly Dictionary D - adverb With delight; gladly.
Delighter Dictionary D - noun One who gives or takes delight.
Delightful Dictionary D - adjective Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction.
Delightless Dictionary D - adjective Void of delight.
Delightous Dictionary D - adjective Delightful.
Delightsome Dictionary D - adjective Very pleasing; delightful.
Delilah Dictionary D - noun The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.
Delimit Dictionary D - verb transitive To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.
Delimitation Dictionary D - noun The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.
Deline Dictionary D - verb transitive To delineate.
Delineable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated.
Delineament Dictionary D -Delineation; sketch.
Delineate Dictionary D - adjective Delineated; portrayed.
Delineated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delineate.
Delineating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delineate.
Delineation Dictionary D - noun The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.
Delineator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.
Delineatory Dictionary D - adjective That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.
Delineature Dictionary D - noun Delineation.
Delinition Dictionary D - noun A smearing.
Delinquencies Dictionary D - pleural of Delinquency.
Delinquency Dictionary D - noun Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.
Delinquent Dictionary D - noun Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
Delinquently Dictionary D - adverb So as to fail in duty.
Deliquate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
Deliquation Dictionary D - noun A melting.
Deliquesced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deliquesce.
Deliquescing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deliquesce.
Deliquesce Dictionary D - intransitive verb To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
Deliquescence Dictionary D - noun The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.
Deliquescent Dictionary D - adjective Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
Deliquiate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
Deliquiation Dictionary D - noun The act of deliquiating.
Deliquium Dictionary D - noun A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.
Deliracy Dictionary D - noun Delirium.
Delirament Dictionary D - noun A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy.
Delirancy Dictionary D - noun Delirium.
Delirant Dictionary D - adjective Delirious.
Delirate Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To madden; to rave.
Deliration Dictionary D - noun Aberration of mind; delirium.
Deliriant Dictionary D - noun A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).
Delirifacient Dictionary D - adjective Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.
Delirious Dictionary D - adjective Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
Delirium Dictionary D - noun A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, - usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.
Delit Dictionary D - noun Delight.
Delitable Dictionary D - adjective Delightful; delectable.
Delitescence Dictionary D - noun Concealment; seclusion; retirement.
Delitescency Dictionary D - noun Concealment; seclusion.
Delitescent Dictionary D - adjective Lying hid; concealed.
Delitigate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To chide; to rail heartily.
Delitigation Dictionary D - noun Chiding; brawl.
Delivered Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deliver.
Delivering Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deliver.
Deliver Dictionary D - verb transitive To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; - often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
Deliverable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.
Deliverance Dictionary D - noun The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
Deliverer Dictionary D - noun One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.
Deliveress Dictionary D - noun A female deliverer.
Deliverly Dictionary D - adverb Actively; quickly; nimbly.
Deliverness Dictionary D - noun Nimbleness; agility.
Deliveries Dictionary D - pleural of Delivery.
Delivery Dictionary D - noun The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
Dell Dictionary D - noun A small, retired valley; a ravine.
Della Crusca Dictionary D - A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language.
Dellacruscan Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.
Deloo Dictionary D - noun The duykerbok.
Deloul Dictionary D - noun A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; - called also herire, and maharik.
Delph Dictionary D - noun Delftware.
Delphian Dictionary D - adjective Delphic.
Delphic Dictionary D - adjective Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
Delphin Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Delphine.
Delphine Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).
Delphinic Dictionary D - noun Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.
Delphinine Dictionary D - noun A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
Delphinoid Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
Delphinoidea Dictionary D - noun plural The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.
Delphinus Dictionary D - noun A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1.
Deltas Dictionary D - pleural of Delta.
Delta Dictionary D - noun A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.
Deltafication Dictionary D - noun The formation of a delta or of deltas.
Deltaic Dictionary D - adjective Relating to, or like, a delta.
Delthyris Dictionary D - noun A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer.
Deltic Dictionary D - adjective Deltaic.
Deltidium Dictionary D - noun The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.
Deltohedron Dictionary D - noun A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.
Deltoid Dictionary D - adjective Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.
Deludable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.
Deluded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delude.
Deluding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delude.
Delude Dictionary D - verb transitive To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
Deluder Dictionary D - noun One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
Deluge Dictionary D - noun A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
Deluged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deluge.
Deluging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deluge.
Delundung Dictionary D - noun An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.
Delusion Dictionary D - noun The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
Delusional Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
Delusive Dictionary D - adjective Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.
Delusory Dictionary D - adjective Delusive; fallacious.
Delved Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Delve.
Delving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Delve.
Delve Dictionary D - verb transitive To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delver Dictionary D - noun One who digs, as with a spade.
Demagnetize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.
Demagog Dictionary D - noun Demagogue.
Demagogic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Demagogical.
Demagogical Dictionary D - adjective Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.
Demagogism Dictionary D - noun The practices of a demagogue.
Demagogue Dictionary D - noun A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Demagogy Dictionary D - noun Demagogism.
Demain Dictionary D - noun Rule; management.
Demanded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demand.
Demanding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demand.
Demand Dictionary D - verb transitive To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
Demandable Dictionary D - adjective That may be demanded or claimed.
Demandant Dictionary D - noun One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
Demander Dictionary D - noun One who demands.
Demandress Dictionary D - noun A woman who demands.
Demantoid Dictionary D - noun A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
Demarcate Dictionary D - verb transitive To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.
Demarcation Dictionary D - noun The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
Demarch Dictionary D - noun March; walk; gait.
Demarkation Dictionary D - noun Same as Demarcation.
Dematerialize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
Deme Dictionary D - noun A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
Demeaned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demean.
Demeaning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demean.
Demean Dictionary D - verb transitive To manage; to conduct; to treat.
Demeanance Dictionary D - noun Demeanor.
Demeanor Dictionary D - verb transitive Management; treatment; conduct.
Demeanure Dictionary D - noun Behavior.
Demency Dictionary D - noun Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.
Dement Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of reason; to make mad.
Dementate Dictionary D - verb transitive Deprived of reason.
Dementation Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving of reason; madness.
Demented Dictionary D - adjective Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
Dementia Dictionary D - noun Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
Demephitized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demephitize.
Demephitizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demephitize.
Demephitize Dictionary D - verb transitive To purify from mephitic or foul air.
Demerge Dictionary D - verb transitive To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Demerit Dictionary D - noun That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
Demerse Dictionary D - verb transitive To immerse.
Demersed Dictionary D - adjective Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
Demersion Dictionary D - noun The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
Demesmerize Dictionary D - verb transitive To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.
Demesne Dictionary D - noun A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
Demesnial Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.
Demi- Dictionary D - A prefix, signifying half.
Demi Dictionary D - noun See Demy, n.
Demibastion Dictionary D - noun A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
Demibrigade Dictionary D - noun A half brigade.
Demicadence Dictionary D - noun An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
Demicannon Dictionary D - noun A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
Demicircle Dictionary D - noun An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.
Demiculverin Dictionary D - noun A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
Demideify Dictionary D - verb transitive To deify in part.
Demidevil Dictionary D - noun A half devil.
Demigod Dictionary D - noun A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Demigoddess Dictionary D - noun A female demigod.
Demigorge Dictionary D - noun Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
Demigrate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To emigrate.
Demigration Dictionary D - noun Emigration.
Demigroat Dictionary D - noun A half groat.
Demi-island Dictionary D - noun Peninsula.
Demijohn Dictionary D - noun A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.
Demilance Dictionary D - noun A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
Demilancer Dictionary D - noun A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.
Demilune Dictionary D - noun A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.
Demiman Dictionary D - noun A half man.
Demimonde Dictionary D - noun Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.
Deminatured Dictionary D - adjective Having half the nature of another.
Demiquaver Dictionary D - noun A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver.
Demirelief Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Demirelievo.
Demirelievo Dictionary D - noun Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.
Demirep Dictionary D - noun A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Demi-rilievo Dictionary D - noun Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
Demisability Dictionary D - noun The state of being demisable.
Demisable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.
Demise Dictionary D - noun Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
Demised Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demise.
Demising Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demise.
Demisemiquaver Dictionary D - noun A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
Demiss Dictionary D - adjective Cast down; humble; submissive.
Demission Dictionary D - noun The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.
Demissionary Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.
Demissive Dictionary D - adjective Downcast; submissive; humble.
Demissly Dictionary D - adverb In a humble manner.
Demisuit Dictionary D - noun A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
Demitted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demit.
Demitting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demit.
Demit Dictionary D - verb transitive To let fall; to depress.
Demitint Dictionary D - noun That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.
Demitone Dictionary D - noun Semitone.
Demiurge Dictionary D - noun The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
Demiurgic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.
Demivill Dictionary D - noun A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges.
Demivolt Dictionary D - noun A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.
Demiwolf Dictionary D - noun A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
Demobilization Dictionary D - noun The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.
Demobilize Dictionary D - verb transitive To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.
Democracies Dictionary D - pleural of Democracy.
Democracy Dictionary D - noun Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
Democrat Dictionary D - noun One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.
Democratic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
Democratical Dictionary D - adjective Democratic.
Democratically Dictionary D - adverb In a democratic manner.
Democratism Dictionary D - noun The principles or spirit of a democracy.
Democratist Dictionary D - noun A democrat.
Democratize Dictionary D - verb transitive To render democratic.
Democraty Dictionary D - noun Democracy.
Demogorgon Dictionary D - noun A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.
Demography Dictionary D - noun The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
Demoiselle Dictionary D - noun A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.
Demolished Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demolish.
Demolishing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demolish.
Demolish Dictionary D - verb transitive To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Demolisher Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
Demolishment Dictionary D - noun Demolition.
Demolition Dictionary D - noun The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; - opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
Demolitionist Dictionary D - noun A demolisher.
Demon Dictionary D - noun A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
Demoness Dictionary D - noun A female demon.
Demonetization Dictionary D - noun The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.
Demonetize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
Demoniac Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Demoniacal.
Demoniacal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.
Demoniacally Dictionary D - adverb In a demoniacal manner.
Demoniacism Dictionary D - noun The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs.
Demonial Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a demon.
Demonian Dictionary D - adjective Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.
Demonianism Dictionary D - noun The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons.
Demoniasm Dictionary D - noun See Demonianism.
Demonic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.
Demonism Dictionary D - noun The belief in demons or false gods.
Demonist Dictionary D - noun A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.
Demonized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demonize.
Demonizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demonize.
Demonize Dictionary D - verb transitive To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
Demonocracy Dictionary D - noun The power or government of demons.
Demonographer Dictionary D - noun A demonologist.
Demonolatry Dictionary D - noun The worship of demons.
Demonologer Dictionary D - noun One versed in demonology.
Demonologic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Demonological.
Demonological Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to demonology.
Demonologist Dictionary D - noun One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.
Demonology Dictionary D - noun A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.
Demonomagy Dictionary D - noun Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.
Demonomania Dictionary D - noun A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
Demonomist Dictionary D - noun One in subjection to a demon, or to demons.
Demonomy Dictionary D - noun The dominion of demons.
Demonry Dictionary D - noun Demoniacal influence or possession.
Demonship Dictionary D - noun The state of a demon.
Demonstrability Dictionary D - noun The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.
Demonstrable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.
Demonstrableness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.
Demonstrably Dictionary D - adverb In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.
Demonstrance Dictionary D - noun Demonstration; proof.
Demonstrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
Demonstrater Dictionary D - noun See Demonstrator.
Demonstration Dictionary D - noun The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.
Demonstrative Dictionary D - adjective Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
Demonstratively Dictionary D - adverb In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly; forcibly.
Demonstrativeness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being demonstrative.
Demonstrator Dictionary D - noun One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.
Demonstratory Dictionary D - adjective Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative.
Demorage Dictionary D - noun Demurrage.
Demoralization Dictionary D - noun The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
Demoralized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demoralize.
Demoralizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demoralize.
Demoralize Dictionary D - verb transitive To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
Demosthenic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.
Demotic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
Demount Dictionary D - intransitive verb To dismount.
Dempne Dictionary D - verb transitive To damn; to condemn.
Dempster Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Demster.
Demster Dictionary D - noun A deemster.
Demulce Dictionary D - verb transitive To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.
Demulcent Dictionary D - adjective Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
Demulsion Dictionary D - noun The act of soothing; that which soothes.
Demurred Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Demur.
Demurring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Demur.
Demur Dictionary D - intransitive verb To linger; to stay; to tarry.
Demure Dictionary D - adjective Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.
Demurely Dictionary D - adverb In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; - now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.
Demureness Dictionary D - noun The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
Demurity Dictionary D - noun Demureness; also, one who is demure.
Demurrable Dictionary D - adjective That may be demurred to.
Demurrage Dictionary D - noun The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.
Demurral Dictionary D - noun Demur; delay in acting or deciding.
Demurrer Dictionary D - noun One who demurs.
Demies Dictionary D - pleural of Demy.
Demy Dictionary D - noun A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
Den Dictionary D - noun A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
Denarcotize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium.
Denarii Dictionary D - pleural of Denarius.
Denarius Dictionary D - noun A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; - so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
Denary Dictionary D - adjective Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.
Denationalization Dictionary D - noun The or process of denationalizing.
Denationalized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Denationalize.
Denationalizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Denationalize.
Denationalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
Denaturalized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Denaturalize.
Denaturalizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Denaturalize.
Denaturalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
Denay Dictionary D - verb transitive To deny.
Dendrachate Dictionary D - noun Arborescent or dendritic agate.
Dendriform Dictionary D - adjective Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
Dendrite Dictionary D - noun A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.
Dendritic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dendritical.
Dendritical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.
Dendroc/la Dictionary D - noun plural A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.
Dendroid Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dendroidal.
Dendroidal Dictionary D - adjective Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.
Dendrolite Dictionary D - noun A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.
Dendrologist Dictionary D - noun One versed in the natural history of trees.
Dendrologous Dictionary D - adjective Relating to dendrology.
Dendrology Dictionary D - noun A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.
Dendrometer Dictionary D - noun An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.
Denegate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deny.
Denegation Dictionary D - noun Denial.
Dengue Dictionary D - noun A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; - called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Deniable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
Denial Dictionary D - noun The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; - the contrary of affirmation.
Deniance Dictionary D - noun Denial.
Denier Dictionary D - noun One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
Denigrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
Denigration Dictionary D - noun The act of making black.
Denigrator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, blackens.
Denim Dictionary D - noun A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.
Denitration Dictionary D - noun A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.
Denitrification Dictionary D - noun The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.
Denitrify Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.
Denization Dictionary D - noun The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.
Denize Dictionary D - verb transitive To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.
Denizen Dictionary D - noun A dweller; an inhabitant.
Denizenation Dictionary D - noun Denization; denizening.
Denizenize Dictionary D - verb transitive To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen.
Denizenship Dictionary D - noun State of being a denizen.
Denmark satin Dictionary D - See under Satin.
Dennet Dictionary D - noun A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.
Denominable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being denominated or named.
Denominated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Denominate.
Denominating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Denominate.
Denominate Dictionary D - verb transitive To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.
Denomination Dictionary D - noun The act of naming or designating.
Denominational Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.
Denominationalism Dictionary D - noun A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.
Denominationalist Dictionary D - noun One imbued with a denominational spirit.
Denominationally Dictionary D - adverb In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
Denominative Dictionary D - adjective Conferring a denomination or name.
Denominatively Dictionary D - adverb By denomination.
Denominator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.
Denotable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being denoted or marked.
Denotate Dictionary D - verb transitive To mark off; to denote.
Denotation Dictionary D - noun The marking off or separation of anything.
Denotative Dictionary D - adjective Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
Denoted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Denote.
Denoting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Denote.
Denote Dictionary D - verb transitive To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.
Denotement Dictionary D - noun Sign; indication.
Denotive Dictionary D - adjective Serving to denote.
Denouement Dictionary D - noun The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
Denounced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Denounce.
Denouncing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Denounce.
Denounce Dictionary D - verb transitive To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Denouncement Dictionary D - noun Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.
Denouncer Dictionary D - noun One who denounces, or declares, as a menace.
Dense Dictionary D - adjective Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.
Densely Dictionary D - adverb In a dense, compact manner.
Denseless Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dense; density.
Densimeter Dictionary D - noun An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.
Density Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; - opposed to rarity.
Dent Dictionary D - noun A stroke; a blow.
Dented Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dent.
Denting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dent.
Dental Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.
Dentalism Dictionary D - noun The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.
Dentalium Dictionary D - noun A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.
Dentary Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth.
Dentate Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dentated.
Dentated Dictionary D - adjective Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.
Dentate-ciliate Dictionary D - adjective Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.
Dentately Dictionary D - adverb In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.
Dentate-sinuate Dictionary D - adjective Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.
Dentation Dictionary D - noun Formation of teeth; toothed form.
Dentel Dictionary D - noun Same as Dentil.
Dentelle Dictionary D - noun An ornamental tooling like lace.
Dentelli Dictionary D - noun plural Modillions.
Dentex Dictionary D - noun An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidae.
Denticete Dictionary D - noun plural The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.
Denticle Dictionary D - noun A small tooth or projecting point.
Denticulate Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Denticulated.
Denticulated Dictionary D - adjective Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.
Denticulation Dictionary D - noun The state of being set with small notches or teeth.
Dentiferous Dictionary D - adjective Bearing teeth; dentigerous.
Dentiform Dictionary D - adjective Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.
Dentifrice Dictionary D - noun A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.
Dentigerous Dictionary D - adjective Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
Dentil Dictionary D - noun A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; - used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
Dentilabial Dictionary D - adjective Formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed.
Dentilated Dictionary D - adjective Toothed.
Dentilation Dictionary D - noun Dentition.
Dentilave Dictionary D - noun A wash for cleaning the teeth.
Dentile Dictionary D - noun A small tooth, like that of a saw.
Dentilingual Dictionary D - adjective Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed.
Dentiloquist Dictionary D - noun One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed.
Dentiloquy Dictionary D - noun The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.
Dential Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to dentine.
Dentine Dictionary D - noun The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.
Dentiphone Dictionary D - noun An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
Dentirostres Dictionary D - pleural of Dentiroster.
Dentiroster Dictionary D - noun A dentirostral bird.
Dentirostral Dictionary D - adjective Having a toothed bill; - applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.
Dentirostrate Dictionary D - adjective Dentirostral.
Dentiscalp Dictionary D - noun An instrument for scraping the teeth.
Dentist Dictionary D - noun One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
Dentistic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dentistical.
Dentistical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists.
Dentistry Dictionary D - noun The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.
Dentition Dictionary D - noun The development and cutting of teeth; teething.
Dentized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dentize.
Dentizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dentize.
Dentize Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To breed or cut new teeth.
Dentoid Dictionary D - adjective Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.
Dentolingual Dictionary D - adjective Dentilingual.
Denture Dictionary D - noun An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.
Denudate Dictionary D - verb transitive To denude.
Denudation Dictionary D - noun The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
Denude Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
Denunciate Dictionary D - verb transitive To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.
Denunciation Dictionary D - noun Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
Denunciative Dictionary D - adjective Same as Denunciatory.
Denunciator Dictionary D - noun One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.
Denunciatory Dictionary D - adjective Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.
Denutrition Dictionary D - noun The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
Denied Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deny.
Denying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deny.
Deny Dictionary D - verb transitive To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; - opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
Denyingly Dictionary D - adverb In the manner of one denies a request.
Deobstruct Dictionary D - verb transitive To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.
Deobstruent Dictionary D - adjective Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient.
Deodand Dictionary D - noun A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.
Deodar Dictionary D - noun A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.
Deodate Dictionary D - noun A gift or offering to God.
Deodorant Dictionary D - noun A deodorizer.
Deodorization Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.
Deodorize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.
Deodorizer Dictionary D - noun He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.
Deonerate Dictionary D - verb transitive To unload; to disburden.
Deontological Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to deontology.
Deontologist Dictionary D - noun One versed in deontology.
Deontology Dictionary D - noun The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation.
Deoperculate Dictionary D - adjective Having the lid removed; - said of the capsules of mosses.
Deoppilate Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through.
Deoppilation Dictionary D - noun Removal of whatever stops up the passages.
Deoppilative Dictionary D - adjective & noun Deobstruent; aperient.
Deordination Dictionary D - noun Disorder; dissoluteness.
Deosculate Dictionary D - verb transitive To kiss warmly.
Deoxidate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deoxidize.
Deoxidation Dictionary D - noun The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.
Deoxidization Dictionary D - noun Deoxidation.
Deoxidize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.
Deoxidizer Dictionary D - noun That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.
Deoxygenate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deoxidize.
Deoxygenation Dictionary D - noun The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.
Deoxygenize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deoxidize.
Depaint Dictionary D - past participle Painted.
Depainted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depaint.
Depainting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depaint.
Depainter Dictionary D - noun One who depaints.
Depardieux Dictionary D - interjection In God's name; certainly.
Departed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depart.
Departing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depart.
Depart Dictionary D - intransitive verb To part; to divide; to separate.
Departable Dictionary D - adjective Divisible.
Departer Dictionary D - noun One who refines metals by separation.
Department Dictionary D - intransitive verb Act of departing; departure.
Departmental Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a department or division.
Departure Dictionary D - noun Division; separation; putting away.
Depascent Dictionary D - adjective Feeding.
Depasture Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.
Depatriate Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
Depauperated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depauperate.
Depauperating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depauperate.
Depauperate Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To make poor; to impoverish.
Depauperize Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.
Depeach Dictionary D - verb transitive To discharge.
Depectible Dictionary D - adjective Tough; thick; capable of extension.
Depeculation Dictionary D - noun A robbing or embezzlement.
Depeinct Dictionary D - verb transitive To paint.
Depended Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depend.
Depending Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depend.
Depend Dictionary D - intransitive verb To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
Dependable Dictionary D - adjective Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.
Dependant Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dependancy.
Dependance Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dependancy.
Dependancy Dictionary D - noun See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.
Dependence Dictionary D - noun The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
Dependencies Dictionary D - pleural of Dependency.
Dependency Dictionary D - noun State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.
Dependent Dictionary D - adjective Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
Dependently Dictionary D - adverb In a dependent manner.
Depender Dictionary D - noun One who depends; a dependent.
Dependingly Dictionary D - adverb As having dependence.
Depeople Dictionary D - verb transitive To depopulate.
Deperdit Dictionary D - noun That which is lost or destroyed.
Deperditely Dictionary D - adverb Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.
Deperdition Dictionary D - noun Loss; destruction.
Depertible Dictionary D - adjective Divisible.
Dephlegm Dictionary D - verb transitive To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
Dephlegmated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dephlegmate.
Dephlegmating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dephlegmate.
Dephlegmate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; - used of spirits and acids.
Dephlegmation Dictionary D - noun The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; - called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.
Dephlegmator Dictionary D - noun An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
Dephlegmatory Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
Dephlegmedness Dictionary D - noun A state of being freed from water.
Dephlogisticated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dephlogisticcate.
Dephlogisticating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dephlogisticcate.
Dephlogisticcate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.
Dephosphorization Dictionary D - noun The act of freeing from phosphorous.
Depict Dictionary D - past participle Depicted.
Depicted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depict.
Depicting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depict.
Depiction Dictionary D - noun A painting or depicting; a representation.
Depictured Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depicture.
Depicturing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depicture.
Depicture Dictionary D - verb transitive To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
Depilated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depilate.
Depilating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depilate.
Depilate Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip of hair; to husk.
Depilation Dictionary D - noun Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.
Depilatory Dictionary D - adjective Having the quality or power of removing hair.
Depilous Dictionary D - adjective Hairless.
Deplanate Dictionary D - verb transitive Flattened; made level or even.
Deplant Dictionary D - verb transitive To take up (plants); to transplant.
Deplantation Dictionary D - noun Act of taking up plants from beds.
Depleted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deplete.
Depleting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deplete.
Deplete Dictionary D - adjective To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
Depletion Dictionary D - noun The act of depleting or emptying.
Depletive Dictionary D - adjective Able or fitted to deplete.
Depletory Dictionary D - adjective Serving to deplete.
Deplication Dictionary D - noun An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting.
Deploitation Dictionary D - noun Same as Exploitation.
Deplorability Dictionary D - noun Deplorableness.
Deplorable Dictionary D - adjective Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
Deplorableness Dictionary D - noun State of being deplorable.
Deplorably Dictionary D - adverb In a deplorable manner.
Deplorate Dictionary D - adjective Deplorable.
Deploration Dictionary D - noun The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
Deplored Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deplore.
Deploring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deplore.
Deplore Dictionary D - verb transitive To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
Deploredly Dictionary D - adverb Lamentably.
Deploredness Dictionary D - noun The state of being deplored or deplorable.
Deplorement Dictionary D - noun Deploration.
Deplorre Dictionary D - noun One who deplores.
Deploringly Dictionary D - adverb In a deploring manner.
Deployed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deploy.
Deploying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deploy.
Deploy Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; - the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
Deployment Dictionary D - noun The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
Deplumate Dictionary D - adjective Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
Deplumation Dictionary D - noun The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Deplumed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deplume.
Depluming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deplume.
Deplume Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
Depolarization Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
Depolarized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depolarize.
Depolarizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depolarize.
Depolarize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
Depolarizer Dictionary D - noun A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
Depolish Dictionary D - verb transitive To remove the polish or glaze from.
Depolishing Dictionary D - noun The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.
Deponed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depone.
Deponing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depone.
Depone Dictionary D - verb transitive To lay, as a stake; to wager.
Deponent Dictionary D - verb transitive One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.
Depopulacy Dictionary D - noun Depopulation; destruction of population.
Depopulated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depopulate.
Depopulating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depopulate.
Depopulate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
Depopulation Dictionary D - noun The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
Depopulator Dictionary D - noun One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
Deported Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deport.
Deporting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deport.
Deport Dictionary D - verb transitive To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
Deportation Dictionary D - noun The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
Deportment Dictionary D - noun Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
Deporture Dictionary D - noun Deportment.
Deposable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being deposed or deprived of office.
Deposal Dictionary D - noun The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.
Deposed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depose.
Deposing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depose.
Depose Dictionary D - verb transitive To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
Deposer Dictionary D - noun One who deposes or degrades from office.
Deposited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deposit.
Depositing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deposit.
Deposit Dictionary D - noun To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.
Depositaries Dictionary D - pleural of Depositary.
Depositary Dictionary D - noun One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; - the correlative of depositor.
Deposition Dictionary D - noun The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
Depositor Dictionary D - noun One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; - the correlative of depository.
Depositories Dictionary D - pleural of Depository.
Depository Dictionary D - noun A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.
Depositum Dictionary D - noun Deposit.
Depositure Dictionary D - noun The act of depositing; deposition.
Depot Dictionary D - noun A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
Depper Dictionary D - adjective Deeper.
Depravation Dictionary D - noun Detraction; depreciation.
Depraved Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deprave.
Depraving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deprave.
Deprave Dictionary D - noun To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
Depravedly Dictionary D - adverb In a depraved manner.
Depravedness Dictionary D - noun Depravity.
Depravement Dictionary D - noun Depravity.
Depraver Dictionary D - noun One who deprave or corrupts.
Depravingly Dictionary D - adverb In a depraving manner.
Depravity Dictionary D - noun The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
Deprecable Dictionary D - adjective That may or should be deprecated.
Deprecated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deprecate.
Deprecating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deprecate.
Deprecate Dictionary D - verb transitive To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
Deprecatingly Dictionary D - adverb In a deprecating manner.
Deprecation Dictionary D - noun The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
Deprecative Dictionary D - adjective Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
Deprecator Dictionary D - noun One who deprecates.
Deprecatory Dictionary D - adjective Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
Depreciated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depreciate.
Depreciating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depreciate.
Depreciate Dictionary D - verb transitive To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
Depreciation Dictionary D - noun The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.
Depreciative Dictionary D - adjective Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.
Depreciator Dictionary D - noun One who depreciates.
Depreciatory Dictionary D - adjective Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.
Depredable Dictionary D - adjective Liable to depredation.
Depredated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depredate.
Depredating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depredate.
Depredate Dictionary D - verb transitive To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.
Depredation Dictionary D - noun The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.
Depredator Dictionary D - noun One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
Depredatory Dictionary D - adjective Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
Depreicate Dictionary D - verb transitive To proclaim; to celebrate.
Deprehended Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deprehend.
Deprehending Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deprehend.
Deprehend Dictionary D - verb transitive To take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.
Deprehensible Dictionary D - adjective That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible.
Deprehension Dictionary D - noun A catching; discovery.
Depressed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depress.
Depressing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depress.
Depress Dictionary D - verb transitive To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
Depressant Dictionary D - noun An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Depressingly Dictionary D - adverb In a depressing manner.
Depression Dictionary D - noun The act of depressing.
Depressive Dictionary D - adjective Able or tending to depress or cast down.
Depressomotor Dictionary D - adjective Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.
Depressor Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
Depriment Dictionary D - adjective Serving to depress.
Deprisure Dictionary D - noun Low estimation; disesteem; contempt.
Deprivable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.
Deprivation Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
Deprived Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deprive.
Depriving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deprive.
Deprive Dictionary D - verb transitive To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
Deprivement Dictionary D - noun Deprivation.
Depriver Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, deprives.
Deprostrate Dictionary D - adjective Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.
Deprovincialize Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Depth Dictionary D - noun The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
Depthen Dictionary D - verb transitive To deepen.
Depthless Dictionary D - adjective Having no depth; shallow.
Depucelate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deflour; to deprive of virginity.
Depudicate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deflour; to dishonor.
Depulse Dictionary D - verb transitive To drive away.
Depulsion Dictionary D - noun A driving or thrusting away.
Depulsory Dictionary D - adjective Driving or thrusting away; averting.
Depurant Dictionary D - adjective & noun Depurative.
Depurate Dictionary D - adjective Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.
Depurated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depurate.
Depurating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depurate.
Depuration Dictionary D - noun The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
Depurative Dictionary D - adjective Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Depurator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, cleanses.
Depuratory Dictionary D - adjective Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
Depure Dictionary D - verb transitive To depurate; to purify.
Depurgatory Dictionary D - adjective Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Depurition Dictionary D - noun See Depuration.
Deputable Dictionary D - adjective Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.
Deputation Dictionary D - noun The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
Deputator Dictionary D - noun One who deputes, or makes a deputation.
Deputed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Depute.
Deputing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Depute.
Depute Dictionary D - verb transitive To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Deputize Dictionary D - verb transitive To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Deputies Dictionary D - pleural of Deputy.
Deputy Dictionary D - noun One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
Dequantitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.
Deracinated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deracinate.
Deracinating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deracinate.
Deracinate Dictionary D - verb transitive To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
Deraination Dictionary D - noun The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.
Deraign Dictionary D - verb transitive Alt. of Derain.
Derain Dictionary D - verb transitive To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).
Deraignment Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Derainment.
Derainment Dictionary D - noun The act of deraigning.
Derailed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Derail.
Derailing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Derail.
Derail Dictionary D - verb transitive To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
Derailment Dictionary D - noun The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
Deranged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Derange.
Deranging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Derange.
Derange Dictionary D - verb transitive To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
Derangement Dictionary D - noun The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
Deranger Dictionary D - noun One who deranges.
Deray Dictionary D - noun Disorder; merriment.
Derbio Dictionary D - noun A large European food fish (Lichia glauca).
Derby Dictionary D - noun A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.
Derbyshire spar Dictionary D - A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.
Derdoing Dictionary D - verb transitive Doing daring or chivalrous deeds.
Dere Dictionary D - verb transitive To hurt; to harm; to injure.
Dereine Dictionary D - verb transitive Alt. of Dereyne.
Dereyne Dictionary D - verb transitive Same as Darraign.
Derelict Dictionary D - adjective Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
Dereliction Dictionary D - noun The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.
Dereligionize Dictionary D - verb transitive To make irreligious; to turn from religion.
Dereling Dictionary D - noun Darling.
Derf Dictionary D - adjective Strong; powerful; fierce.
Derided Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deride.
Deriding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deride.
Deride Dictionary D - verb transitive To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
Derider Dictionary D - noun One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
Deridingly Dictionary D - adverb By way of derision or mockery.
Derision Dictionary D - noun The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
Derisive Dictionary D - adjective Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
Derisory Dictionary D - adjective Derisive; mocking.
Derivable Dictionary D - adjective That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.
Derivably Dictionary D - adverb By derivation.
Derival Dictionary D - noun Derivation.
Derivate Dictionary D - adjective Derived; derivative.
Derivation Dictionary D - noun A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
Derivational Dictionary D - adjective Relating to derivation.
Derivative Dictionary D - adjective Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.
Derived Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Derive.
Deriving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Derive.
Derive Dictionary D - verb transitive To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; - followed by to, into, on, upon.
Derivement Dictionary D - noun That which is derived; deduction; inference.
Deriver Dictionary D - noun One who derives.
Derk Dictionary D - adjective Dark.
-derm Dictionary D - noun A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc.
Derm Dictionary D - verb transitive The integument of animal; the skin.
Derma Dictionary D - noun See Dermis.
Dermal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.
Dermaptera Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dermapteran.
Dermapteran Dictionary D - noun See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.
Dermatic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dermatine.
Dermatine Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the skin.
Dermatitis Dictionary D - noun Inflammation of the skin.
Dermatogen Dictionary D - noun Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.
Dermatography Dictionary D - noun An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.
Dermatoid Dictionary D - adjective Resembling skin; skinlike.
Dermatologist Dictionary D - noun One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.
Dermatology Dictionary D - noun The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.
Dermatopathic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.
Dermatophyte Dictionary D - noun A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.
Dermestes Dictionary D - noun A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.
Dermestoid Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.
Dermic Dictionary D - adjective Relating to the derm or skin.
Dermis Dictionary D - noun The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; - called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
Dermobranchiata Dictionary D - noun plural A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.
Dermobranchiate Dictionary D - adjective Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
Dermohaemal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures; as, the dermohaemal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.
Dermoid Dictionary D - adjective Same as Dermatoid.
Dermoneural Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes.
Dermopathic Dictionary D - adjective Dermatopathic.
Dermophyte Dictionary D - noun A dermatophyte.
Dermoptera Dictionary D - noun plural The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidae).
Dermopteran Dictionary D - noun An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.
Dermopteri Dictionary D - noun plural Same as Dermopterygii.
Dermopterygii Dictionary D - noun plural A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.
Dermoskeleton Dictionary D - noun See Exoskeleton.
Dermostosis Dictionary D - noun Ossification of the dermis.
Dern Dictionary D - noun A gatepost or doorpost.
Derne Dictionary D - adjective To hide; to skulk.
Dernful Dictionary D - adjective Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful.
Dernier Dictionary D - adjective Last; final.
Dernly Dictionary D - adverb Secretly; grievously; mournfully.
Derogant Dictionary D - adjective Derogatory.
Derogated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Derogate.
Derogating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Derogate.
Derogate Dictionary D - verb transitive To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; - said of a law.
Derogately Dictionary D - adverb In a derogatory manner.
Derogation Dictionary D - noun The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; - followed by of, from, or to.
Derogative Dictionary D - adjective Derogatory.
Derogator Dictionary D - noun A detractor.
Derogatorily Dictionary D - adverb In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.
Derogatoriness Dictionary D - noun Quality of being derogatory.
Derogatory Dictionary D - adjective Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; - with from to, or unto.
Derotremata Dictionary D - noun plural The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; - called also Cryptobranchiata.
Derre Dictionary D - adjective Dearer.
Derrick Dictionary D - noun A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.
Derring Dictionary D - adjective Daring or warlike.
Derringer Dictionary D - noun A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.
Derth Dictionary D - noun Dearth; scarcity.
Dertrotheca Dictionary D - noun The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.
Dervish Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dervis.
Dervise Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dervis.
Dervis Dictionary D - noun A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.
Derworth Dictionary D - adjective Precious.
Descant Dictionary D - intransitive verb Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
Descanted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Descant.
Descanting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Descant.
Descanter Dictionary D - noun One who descants.
Descended Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Descend.
Descending Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Descend.
Descend Dictionary D - intransitive verb To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; - the opposite of ascend.
Descendant Dictionary D - adjective Descendent.
Descendent Dictionary D - adjective Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
Descender Dictionary D - noun One who descends.
Descendibility Dictionary D - noun The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
Descendible Dictionary D - adjective Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
Descendingly Dictionary D - adverb In a descending manner.
Descension Dictionary D - noun The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Descensional Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to descension.
Descensive Dictionary D - adjective Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.
Descensory Dictionary D - noun A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.
Descent Dictionary D - noun The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Describable Dictionary D - adjective That can be described; capable of description.
Described Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Describe.
Describing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Describe.
Describe Dictionary D - verb transitive To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
Describent Dictionary D - noun Same as Generatrix.
Describer Dictionary D - noun One who describes.
Descrier Dictionary D - noun One who descries.
Description Dictionary D - noun The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptive Dictionary D - adjective Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Descrive Dictionary D - verb transitive To describe.
Descried Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Descry.
Descrying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Descry.
Descry Dictionary D - verb transitive To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Desecate Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
Desecrated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desecrate.
Desecrating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desecrate.
Desecrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; - the opposite of consecrate.
Desecrater Dictionary D - noun One who desecrates; a profaner.
Desecration Dictionary D - noun The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
Desecrator Dictionary D - noun One who desecrates.
Desegmentation Dictionary D - noun The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.
Desert Dictionary D - noun That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
Deserted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desert.
Deserting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desert.
Deserter Dictionary D - noun One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
Desertful Dictionary D - adjective Meritorious.
Desertion Dictionary D - noun The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
Desertless Dictionary D - adjective Without desert.
Desertlessly Dictionary D - adverb Undeservedly.
Desertness Dictionary D - noun A deserted condition.
Desertrix Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Desertrice.
Desertrice Dictionary D - noun A feminine deserter.
Deserved Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deserve.
Deserving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deserve.
Deserve Dictionary D - verb transitive To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
Deservedly Dictionary D - adverb According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Deservedness Dictionary D - noun Meritoriousness.
Deserver Dictionary D - noun One who deserves.
Deshabille Dictionary D - noun An undress; a careless toilet.
Desiccant Dictionary D - adjective Drying; desiccative.
Desiccated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desiccate.
Desiccating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desiccate.
Desiccate Dictionary D - verb transitive To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
Desiccation Dictionary D - noun The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
Desiccative Dictionary D - adjective Drying; tending to dry.
Desiccator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, desiccates.
Desiccatory Dictionary D - adjective Desiccative.
Desiderable Dictionary D - adjective Desirable.
Desiderata Dictionary D - noun plural See Desideratum.
Desiderated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desiderate.
Desiderating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desiderate.
Desiderate Dictionary D - verb transitive To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Desideration Dictionary D - noun Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.
Desiderative Dictionary D - adjective Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
Desideratum Dictionary D - noun Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
Desidiose Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Desidious.
Desidious Dictionary D - adjective Idle; lazy.
Desidiousness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.
Desight Dictionary D - noun An unsightly object.
Desightment Dictionary D - noun The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.
Designed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Design.
Designing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Design.
Design Dictionary D - noun To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Designable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.
Designate Dictionary D - verb transitive Designated; appointed; chosen.
Designated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Designate.
Designating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Designate.
Designation Dictionary D - noun The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Designative Dictionary D - adjective Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Designator Dictionary D - noun An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
Designatory Dictionary D - adjective Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
Designedly Dictionary D - adverb By design; purposely; intentionally; - opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
Designer Dictionary D - noun One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
Designful Dictionary D - adjective Full of design; scheming.
Designless Dictionary D - adjective Without design.
Designment Dictionary D - noun Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Desilver Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.
Desilverization Dictionary D - noun The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.
Desilverize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.
Desinence Dictionary D - noun Termination; ending.
Desinent Dictionary D - adjective Ending; forming an end; lowermost.
Desinential Dictionary D - adjective Terminal.
Desipient Dictionary D - adjective Foolish; silly; trifling.
Desirability Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
Desirable Dictionary D - verb transitive Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
Desirableness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being desirable.
Desirably Dictionary D - adverb In a desirable manner.
Desired Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desire.
Desiring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desire.
Desire Dictionary D - verb transitive To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
Desireful Dictionary D - adjective Filled with desire; eager.
Desirefulness Dictionary D - noun The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.
Desireless Dictionary D - adjective Free from desire.
Desirer Dictionary D - noun One who desires, asks, or wishes.
Desirous Dictionary D - noun Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
Desirously Dictionary D - adverb With desire; eagerly.
Desirousness Dictionary D - noun The state of being desirous.
Desisted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desist.
Desisting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desist.
Desist Dictionary D - intransitive verb To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; - often with from.
Desistance Dictionary D - noun The act or state of desisting; cessation.
Desistive Dictionary D - adjective Final; conclusive; ending.
Desition Dictionary D - noun An end or ending.
Desitive Dictionary D - adjective Final; serving to complete; conclusive.
Desk Dictionary D - noun A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
Desked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desk.
Desking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desk.
Deskwork Dictionary D - noun Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.
Desman Dictionary D - noun An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.
Desmid Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Desmidian.
Desmidian Dictionary D - noun A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
Desmine Dictionary D - noun Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
Desmobacteria Dictionary D - noun plural See Microbacteria.
Desmodont Dictionary D - noun A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
Desmognathous Dictionary D - adjective Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; - applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
Desmoid Dictionary D - adjective Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
Desmology Dictionary D - noun The science which treats of the ligaments.
Desmomyaria Dictionary D - noun plural The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa.
Desolate Dictionary D - adjective Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Desolated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desolate.
Desolating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desolate.
Desolately Dictionary D - adverb In a desolate manner.
Desolateness Dictionary D - noun The state of being desolate.
Desolater Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
Desolation Dictionary D - noun The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Desolator Dictionary D - noun Same as Desolater.
Desolatory Dictionary D - adjective Causing desolation.
Desophisticate Dictionary D - verb transitive To clear from sophism or error.
Desoxalic Dictionary D - adjective Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
Despaired Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Despair.
Despairing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Despair.
Despair Dictionary D - intransitive verb To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; - often with of.
Despairer Dictionary D - noun One who despairs.
Despairful Dictionary D - adjective Hopeless.
Desparple Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To scatter; to disparkle.
Despatch Dictionary D - noun & verb Same as Dispatch.
Despecificate Dictionary D - verb transitive To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
Despecfication Dictionary D - noun Discrimination.
Despect Dictionary D - noun Contempt.
Despection Dictionary D - noun A looking down; a despising.
Despeed Dictionary D - verb transitive To send hastily.
Despend Dictionary D - verb transitive To spend; to squander. See Dispend.
Desperadoes Dictionary D - pleural of Desperado.
Desperado Dictionary D - noun A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
Desperate Dictionary D - adjective Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
Desperately Dictionary D - adverb In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
Desperateness Dictionary D - noun Desperation; virulence.
Desperation Dictionary D - noun The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
Despicability Dictionary D - noun Despicableness.
Despicable Dictionary D - adjective Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Despicableness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
Despicably Dictionary D - adverb In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.
Despiciency Dictionary D - noun A looking down; despection.
Despisable Dictionary D - adjective Despicable; contemptible.
Despisal Dictionary D - noun A despising; contempt.
Despised Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Despise.
Despising Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Despise.
Despise Dictionary D - verb transitive To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Despisedness Dictionary D - noun The state of being despised.
Despisement Dictionary D - noun A despising.
Despiser Dictionary D - noun One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
Despisingly Dictionary D - adverb Contemptuously.
Despite Dictionary D - noun Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
Despited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Despite.
Despiting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Despite.
Despiteful Dictionary D - adjective Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.
Despiteous Dictionary D - adjective Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.
Despiteously Dictionary D - adverb Despitefully.
Despitous Dictionary D - adjective Despiteous; very angry; cruel.
Despoiled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Despoil.
Despoiling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Despoil.
Despoil Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
Despoiler Dictionary D - noun One who despoils.
Despoilment Dictionary D - noun Despoliation.
Despoliation Dictionary D - noun A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Desponded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Despond.
Desponding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Despond.
Despond Dictionary D - intransitive verb To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
Despondence Dictionary D - noun Despondency.
Despondency Dictionary D - noun The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Despondent Dictionary D - adjective Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
Desponder Dictionary D - noun One who desponds.
Despondingly Dictionary D - adverb In a desponding manner.
Desponsage Dictionary D - noun Betrothal.
Desponsate Dictionary D - verb transitive To betroth.
Desponsation Dictionary D - noun A betrothing; betrothal.
Desponsories Dictionary D - pleural of Desponsory.
Desponsory Dictionary D - noun A written pledge of marriage.
Desport Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive See Disport.
Despot Dictionary D - noun A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
Despotat Dictionary D - noun The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.
Despotic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Despotical.
Despotical Dictionary D - adjective Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
Despotism Dictionary D - noun The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
Despotist Dictionary D - noun A supporter of despotism.
Despotize Dictionary D - verb transitive To act the despot.
Despread Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive See Dispread.
Despumated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Despumate.
Despumating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Despumate.
Despumate Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
Despumation Dictionary D - noun The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.
Despume Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from spume or scum.
Desquamate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
Desquamation Dictionary D - noun The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.
Desquamative Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Desquamatory.
Desquamatory Dictionary D - adjective Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.
Dess Dictionary D - noun Dais.
Dessert Dictionary D - noun A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
Destemper Dictionary D - noun A kind of painting. See Distemper.
Destin Dictionary D - noun Destiny.
Destinable Dictionary D - adjective Determined by destiny; fated.
Destinably Dictionary D - adverb In a destinable manner.
Destinal Dictionary D - adjective Determined by destiny; fated.
Destinate Dictionary D - adjective Destined.
Destination Dictionary D - noun The act of destining or appointing.
Destined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Destine.
Destining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Destine.
Destine Dictionary D - verb transitive To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; - often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.
Destinist Dictionary D - noun A believer in destiny; a fatalist.
Destinies Dictionary D - pleural of Destiny.
Destiny Dictionary D - noun That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
Destituent Dictionary D - adjective Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.
Destitute Dictionary D - adjective Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; - often followed by of.
Destitutely Dictionary D - adverb In destitution.
Destituteness Dictionary D - noun Destitution.
Destitution Dictionary D - noun The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
Destrer Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dextrer.
Dextrer Dictionary D - noun A war horse.
Destrie Dictionary D - verb transitive To destroy.
Destroyed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Destroy.
Destroying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Destroy.
Destroy Dictionary D - verb transitive To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
Destroyable Dictionary D - adjective Destructible.
Destroyer Dictionary D - noun One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
Destruct Dictionary D - verb transitive To destroy.
Destructibility Dictionary D - noun The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.
Destructible Dictionary D - adjective Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
Destructibleness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being destructible.
Destruction Dictionary D - noun The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
Destructionist Dictionary D - noun One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.
Destructive Dictionary D - adjective Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; - often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
Destructively Dictionary D - adverb In a destructive manner.
Destructiveness Dictionary D - noun The quality of destroying or ruining.
Destructor Dictionary D - noun A destroyer.
Destruie Dictionary D - verb transitive To destroy.
Desudation Dictionary D - noun A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.
Desuete Dictionary D - adjective Disused; out of use.
Desuetude Dictionary D - noun The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
Desulphurated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Desulphurate.
Desulphurating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Desulphurate.
Desulphurate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of sulphur.
Desulphuration Dictionary D - noun The act or process of depriving of sulphur.
Desulphurize Dictionary D - verb transitive To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.
Desultorily Dictionary D - adverb In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.
Desultoriness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.
Desultorious Dictionary D - adjective Desultory.
Desultory Dictionary D - adjective Leaping or skipping about.
Desume Dictionary D - verb transitive To select; to borrow.
Desynonymization Dictionary D - noun The act of desynonymizing.
Desynonymize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; - applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.
Detached Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detach.
Detaching Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detach.
Detach Dictionary D - verb transitive To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; - the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
Detachable Dictionary D - adjective That can be detached.
Detachment Dictionary D - noun The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
Detail Dictionary D - noun A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
Detailed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detail.
Detailing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detail.
Detailer Dictionary D - noun One who details.
Detained Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detain.
Detaining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detain.
Detain Dictionary D - verb transitive To keep back or from; to withhold.
Detainder Dictionary D - noun A writ. See Detinue.
Detainer Dictionary D - noun One who detains.
Detainment Dictionary D - noun Detention.
Detect Dictionary D - adjective Detected.
Detected Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detect.
Detecting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detect.
Detectable Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Detectible.
Detectible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable.
Detecter Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
Detection Dictionary D - noun The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot.
Detective Dictionary D - adjective Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
Detector Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.
Detenebrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To remove darkness from.
Detent Dictionary D - noun That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
Detention Dictionary D - noun The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
Deterred Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deter.
Deterring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deter.
Deter Dictionary D - verb transitive To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Deterged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deterge.
Deterging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deterge.
Deterge Dictionary D - verb transitive To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.
Detergency Dictionary D - noun A cleansing quality or power.
Detergent Dictionary D - adjective Cleansing; purging.
Deteriorated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deteriorate.
Deteriorating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deteriorate.
Deteriorate Dictionary D - verb transitive To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
Deterioration Dictionary D - noun The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Deteriority Dictionary D - noun Worse state or quality; inferiority.
Determent Dictionary D - noun The act of deterring; also, that which deters.
Determinability Dictionary D - noun The quality of being determinable; determinableness.
Determinable Dictionary D - verb transitive Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion.
Determinableness Dictionary D - noun Capability of being determined; determinability.
Determinacy Dictionary D - noun Determinateness.
Determinant Dictionary D - adjective Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Determinate Dictionary D - adjective Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.
Determinately Dictionary D - adverb In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.
Determinateness Dictionary D - noun State of being determinate.
Determination Dictionary D - noun The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
Determinative Dictionary D - adjective Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.
Determinator Dictionary D - noun One who determines.
Determined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Determine.
Determining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Determine.
Determine Dictionary D - verb transitive To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
Determinedly Dictionary D - adverb In a determined manner; with determination.
Determiner Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, determines or decides.
Determinism Dictionary D - noun The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
Determinist Dictionary D - noun One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
Deterration Dictionary D - noun The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground.
Deterrence Dictionary D - noun That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.
Deterrent Dictionary D - adjective Serving to deter.
Detersion Dictionary D - noun The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.
Detersive Dictionary D - adjective Cleansing; detergent.
Detersively Dictionary D - adverb In a way to cleanse.
Detersiveness Dictionary D - noun The quality of cleansing.
Detested Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detest.
Detesting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detest.
Detest Dictionary D - verb transitive To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Detestability Dictionary D - noun Capacity of being odious.
Detestable Dictionary D - adjective Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
Detestableness Dictionary D - noun The quality or state of being detestable.
Detestably Dictionary D - adverb In a detestable manner.
Detesttate Dictionary D - verb transitive To detest.
Detestation Dictionary D - noun The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
Detester Dictionary D - noun One who detes//.
Dethroned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dethrone.
Dethroning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dethrone.
Dethrone Dictionary D - verb transitive To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Dethronement Dictionary D - noun Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
Dethroner Dictionary D - noun One who dethrones.
Dethronization Dictionary D - noun Dethronement.
Dethronize Dictionary D - verb transitive To dethrone or unthrone.
Detinue Dictionary D - noun A person or thing detained.
Detonated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detonate.
Detonating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detonate.
Detonate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.
Detonation Dictionary D - noun An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.
Detonator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, detonates.
Detonization Dictionary D - noun The act of detonizing; detonation.
Detonized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detonize.
Detonizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detonize.
Detonize Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.
Detorsion Dictionary D - noun Same as Detortion.
Detorted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detort.
Detorting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detort.
Detort Dictionary D - verb transitive To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
Detortion Dictionary D - noun The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
Detour Dictionary D - noun A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
Detracted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detract.
Detracting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detract.
Detract Dictionary D - verb transitive To take away; to withdraw.
Detracter Dictionary D - noun One who detracts; a detractor.
Detractingly Dictionary D - adverb In a detracting manner.
Detraction Dictionary D - noun A taking away or withdrawing.
Detractious Dictionary D - adjective Containing detraction; detractory.
Detractive Dictionary D - adjective Tending to detractor draw.
Detractiveness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being detractive.
Detracor Dictionary D - noun One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
Detractory Dictionary D - adjective Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.
Detractress Dictionary D - noun A female detractor.
Detrain Dictionary D - verb intransitive & transitive To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Detrect Dictionary D - verb transitive To refuse; to decline.
Detriment Dictionary D - noun That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; - used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
Detrimental Dictionary D - adjective Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
Detrimentalness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.
Detrital Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Detrite Dictionary D - adjective Worn out.
Detrition Dictionary D - noun A wearing off or away.
Detritus Dictionary D - noun A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
Detruded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detrude.
Detruding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detrude.
Detrude Dictionary D - verb transitive To thrust down or out; to push down with force.
Detruncated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Detuncate.
Detruncating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Detuncate.
Detuncate Dictionary D - verb transitive To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
Detruncation Dictionary D - noun The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Detrusion Dictionary D - noun The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Dette Dictionary D - noun Debt.
Detteles Dictionary D - adjective Free from debt.
Detumescence Dictionary D - noun Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Detur Dictionary D - noun A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
Deturb Dictionary D - verb transitive To throw down.
Deturbate Dictionary D - verb transitive To evict; to remove.
Deturbation Dictionary D - noun The act of deturbating.
Deturn Dictionary D - verb transitive To turn away.
Deturpate Dictionary D - verb transitive To defile; to disfigure.
Deturpation Dictionary D - noun A making foul.
Deuce Dictionary D - noun Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
Deuced Dictionary D - adjective Devilish; excessive; extreme.
Deuse Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Deused.
Deused Dictionary D - adjective See Deuce, Deuced.
Deuterocanonical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; - said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.
Deuterogamist Dictionary D - noun One who marries the second time.
Deuterogamy Dictionary D - noun A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; - in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy.
Deuterogenic Dictionary D - adjective Of secondary origin; - said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Deuteronomist Dictionary D - noun The writer of Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy Dictionary D - noun The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.
Deuteropathia Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Deuteropathy.
Deuteropathy Dictionary D - noun A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.
Deuteropathic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.
Deuteroscopy Dictionary D - noun Second sight.
Deuterozooid Dictionary D - noun One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
Deuthydroguret Dictionary D - noun Same as Deutohydroguret.
Deuto- Dictionary D - Alt. of Deut-.
Deut- Dictionary D - A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used.
Deutohydroguret Dictionary D - noun A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.
Deutoplasm Dictionary D - noun The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.
Deutoplastic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.
Deutosulphuret Dictionary D - noun A disulphide.
Deutoxide Dictionary D - noun A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; - usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.
Deutzia Dictionary D - noun A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.
Dev Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Deva.
Deva Dictionary D - noun A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.
Devanagari Dictionary D - noun The character in which Sanskrit is written.
Devaporation Dictionary D - noun The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.
Devast Dictionary D - verb transitive To devastate.
Devastated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devastate.
Devastating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devastate.
Devastate Dictionary D - verb transitive To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Devastation Dictionary D - noun The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
Devastator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, devastates.
Devastavit Dictionary D - noun Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
Devata Dictionary D - noun A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol.
Deve Dictionary D - adjective Deaf.
Develin Dictionary D - noun The European swift.
Developed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Develop.
Developing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Develop.
Develop Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
Developable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being developed.
Developer Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, develops.
Development Dictionary D - noun The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.
Developmental Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
Devenustate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of beauty or grace.
Devergence Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Devergency.
Devergency Dictionary D - noun See Divergence.
Devested Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devest.
Devesting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devest.
Devest Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest; to undress.
Devex Dictionary D - adjective Bending down; sloping.
Devexity Dictionary D - adjective A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.
Devi Dictionary D - noun; fem. of Deva. A goddess.
Deviant Dictionary D - adjective Deviating.
Deviated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Deviate.
Deviating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Deviate.
Deviate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Deviation Dictionary D - noun The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
Deviator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, deviates.
Deviatory Dictionary D - adjective Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion.
Device Dictionary D - noun That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
Deviceful Dictionary D - adjective Full of devices; inventive.
Devicefully Dictionary D - adverb In a deviceful manner.
Devil Dictionary D - noun The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
Deviled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devil.
Devilled Dictionary D - of Devil.
Deviling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devil.
Devilling Dictionary D - of Devil.
Devil-diver Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Devil bird.
Devil bird Dictionary D - noun A small water bird. See Dabchick.
Deviless Dictionary D - noun A she-devil.
Devilet Dictionary D - noun A little devil.
Devilfish Dictionary D - noun A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.
Devilish Dictionary D - adjective Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
Devilism Dictionary D - noun The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.
Devilize Dictionary D - verb transitive To make a devil of.
Devilkin Dictionary D - noun A little devil; a devilet.
Devilment Dictionary D - noun Deviltry.
Devilries Dictionary D - pleural of Devilry.
Devilry Dictionary D - noun Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
Devil's darning-needle Dictionary D - A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
Devilship Dictionary D - noun The character or person of a devil or the devil.
Deviltries Dictionary D - pleural of Deviltry.
Deviltry Dictionary D - noun Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry.
Devilwood Dictionary D - noun A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.
Devious Dictionary D - adjective Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
Devirginate Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of virginity.
Devirgination Dictionary D - noun A deflouring.
Devisable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.
Devisal Dictionary D - noun A devising.
Devised Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devise.
Devising Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devise.
Devise Dictionary D - verb transitive To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
Devisee Dictionary D - noun One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
Deviser Dictionary D - noun One who devises.
Devisor Dictionary D - noun One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; - correlative to devisee.
Devitable Dictionary D - adjective Avoidable.
Devitalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of life or vitality.
Devitation Dictionary D - noun An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning.
Devitrification Dictionary D - noun The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.
Devitrify Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.
Devocalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
Devocation Dictionary D - noun A calling off or away.
Devoid Dictionary D - verb transitive To empty out; to remove.
Devoir Dictionary D - noun Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; - now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.
Devolute Dictionary D - verb transitive To devolve.
Devolution Dictionary D - noun The act of rolling down.
Devolved Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devolve.
Devolving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devolve.
Devolve Dictionary D - verb transitive To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
Devolvement Dictionary D - noun The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
Devon Dictionary D - noun One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
Devonian Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.
Devoration Dictionary D - noun The act of devouring.
Devotary Dictionary D - noun A votary.
Devoted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devote.
Devoting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devote.
Devote Dictionary D - verb transitive To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.
Devotee Dictionary D - noun One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Devotement Dictionary D - noun The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
Devoter Dictionary D - noun One who devotes; a worshiper.
Devotion Dictionary D - noun The act of devoting; consecration.
Devotional Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
Devotionalist Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Devotionist.
Devotionist Dictionary D - noun One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
Devotionality Dictionary D - noun The practice of a devotionalist.
Devotionally Dictionary D - adverb In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
Devoto Dictionary D - noun A devotee.
Devotor Dictionary D - noun A worshiper; one given to devotion.
Devoured Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Devour.
Devouring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Devour.
Devour Dictionary D - verb transitive To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Devourable Dictionary D - adjective That may be devoured.
Devourer Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, devours.
Devouringly Dictionary D - adverb In a devouring manner.
Devout Dictionary D - verb transitive Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
Devoutful Dictionary D - adjective Full of devotion.
Devoutless Dictionary D - adjective Destitute of devotion.
Devoutly Dictionary D - adverb In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously.
Devoutness Dictionary D - noun Quality or state of being devout.
Devove Dictionary D - verb transitive To devote.
Devow Dictionary D - verb transitive To give up; to devote.
Devulgarize Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow.
Dew Dictionary D - noun Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
Dewed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dew.
Dewing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dew.
Dewberry Dictionary D - noun The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.
Dewclaw Dictionary D - noun In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.
Dewdrop Dictionary D - noun A drop of dew.
Dewfall Dictionary D - noun The falling of dew; the time when dew begins to fall.
Dewiness Dictionary D - noun State of being dewy.
Dewlap Dictionary D - noun The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.
Dewlapped Dictionary D - adjective Furnished with a dewlap.
Dewless Dictionary D - adjective Having no dew.
Dew-point Dictionary D - noun The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
Dewret Dictionary D - verb transitive To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.
Dewretting Dictionary D - noun Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.
Dewrot Dictionary D - verb transitive To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.
Dewworm Dictionary D - noun See Earthworm.
Dewy Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.
Dexter Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left.
Dexterical Dictionary D - adjective Dexterous.
Dexterity Dictionary D - noun Right-handedness.
Dexterous Dictionary D - adjective Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.
Dexterously Dictionary D - adverb In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
Dexterousness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
Dextrad Dictionary D - adverb Toward the right side; dextrally.
Dextral Dictionary D - adjective Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.
Dextrality Dictionary D - noun The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.
Dextrally Dictionary D - adverb Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
Dextrin Dictionary D - noun A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; - called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Erythrodextrin.
Dextro- Dictionary D - A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right.
Dextrogerous Dictionary D - adjective See Dextrogyrate.
Dextroglucose Dictionary D - noun Same as Dextrose.
Dextrogyrate Dictionary D - adjective Same as Dextrorotatory.
Dextronic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid.
Dextrorotary Dictionary D - adjective See Dextrotatory.
Dextrorotatory Dictionary D - adjective Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.
Dextrorsal Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dextrorse.
Dextrorse Dictionary D - adjective Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory.
Dextrose Dictionary D - noun A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.
Dextrous Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dextrousness.
Dextrously Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dextrousness.
Dextrousness Dictionary D - noun Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc.
Dey Dictionary D - noun A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Deys Dictionary D - pleural of Dey.
Deye Dictionary D - intransitive verb To die.
Deynte Dictionary D - noun & adjective Alt. of Deyntee.
Deyntee Dictionary D - noun & adjective See Dainty.
Dezincification Dictionary D - noun The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.
Dezincify Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of, or free from, zinc.
Dhole Dictionary D - noun A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.
Dhony Dictionary D - noun A Ceylonese boat. See Doni.
Dhoorra Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dhurra.
Dhourra Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dhurra.
Dhurra Dictionary D - noun Indian millet. See Durra.
Dhow Dictionary D - noun A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
Di- Dictionary D - A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice.
Dia- Dictionary D - Alt. of Di-.
Diabase Dictionary D - noun A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; - often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
Diabaterial Dictionary D - adjective Passing over the borders.
Diabetes Dictionary D - noun A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.
Diabetic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diabetical.
Diabetical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment.
Diablerie Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diabley.
Diabley Dictionary D - noun Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.
Diabolic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diabolical.
Diabolical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.
Diabolify Dictionary D - verb transitive To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.
Diabolism Dictionary D - noun Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
Diabolize Dictionary D - verb transitive To render diabolical.
Diacatholicon Dictionary D - noun A universal remedy; - name formerly to a purgative electuary.
Diacaustic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.
Diachylon Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diachylum.
Diachylum Dictionary D - noun A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
Diacid Dictionary D - adjective Divalent; - said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid.
Diacodium Dictionary D - noun A sirup made of poppies.
Diaconal Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a deacon.
Diaconate Dictionary D - noun The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.
Diacope Dictionary D - noun Tmesis.
Diacoustic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.
Diacoustics Dictionary D - noun That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; - called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.
Diacritic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diacritical.
Diacritical Dictionary D - adjective That separates or distinguishes; - applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.
Diactinic Dictionary D - adjective Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.
Diadelphia Dictionary D - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
Diadelphian Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diadelphous.
Diadelphous Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).
Diadem Dictionary D - noun Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
Diadrom Dictionary D - noun A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.
Diaereses Dictionary D - pleural of Dieresis.
Diereses Dictionary D - pleural of Dieresis.
Diaeresis Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dieresis.
Dieresis Dictionary D - noun The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; - the opposite of synaeresis.
Diaeretic Dictionary D - adjective Caustic.
Diageotropic Dictionary D - adjective Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.
Diageotropism Dictionary D - noun The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.
Diaglyph Dictionary D - noun An intaglio.
Diaglyphic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diaglyphtic.
Diaglyphtic Dictionary D - adjective Represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; - opposed to anaglyphic.
Diagnose Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.
Diagnoses Dictionary D - pleural of Diagnosis.
Diagnosis Dictionary D - noun The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.
Diagnostic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
Diagnosticate Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.
Diagnostics Dictionary D - noun That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
Diagometer Dictionary D - noun A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power.
Diagonal Dictionary D - adjective Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
Diagonally Dictionary D - adverb In a diagonal direction.
Diagonial Dictionary D - adjective Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed.
Diagram Dictionary D - noun A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.
Diagrammatic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.
Diagraph Dictionary D - noun A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.
Diagraphic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diagraphical.
Diagraphical Dictionary D - adjective Descriptive.
Diagraphics Dictionary D - noun The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.
Diaheliotropic Dictionary D - adjective Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
Diaheliotropism Dictionary D - noun A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
Dial Dictionary D - noun An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
Dialed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dial.
Dialled Dictionary D - of Dial.
Dialing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dial.
Dialling Dictionary D - of Dial.
Dialect Dictionary D - noun Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Dialectal Dictionary D - adjective Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
Dialectic Dictionary D - noun Same as Dialectics.
Dialectical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
Dialectically Dictionary D - adverb In a dialectical manner.
Dialectician Dictionary D - noun One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
Dialectics Dictionary D - noun That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.
Dialectology Dictionary D - noun That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
Dialector Dictionary D - noun One skilled in dialectics.
Dialist Dictionary D - noun A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.
Diallage Dictionary D - noun A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
Diallel Dictionary D - adjective Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; - opposed to parallel.
Diallyl Dictionary D - noun A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.
Dialogical Dictionary D - adjective Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.
Dialogically Dictionary D - adverb In the manner or nature of a dialogue.
Dialogism Dictionary D - noun An imaginary speech or discussion between two or more; dialogue.
Dialogist Dictionary D - noun A speaker in a dialogue.
Dialogistic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dialogistical.
Dialogistical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue.
Dialogite Dictionary D - noun Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.
Dialogize Dictionary D - verb transitive To discourse in dialogue.
Dialogue Dictionary D - noun A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
Dialypetalous Dictionary D - adjective Having separate petals; polypetalous.
Dialyses Dictionary D - pleural of Dialysis.
Dialysis Dictionary D - noun Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1.
Dialytic Dictionary D - adjective Having the quality of unloosing or separating.
Dialyzate Dictionary D - noun The material subjected to dialysis.
Dialyzation Dictionary D - noun The act or process of dialysis.
Dialyzed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dialyze.
Dialyzing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dialyze.
Dialyze Dictionary D - verb transitive To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.
Dialyzer Dictionary D - noun The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.
Diamagnet Dictionary D - noun A body having diamagnetic polarity.
Diamagnetic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic.
Diamagnetically Dictionary D - adverb In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.
Diamagnetism Dictionary D - noun The science which treats of diamagnetic phenomena, and of the properties of diamagnetic bodies.
Diamantiferous Dictionary D - adjective Yielding diamonds.
Diamantine Dictionary D - adjective Adamantine.
Diameter Dictionary D - noun Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.
Diametral Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.
Diametrally Dictionary D - adverb Diametrically.
Diametric Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diametrical.
Diametrical Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a diameter.
Diametrically Dictionary D - adverb In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite.
Diamide Dictionary D - noun Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, - as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.
Diamido- Dictionary D - adjective A prefix or combining form of Diamine. Also used adjectively..
Diamine Dictionary D - noun A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, - as contrasted with a diamide.
Diamond Dictionary D - noun A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
Diamond-back Dictionary D - noun The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
Diamonded Dictionary D - adjective Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
Diamondize Dictionary D - verb transitive To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich.
Diamond-shaped Dictionary D - adjective Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
Diamylene Dictionary D - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.
Dian Dictionary D - adjective Diana.
Diana Dictionary D - noun The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; - identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.
Diandria Dictionary D - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens.
Diandrian Dictionary D - adjective Diandrous.
Diandrous Dictionary D - noun Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.
Dianium Dictionary D - noun Same as Columbium.
Dianoetic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
Dianoialogy Dictionary D - noun The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations.
Dianthus Dictionary D - noun A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
Diapase Dictionary D - noun Same as Diapason.
Diapasm Dictionary D - noun Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.
Diapason Dictionary D - noun The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
Diapedesis Dictionary D - noun The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.
Diapente Dictionary D - noun The interval of the fifth.
Diaper Dictionary D - noun Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
Diapering Dictionary D - noun Same as Diaper, n., 2.
Diaphane Dictionary D - noun A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.
Diaphaned Dictionary D - adjective Transparent or translucent.
Diaphaneity Dictionary D - noun The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.
Diaphanic Dictionary D - adjective Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.
Diaphanie Dictionary D - noun The art of imitating //ined glass with translucent paper.
Diaphanometer Dictionary D - noun An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.
Diaphanoscope Dictionary D - noun A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.
Diaphanotype Dictionary D - noun A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
Diaphanous Dictionary D - adjective Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
Diaphanously Dictionary D - adverb Translucently.
Diaphemetric Dictionary D - adjective Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses.
Diaphonic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diaphonical.
Diaphonical Dictionary D - adjective Diacoustic.
Diaphonics Dictionary D - noun The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
Diaphoresis Dictionary D - noun Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.
Diaphoretic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diaphoretical.
Diaphoretical Dictionary D - adjective Having the power to increase perspiration.
Diaphote Dictionary D - noun An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.
Diaphragm Dictionary D - noun A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
Diaphragmatic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.
Diaphysis Dictionary D - noun An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.
Diapnoic Dictionary D - adjective Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.
Diapophysical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a diapophysis.
Diapophysis Dictionary D - noun The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Diarchy Dictionary D - noun A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.
Diarial Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diarian.
Diarian Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a diary; daily.
Diarist Dictionary D - noun One who keeps a diary.
Diarrhea Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea Dictionary D - noun A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
Diarrheal Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diarrhoeal.
Diarrhoeal Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
Diarrhetic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diarrhoetic.
Diarrhoetic Dictionary D - adjective Producing diarrhea, or a purging.
Diarthrodial Dictionary D - adjective Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.
Diarthrosis Dictionary D - noun A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.
Diaries Dictionary D - pleural of Diary.
Diary Dictionary D - noun A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
Diaspore Dictionary D - noun A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; - so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastase Dictionary D - noun A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Diastasic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
Diastasis Dictionary D - noun A forcible of bones without fracture.
Diastatic Dictionary D - adjective Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.
Diastem Dictionary D - noun Intervening space; interval.
Diastema Dictionary D - noun A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Diaster Dictionary D - noun A double star; - applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.
Diastole Dictionary D - noun The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; - correlative to systole, or contraction.
Diastolic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to diastole.
Diastyle Dictionary D - noun See under Intercolumniation.
Diatessaron Dictionary D - noun The interval of a fourth.
Diathermal Dictionary D - adjective Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Diathermancy Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diathermaneity.
Diathermaneity Dictionary D - noun The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.
Diathermanism Dictionary D - noun The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.
Diathermanous Dictionary D - adjective Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; - opposed to athermanous.
Diathermic Dictionary D - adjective Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.
Diathermometer Dictionary D - noun An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.
Diathermous Dictionary D - adjective Same as Diathermal.
Diathesis Dictionary D - noun Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
Diathetic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.
Diatom Dictionary D - noun One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
Diatomic Dictionary D - adjective Containing two atoms.
Diatomous Dictionary D - adjective Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; - said of crystals.
Diatonic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
Diatonically Dictionary D - adverb In a diatonic manner.
Diatribe Dictionary D - noun A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
Diatribist Dictionary D - noun One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.
Diatryma Dictionary D - noun An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.
Diazeuctic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diazeutic.
Diazeutic Dictionary D - adjective Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth.
Diazo- Dictionary D - A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.
Diazotize Dictionary D - verb transitive To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.
Dib Dictionary D - intransitive verb To dip.
Dibasic Dictionary D - adjective Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; - said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.
Dibasicity Dictionary D - noun The property or condition of being dibasic.
Dibber Dictionary D - noun A dibble.
Dibble Dictionary D - intransitive verb A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
Dibbled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dibble.
Dibbling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dibble.
Dibbler Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.
Dibranchiata Dictionary D - noun plural An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.
Dibranchiate Dictionary D - adjective Having two gills.
Dibs Dictionary D - noun A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
Dibstone Dictionary D - noun A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.
Dibutyl Dictionary D - noun A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.
Dicacious Dictionary D - adjective Talkative; pert; saucy.
Dicacity Dictionary D - noun Pertness; sauciness.
Dicalcic Dictionary D - adjective Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.
Dicarbonic Dictionary D - adjective Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
Dicast Dictionary D - noun A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.
Dicastery Dictionary D - noun A court of justice; judgment hall.
Die Dictionary D - pleural of Dice.
Dice Dictionary D - noun Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.
Diced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dice.
Dicing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dice.
Dicebox Dictionary D - noun A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
Dicentra Dictionary D - noun A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).
Dicephalous Dictionary D - adjective Having two heads on one body; double-headed.
Dicer Dictionary D - noun A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
Dich Dictionary D - intransitive verb To ditch.
Dichastic Dictionary D - adjective Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
Dichlamydeous Dictionary D - adjective Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.
Dichloride Dictionary D - noun Same as Bichloride.
Dichogamous Dictionary D - adjective Manifesting dichogamy.
Dichogamy Dictionary D - noun The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
Dichotomist Dictionary D - noun One who dichotomizes.
Dichotomized Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dichotomize.
Dichotomizing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dichotomize.
Dichotomize Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
Dichotomous Dictionary D - adjective Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
Dichotomy Dictionary D - noun A cutting in two; a division.
Dichroic Dictionary D - adjective Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dichroiscope Dictionary D - noun Same as Dichroscope.
Dichroism Dictionary D - noun The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.
Dichroite Dictionary D - noun Iolite; - so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
Dichroitic Dictionary D - adjective Dichroic.
Dichromate Dictionary D - noun A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; - called also bichromate.
Dichromatic Dictionary D - adjective Having or exhibiting two colors.
Dichromatism Dictionary D - noun The state of being dichromatic.
Dichromic Dictionary D - adjective Furnishing or giving two colors; - said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.
Dichroous Dictionary D - adjective Dichroic.
Dichroscope Dictionary D - noun An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.
Dichroscopic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.
Dickcissel Dictionary D - noun The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).
Dickens Dictionary D - noun noun interjection The devil.
Dicker Dictionary D - noun The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
Dickey Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dicky.
Dicky Dictionary D - noun A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
Diclinic Dictionary D - adjective Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.
Diclinous Dictionary D - adjective Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.
Dicoccous Dictionary D - adjective Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.
Dicotyledon Dictionary D - noun A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.
Dicotyledonous Dictionary D - adjective Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.
Dicrotal Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dicrotous.
Dicrotous Dictionary D - adjective Dicrotic.
Dicrotic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.
Dicrotism Dictionary D - noun A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.
Dicta Dictionary D - noun plural See Dictum.
Dictamen Dictionary D - noun A dictation or dictate.
Dictamnus Dictionary D - noun A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.
Dictated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dictate.
Dictating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dictate.
Dictate Dictionary D - verb transitive To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.
Dictation Dictionary D - noun The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
Dictator Dictionary D - noun One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Dictatorial Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Dictatorian Dictionary D - adjective Dictatorial.
Dictatorship Dictionary D - noun The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Dictatory Dictionary D - adjective Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial.
Dictatress Dictionary D - noun A woman who dictates or commands.
Dictatrix Dictionary D - noun A dictatress.
Dictature Dictionary D - noun Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
Diction Dictionary D - noun Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.
Dictionalrian Dictionary D - noun A lexicographer.
Dictionaries Dictionary D - pleural of Dictionary.
Dictionary Dictionary D - noun A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
Dictums Dictionary D - pleural of Dictum.
Dictum Dictionary D - noun An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Dictyogen Dictionary D - noun A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.
Dicyanide Dictionary D - noun A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; - called also bicyanide.
Dicyemata Dictionary D - noun plural An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.
Dicyemid Dictionary D - adjective Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.
Dicynodont Dictionary D - noun One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.
Did Dictionary D - imp. of Do.
Didactic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Didactical.
Didactical Dictionary D - adjective Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.
Didactically Dictionary D - adverb In a didactic manner.
Didacticism Dictionary D - noun The didactic method or system.
Didacticity Dictionary D - noun Aptitude for teaching.
Didactics Dictionary D - noun The art or science of teaching.
Didactyl Dictionary D - noun An animal having only two digits.
Didactylous Dictionary D - adjective Having only two digits; two-toed.
Didal Dictionary D - noun A kind of triangular spade.
Didapper Dictionary D - noun See Dabchick.
Didascalar Dictionary D - adjective Didascalic.
Didascalic Dictionary D - adjective Didactic; preceptive.
Diddle Dictionary D - intransitive verb To totter, as a child in walking.
Diddler Dictionary D - noun A cheat.
Didelphia Dictionary D - noun plural The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.
Didelphian Dictionary D - adjective Of or relating to the Didelphia.
Didelphic Dictionary D - adjective Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.
Didelphid Dictionary D - adjective Same as Didelphic.
Didelphous Dictionary D - adjective Didelphic.
Didelphyc Dictionary D - adjective Same as Didelphic.
Didine Dictionary D - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.
Didos Dictionary D - pleural of Dido.
Dido Dictionary D - noun A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
Didonia Dictionary D - noun The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
Didrachm Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Didrachma.
Didrachma Dictionary D - noun A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.
Didst Dictionary D - the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.
Diducement Dictionary D - noun Diduction; separation into distinct parts.
Diduction Dictionary D - noun The act of drawing apart; separation.
Didym Dictionary D - noun See Didymium.
Didymium Dictionary D - noun A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; - hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.
Didymous Dictionary D - adjective Growing in pairs or twins.
Didynamia Dictionary D - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Didynamian Dictionary D - adjective Didynamous.
Didynamous Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Died Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Die.
Dying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Die.
Dies Dictionary D - pleural of Die.
Diecian Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diecious.
Diecious Dictionary D - adjective See Dioecian, and Dioecious.
Diedral Dictionary D - adjective The same as Dihedral.
Diegesis Dictionary D - noun A narrative or history; a recital or relation.
Dielectric Dictionary D - noun Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.
Dielytra Dictionary D - noun See Dicentra.
Diencephalon Dictionary D - noun The interbrain or thalamencephalon; - sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.
Diesinker Dictionary D - noun An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.
Diesinking Dictionary D - noun The process of engraving dies.
Dieses Dictionary D - pleural of Diesis.
Diesis Dictionary D - noun A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.
Dies Irae Dictionary D - Day of wrath; - the name and beginning of a famous mediaeval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.
Dies juridici Dictionary D - pleural of Dies juridicus.
Dies juridicus Dictionary D - A court day.
Dies non Dictionary D - A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legal holiday.
Diestock Dictionary D - noun A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
Diet Dictionary D - noun Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
Dieted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Diet.
Dieting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Diet.
Dietarian Dictionary D - noun One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.
Dietary Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.
Dietaries Dictionary D - pleural of Dietary.
Dieter Dictionary D - noun One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.
Dietetic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dietetical.
Dietetical Dictionary D - adjective Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.
Dietetically Dictionary D - adverb In a dietetical manner.
Dietetics Dictionary D - noun That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet.
Dietetist Dictionary D - noun A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.
Diethylamine Dictionary D - noun A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.
Dietic Dictionary D - adjective Dietetic.
Dietical Dictionary D - adjective Dietetic.
Dietine Dictionary D - noun A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.
Dietist Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dietitian.
Dietitian Dictionary D - noun One skilled in dietetics.
Diffame Dictionary D - noun Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.
Diffarreation Dictionary D - noun A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation.
Differed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Differ.
Differing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Differ.
Differ Dictionary D - intransitive verb To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; - with from.
Difference Dictionary D - noun The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?.
Differenced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Difference.
Differencing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Difference.
Different Dictionary D - adjective Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
Differentiae Dictionary D - pleural of Differentia.
Differentia Dictionary D - noun The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
Differential Dictionary D - adjective Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
Differentially Dictionary D - adverb In the way of differentiation.
Differentiate Dictionary D - verb transitive To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.
Differentiation Dictionary D - noun The act of differentiating.
Differentiator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, differentiates.
Differently Dictionary D - adverb In a different manner; variously.
Differingly Dictionary D - adverb In a differing or different manner.
Difficile Dictionary D - adjective Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.
Difficilitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To make difficult.
Difficult Dictionary D - adjective Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Difficultate Dictionary D - verb transitive To render difficult; to difficilitate.
Difficultly Dictionary D - adverb With difficulty.
Difficultness Dictionary D - noun Difficulty.
Difficulties Dictionary D - pleural of Difficulty.
Difficulty Dictionary D - noun The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; - opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Diffide Dictionary D - intransitive verb To be distrustful.
Diffidence Dictionary D - noun The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
Diffidency Dictionary D - noun See Diffidence.
Diffident Dictionary D - adjective Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
Diffidently Dictionary D - adverb In a diffident manner.
Diffind Dictionary D - verb transitive To split.
Diffine Dictionary D - verb transitive To define.
Diffinitive Dictionary D - adjective Definitive; determinate; final.
Diffission Dictionary D - noun Act of cleaving or splitting.
Difflation Dictionary D - noun A blowing apart or away.
Diffluence Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diffluency.
Diffluency Dictionary D - noun A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
Diffluent Dictionary D - adjective Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.
Difform Dictionary D - adjective Irregular in form; - opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.
Difformity Dictionary D - noun Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity.
Diffracted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Diffract.
Diffracting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Diffract.
Diffract Dictionary D - verb transitive To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.
Diffraction Dictionary D - noun The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
Diffractive Dictionary D - adjective That produces diffraction.
Diffranchise Dictionary D - Alt. of Diffranchisement.
Diffranchisement Dictionary D - See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.
Diffusate Dictionary D - noun Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
Diffused Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Diffuse.
Diffusing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Diffuse.
Diffuse Dictionary D - verb transitive To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
Diffusely Dictionary D - adverb In a diffuse manner.
Diffuseness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
Diffuser Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, diffuses.
Diffusibility Dictionary D - noun The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
Diffusible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
Diffusibleness Dictionary D - noun Diffusibility.
Diffusion Dictionary D - noun The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Diffusive Dictionary D - adjective Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
Diffusively Dictionary D - adverb In a diffusive manner.
Diffusiveness Dictionary D - noun The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Diffusivity Dictionary D - noun Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
Dug Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dig.
Digged Dictionary D - of Dig.
Digging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dig.
Dig Dictionary D - verb transitive To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Digamist Dictionary D - noun One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
Digamma Dictionary D - noun A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
Digammate Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Digammated.
Digammated Dictionary D - adjective Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /.
Digamous Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
Digamy Dictionary D - noun Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.
Digastric Dictionary D - adjective Having two bellies; biventral; - applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
Digenea Dictionary D - noun plural A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
Digenesis Dictionary D - noun The faculty of multiplying in two ways; - by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.
Digenous Dictionary D - adjective Sexually reproductive.
Digerent Dictionary D - Digesting.
Digested Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Digest.
Digesting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Digest.
Digest Dictionary D - verb transitive To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
Digestedly Dictionary D - adverb In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
Digester Dictionary D - noun One who digests.
Digestibility Dictionary D - noun The quality of being digestible.
Digestible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being digested.
Digestibleness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
Digestion Dictionary D - noun The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
Digestive Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestor Dictionary D - noun See Digester.
Digesture Dictionary D - noun Digestion.
Diggable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being dug.
Digger Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, digs.
Diggers Dictionary D - noun plural A degraded tribe of California Indians; - so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Dight Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dight.
Dighted Dictionary D - of Dight.
Dighting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dight.
Dighter Dictionary D - noun One who dights.
Digit Dictionary D - noun One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
Digital Dictionary D - adjective Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
Digitain Dictionary D - noun Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
Digitalis Dictionary D - noun A genus of plants including the foxglove.
Digitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To point out as with the finger.
Digitated Dictionary D - adjective Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
Digitation Dictionary D - noun A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
Digitiform Dictionary D - adjective Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
Digitigrade Dictionary D - adjective Walking on the toes; - distinguished from plantigrade.
Digitipartite Dictionary D - adjective Parted like the fingers.
Digitize Dictionary D - verb transitive To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
Digitorium Dictionary D - noun A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; - called also dumb piano.
Digitule Dictionary D - noun A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
Digladiate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
Digladiation Dictionary D - noun Act of digladiating.
Diglottism Dictionary D - noun Bilingualism.
Diglyph Dictionary D - noun A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
Dignation Dictionary D - noun The act of thinking worthy; honor.
Digne Dictionary D - adjective Worthy; honorable; deserving.
Dignification Dictionary D - noun The act of dignifying; exaltation.
Dignified Dictionary D - adjective Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
Dignifying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dignify.
Dignify Dictionary D - verb transitive To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Dignitaries Dictionary D - pleural of Dignitary.
Dignitary Dictionary D - noun One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Dignities Dictionary D - pleural of Dignity.
Dignity Dictionary D - noun The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Dignotion Dictionary D - noun Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
Digonous Dictionary D - adjective Having two angles.
Digram Dictionary D - noun A digraph.
Digraph Dictionary D - noun Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
Digraphic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a digraph.
Digressed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Digress.
Digressing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Digress.
Digress Dictionary D - intransitive verb To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
Digression Dictionary D - noun The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Digressional Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
Digressive Dictionary D - adjective Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
Digressively Dictionary D - adverb By way of digression.
Digue Dictionary D - noun A bank; a dike.
Digynia Dictionary D - noun A Linnaean order of plants having two styles.
Digynian Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Digynous.
Digynous Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
Dihedral Dictionary D - adjective Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.
Dihedron Dictionary D - noun A figure with two sides or surfaces.
Dihexagonal Dictionary D - adjective Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
Diiamb Dictionary D - noun A diiambus.
Diiambus Dictionary D - noun A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).
Diiodide Dictionary D - noun A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; - called also biniodide.
Diisatogen Dictionary D - noun A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.
Dijudicant Dictionary D - noun One who dijudicates.
Dijudicated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dijudicate.
Dijucating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dijudicate.
Dijudicate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine.
Dijudication Dictionary D - noun The act of dijudicating; judgment.
Dika Dictionary D - noun A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; - called also dika bread.
Dike Dictionary D - noun A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Diked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dike.
Diking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dike.
Diker Dictionary D - noun A ditcher.
Dilacerated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dilacerate.
Dilacerating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dilacerate.
Dilacerate Dictionary D - verb transitive To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
Dilaceration Dictionary D - noun The act of rending asunder.
Dilaniate Dictionary D - verb transitive To rend in pieces; to tear.
Dilaniation Dictionary D - noun A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration.
Dilapidated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dilapidate.
Dilapidating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dilapidate.
Dilapidate Dictionary D - verb transitive To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; - said of a building.
Dilapidation Dictionary D - noun The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
Dilapidator Dictionary D - noun One who causes dilapidation.
Dilatability Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; - opposed to contractibility.
Dilatable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; - opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
Dilatation Dictionary D - noun Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
Dilatator Dictionary D - noun A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.
Dilated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dilate.
Dilating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dilate.
Dilate Dictionary D - verb transitive To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; - opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
Dilatedly Dictionary D - adverb In a dilated manner.
Dilater Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
Dilation Dictionary D - noun Delay.
Dilative Dictionary D - adjective Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
Dilatometer Dictionary D - noun An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.
Dilator Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, widens or expands.
Dilatorily Dictionary D - adverb With delay; tardily.
Dilatoriness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
Dilatory Dictionary D - adjective Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
Dildo Dictionary D - noun A burden in popular songs.
Dilection Dictionary D - noun Love; choice.
Dilemma Dictionary D - noun An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
Dilettant Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.
Dilettanti Dictionary D - pleural of Dilettante.
Dilettante Dictionary D - verb transitive An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
Dilettanteish Dictionary D - adjective Somewhat like a dilettante.
Dilettanteism Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
Dilettantish Dictionary D - adjective Dilettanteish.
Dilettantism Dictionary D - noun Same as Dilettanteism.
Diligence Dictionary D - noun The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; - the opposite of negligence.
Diligency Dictionary D - noun Diligence; care; persevering endeavor.
Diligent Dictionary D - adjective Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
Diligently Dictionary D - adverb In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.
Dill Dictionary D - noun An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; - called also dillseed.
Dilling Dictionary D - noun A darling; a favorite.
Dilluing Dictionary D - noun A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.
Dilly Dictionary D - noun A kind of stagecoach.
Dilly-dally Dictionary D - intransitive verb To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Dilogical Dictionary D - adjective Ambiguous; of double meaning.
Dilogies Dictionary D - pleural of Dilogy.
Dilogy Dictionary D - noun An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
Dilucid Dictionary D - adjective Clear; lucid.
Dilucidate Dictionary D - verb transitive To elucidate.
Dilucidation Dictionary D - noun The act of making clear.
Diluent Dictionary D - adjective Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.
Diluted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dilute.
Diluting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dilute.
Dilute Dictionary D - verb transitive To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
Diluteness Dictionary D - noun The quality or state of being dilute.
Diluter Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
Dilution Dictionary D - noun The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.
Diluvial Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.
Diluvialist Dictionary D - noun One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
Diluvian Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.
Diluviate Dictionary D - intransitive verb To run as a flood.
Diluviums Dictionary D - pleural of Diluvium.
Diluvia Dictionary D - pleural of Diluvium.
Diluvium Dictionary D - noun A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.
Dim Dictionary D - superlative Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
Dimmed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dim.
Dimming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dim.
Dimble Dictionary D - noun A bower; a dingle.
Dime Dictionary D - noun A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
Dimension Dictionary D - noun Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; - usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.
Dimensional Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to dimension.
Dimensioned Dictionary D - adjective Having dimensions.
Dimensionless Dictionary D - adjective Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.
Dimensity Dictionary D - noun Dimension.
Dimensive Dictionary D - adjective Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits.
Dimera Dictionary D - noun plural A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.
Dimeran Dictionary D - noun One of the Dimera.
Dimerous Dictionary D - adjective Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.
Dimeter Dictionary D - adjective Having two poetical measures or meters.
Dimethyl Dictionary D - noun Ethane; - sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.
Dimetric Dictionary D - adjective Same as Tetragonal.
Dimication Dictionary D - noun A fight; contest.
Dimidiate Dictionary D - adjective Divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.
Dimidiated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dimidiate.
Dimidiating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dimidiate.
Dimidiation Dictionary D - noun The act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.
Diminished Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Diminish.
Diminishing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Diminish.
Diminish Dictionary D - verb transitive To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; - opposed to augment or increase.
Diminishable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being diminished or lessened.
Diminisher Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, diminishes anything.
Diminishingly Dictionary D - adverb In a manner to diminish.
Diminishment Dictionary D - noun Diminution.
Diminuendo Dictionary D - adverb In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; - expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.
Diminuent Dictionary D - adjective Lessening.
Diminutal Dictionary D - adjective Indicating or causing diminution.
Diminute Dictionary D - adjective Small; diminished; diminutive.
Diminutely Dictionary D - adverb Diminutively.
Diminution Dictionary D - noun The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; - opposed to augmentation or increase.
Diminutival Dictionary D - adjective Indicating diminution; diminutive.
Diminutive Dictionary D - adjective Below the average size; very small; little.
Diminutively Dictionary D - adverb In a diminutive manner.
Diminutiveness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Dimish Dictionary D - adjective See Dimmish.
Dimission Dictionary D - noun Leave to depart; a dismissing.
Dimissory Dictionary D - adjective Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart.
Dimit Dictionary D - verb transitive To dismiss, let go, or release.
Dimity Dictionary D - noun A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.
Dimly Dictionary D - adverb In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
Dimmish Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dimmy.
Dimmy Dictionary D - adjective Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes.
Dimness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
Dimorph Dictionary D - noun Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.
Dimorphic Dictionary D - adjective Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.
Dimorphism Dictionary D - noun Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
Dimorphous Dictionary D - adjective Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.
Dimple Dictionary D - noun A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
Dimpled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dimple.
Dimpling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dimple.
Dimplement Dictionary D - noun The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.
Dimply Dictionary D - adjective Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool.
Dim-sighted Dictionary D - adjective Having dim sight; lacking perception.
Dimya Dictionary D - noun plural Alt. of Dimyaria.
Dimyaria Dictionary D - noun plural An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.
Dimyarian Dictionary D - adjective Like or pertaining to the Dimya.
Dimyary Dictionary D - adjective & noun Same as Dimyarian.
Din Dictionary D - noun Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Dinned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Din.
Dinning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Din.
Dinaphthyl Dictionary D - noun A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.
Dinar Dictionary D - noun A petty money of accounts of Persia.
Dinarchy Dictionary D - noun See Diarchy.
Dined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dine.
Dining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dine.
Dine Dictionary D - intransitive verb To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Diner Dictionary D - noun One who dines.
Diner-out Dictionary D - noun One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
Dinetical Dictionary D - adjective Revolving on an axis.
Dinged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Ding.
Dung Dictionary D - of Ding.
Dinging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Ding.
Ding Dictionary D - verb transitive To dash; to throw violently.
Dingdong Dictionary D - noun The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
Dingey Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dinghy.
Dingy Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dinghy.
Dinghy Dictionary D - noun A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
Dingily Dictionary D - adverb In a dingy manner.
Dinginess Dictionary D - noun Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
Dingle Dictionary D - noun A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
Dingle-dangle Dictionary D - adverb In a dangling manner.
Dingo Dictionary D - noun A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Dingthrift Dictionary D - noun A spendthrift.
Dinichthys Dictionary D - noun A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.
Dink Dictionary D - adjective Trim; neat.
Dinmont Dictionary D - noun A wether sheep between one and two years old.
Dinner Dictionary D - noun The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
Dinnerless Dictionary D - adjective Having no dinner.
Dinnerly Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to dinner.
Dinoceras Dictionary D - noun A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; - called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dinornis Dictionary D - noun A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
Dinosaur Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dinosaurian.
Dinosaurian Dictionary D - noun One of the Dinosauria.
Dinosauria Dictionary D - noun plural An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
Dinothere Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dinotherium.
Dinotherium Dictionary D - noun A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
Dinoxide Dictionary D - noun Same as Dioxide.
Dinsome Dictionary D - adjective Full of din.
Dint Dictionary D - noun A blow; a stroke.
Dinted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dint.
Dinting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dint.
Dinumeration Dictionary D - noun Enumeration.
Diocesan Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
Dioceses Dictionary D - pleural of Diocese.
Diocese Dictionary D - noun The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Diocesener Dictionary D - noun One who belongs to a diocese.
Diodon Dictionary D - noun A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
Diodont Dictionary D - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.
Dioecia Dictionary D - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
Dioecian Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Dioecious.
Dioecious Dictionary D - adjective Having the sexes in two separate individuals; - applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; - opposed to monoecious.
Dioeciously Dictionary D - adverb In a dioecious manner.
Dioeciousness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being dioecious.
Dioecism Dictionary D - noun The condition of being dioecious.
Diogenes Dictionary D - noun A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
Dioicous Dictionary D - adjective See Dioecious.
Diomedea Dictionary D - noun A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.
Dionaea Dictionary D - noun An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.
Dionysian Dictionary D - adjective Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Diophantine Dictionary D - adjective Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
Diopside Dictionary D - noun A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Dioptase Dictionary D - noun A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
Diopter Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Dioptra.
Dioptra Dictionary D - noun An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.
Dioptre Dictionary D - noun A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
Dioptric Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.
Dioptrical Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope.
Dioptrics Dictionary D - noun The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; - distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.
Dioptry Dictionary D - noun A dioptre.
Diorama Dictionary D - noun A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.
Dioramic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to a diorama.
Diorism Dictionary D - noun Definition; logical direction.
Dioristic Dictionary D - adjective Distinguishing; distinctive; defining.
Diorite Dictionary D - noun An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.
Dioritic Dictionary D - adjective Containing diorite.
Diorthotic Dictionary D - adjective Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.
Dioscorea Dictionary D - noun A genus of plants. See Yam.
Diota Dictionary D - noun A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.
Dioxide Dictionary D - noun An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.
Dioxindol Dictionary D - noun A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; - hence its name.
Dipped Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dip.
Dipt Dictionary D - of Dip.
Dipping Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dip.
Dip Dictionary D - verb transitive To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
Dipaschal Dictionary D - adjective Including two passovers.
Dipchick Dictionary D - noun See Dabchick.
Dipetalous Dictionary D - adjective Having two petals; two-petaled.
Diphenyl Dictionary D - noun A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
Diphtheria Dictionary D - noun A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.
Diphtherial Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diphtheric.
Diphtheric Dictionary D - adjective Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.
Diphtheritic Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.
Diphthong Dictionary D - noun A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; - called a proper diphthong.
Diphthongal Dictionary D - adjective Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
Diphthongalize Dictionary D - verb transitive To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
Diphthongation Dictionary D - noun See Diphthongization.
Diphthongic Dictionary D - adjective Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.
Diphthongization Dictionary D - noun The act of changing into a diphthong.
Diphthongize Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.
Diphycercal Dictionary D - adjective Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.
Diphygenic Dictionary D - adjective Having two modes of embryonic development.
Diphyllous Dictionary D - adjective Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc.
Diphyodont Dictionary D - adjective Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; - opposed to monophyodont.
Diphyozooid Dictionary D - noun One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
Diplanar Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to two planes.
Dipleidoscope Dictionary D - noun An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.
Diploblastic Dictionary D - adjective Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
Diplocardiac Dictionary D - adjective Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.
Diplococci Dictionary D - pleural of Diplococcus.
Diplococcus Dictionary D - noun A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus.
Diploe Dictionary D - noun The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.
Diploetic Dictionary D - adjective Diploic.
Diplogenic Dictionary D - adjective Partaking of the nature of two bodies; producing two substances.
Diploic Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to the diploe.
Diploid Dictionary D - noun A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
Diplomas Dictionary D - pleural of Diploma.
Diploma Dictionary D - noun A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.
Diplomacy Dictionary D - noun The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
Diplomat Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diplomate.
Diplomate Dictionary D - noun A diplomatist.
Diplomatial Dictionary D - adjective Diplomatic.
Diplomatic Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Diplomatical.
Diplomatical Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.
Diplomatically Dictionary D - adverb According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.
Diplomatism Dictionary D - noun Diplomacy.
Diplomatist Dictionary D - noun A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat.
Diplopia Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Diplopy.
Diplopy Dictionary D - noun The act or state of seeing double.
Diplopod Dictionary D - noun One of the Diplopoda.
Diplopoda Dictionary D - noun plural An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha.
Diplostemonous Dictionary D - adjective Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium.
Diplostemony Dictionary D - noun The condition of being diplostemonous.
Dipneumona Dictionary D - noun plural A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs.
Dipnoi Dictionary D - noun plural A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.
Dipodies Dictionary D - pleural of Dipody.
Dipody Dictionary D - noun Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Dipolar Dictionary D - adjective Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.
Dippel's oil Dictionary D - See Bone oil, under Bone.
Dipper Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
Diprismatic Dictionary D - adjective Doubly prismatic.
Dipropargyl Dictionary D - noun A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.
Dipropyl Dictionary D - noun One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
Diprotodon Dictionary D - noun An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; - so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dipsas Dictionary D - noun A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Dipsetic Dictionary D - adjective Tending to produce thirst.
Dipsomania Dictionary D - noun A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
Dipsomaniac Dictionary D - noun One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
Dipsomaniacal Dictionary D - adjective Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
Dipsosis Dictionary D - noun Excessive thirst produced by disease.
Diptera Dictionary D - noun plural An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.
Dipteral Dictionary D - adjective Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipteran Dictionary D - noun An insect of the order Diptera.
Dipterocarpus Dictionary D - noun A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.
Dipterous Dictionary D - adjective Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipterygian Dictionary D - adjective Having two dorsal fins; - said of certain fishes.
Diptote Dictionary D - noun A noun which has only two cases.
Diptych Dictionary D - noun Anything consisting of two leaves.
Dipyre Dictionary D - noun A mineral of the scapolite group; - so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
Dipyrenous Dictionary D - adjective Containing two stones or nutlets.
Dipyridine Dictionary D - noun A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.
Dipyridil Dictionary D - noun A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.
Diradiation Dictionary D - noun The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
Dire Dictionary D - superlative Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Direct Dictionary D - adjective Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Directed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Direct.
Directing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Direct.
Direct-acting Dictionary D - adjective Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
Directer Dictionary D - noun One who directs; a director.
Direction Dictionary D - noun The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
Directive Dictionary D - adjective Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
Directly Dictionary D - adverb In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
Directness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
Director Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
Directorate Dictionary D - noun The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
Directorial Dictionary D - adjective Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.
Directorship Dictionary D - noun The condition or office of a director; directorate.
Directory Dictionary D - adjective Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
Directories Dictionary D - pleural of Directory.
Directress Dictionary D - noun A woman who directs.
Directrixes Dictionary D - pleural of Directrix.
Directrix Dictionary D - noun A directress.
Direful Dictionary D - adjective Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
Direly Dictionary D - adverb In a dire manner.
Dirempt Dictionary D - adjective Divided; separated.
Diremption Dictionary D - noun A tearing apart; violent separation.
Direness Dictionary D - noun Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
Direption Dictionary D - noun The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.
Direptitious Dictionary D - adjective Characterized by direption.
Direptitiously Dictionary D - adverb With plundering violence; by violent injustice.
Dirge Dictionary D - adjective A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Dirgeful Dictionary D - adjective Funereal; moaning.
Dirige Dictionary D - noun A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.
Dirigent Dictionary D - adjective Directing.
Dirigible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.
Diriment Dictionary D - adjective Absolute.
Dirk Dictionary D - noun A kind of dagger or poniard; - formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.
Dirked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dirk.
Dirking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dirk.
Dirkness Dictionary D - noun Darkness.
Dirl Dictionary D - verb intransitive & transitive To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.
Dirt Dictionary D - noun Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
Dirtily Dictionary D - adverb In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.
Dirtiness Dictionary D - noun The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
Dirty Dictionary D - superlative Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
Dirtied Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dirty.
Dirtying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dirty.
Diruption Dictionary D - adjective Disruption.
Dis- Dictionary D -.
Dis Dictionary D - noun The god Pluto.
Disabilities Dictionary D - pleural of Disability.
Disability Dictionary D - noun State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
Disable Dictionary D - adjective Lacking ability; unable.
Disabled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disable.
Disabling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disable.
Disablement Dictionary D - noun Deprivation of ability; incapacity.
Disabused Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disabuse.
Disabusing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disabuse.
Disabuse Dictionary D - verb transitive To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Disaccommodate Dictionary D - verb transitive To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
Disaccommodation Dictionary D - noun A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.
Disaccord Dictionary D - intransitive verb To refuse to assent.
Disaccordant Dictionary D - adjective Not accordant.
Disaccustom Dictionary D - verb transitive To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.
Disacidify Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from acid.
Disacknowledged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disacknowledge.
Disacknowledging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disacknowledge.
Disacknowledge Dictionary D - verb transitive To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.
Disacquaint Dictionary D - verb transitive To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.
Disacquaintance Dictionary D - noun Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
Disacryl Dictionary D - noun A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.
Disadorn Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of ornaments.
Disadvance Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To draw back, or cause to draw back.
Disadvantage Dictionary D - noun Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.
Disadvantageable Dictionary D - adjective Injurious; disadvantageous.
Disadvantageous Dictionary D - adjective Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; - opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.
Disadventure Dictionary D - noun Misfortune; mishap.
Disadventurous Dictionary D - adjective Unprosperous; unfortunate.
Disadvise Dictionary D - verb transitive To advise against; to dissuade from.
Disaffected Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disaffect.
Disaffecting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disaffect.
Disaffect Dictionary D - verb transitive To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.
Disaffection Dictionary D - noun State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
Disaffectionate Dictionary D - adjective Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected.
Disaffirm Dictionary D - verb transitive To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; - said of that which has been asserted.
Disaffirmance Dictionary D - noun The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.
Disaffirmation Dictionary D - noun The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.
Disafforested Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disafforest.
Disafforesting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disafforest.
Disafforest Dictionary D - verb transitive To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
Disaggregate Dictionary D - verb transitive To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.
Disaggregation Dictionary D - noun The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.
Disagreed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disagree.
Disageeing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disagree.
Disagree Dictionary D - intransitive verb To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
Disagreeable Dictionary D - adjective Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Disagreeableness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
Disagreeably Dictionary D - adverb In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
Disagreeance Dictionary D - noun Disagreement.
Disagreement Dictionary D - noun The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
Disagreer Dictionary D - noun One who disagrees.
Disalliege Dictionary D - verb transitive To alienate from allegiance.
Disallowed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disallow.
Disallowing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disallow.
Disallow Dictionary D - verb transitive To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Disallowable Dictionary D - adjective Not allowable; not to be suffered.
Disallowance Dictionary D - noun The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.
Disally Dictionary D - verb transitive To part, as an alliance; to sunder.
Disanchor Dictionary D - verb transitive & intransitive To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
Disangelical Dictionary D - adjective Not angelical.
Disanimated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disanimate.
Disanimating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disanimate.
Disanimate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of life.
Disanimation Dictionary D - noun Privation of life.
Disannex Dictionary D - verb transitive To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.
Disannul Dictionary D - verb transitive To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.
Disannuller Dictionary D - noun One who disannuls.
Disannulment Dictionary D - noun Complete annulment.
Disanoint Dictionary D - verb transitive To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king.
Disapparel Dictionary D - verb transitive To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.
Disappeared Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disappear.
Disappearing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disappear.
Disappear Dictionary D - intransitive verb To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
Disappearance Dictionary D - noun The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.
Disappendency Dictionary D - noun A detachment or separation from a former connection.
Disappendent Dictionary D - adjective Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
Disapointed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disappoint.
Disappointing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disappoint.
Disappoint Dictionary D - verb transitive To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.
Disappointed Dictionary D - adjective Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
Disappointment Dictionary D - noun The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
Disappreciate Dictionary D - verb transitive To undervalue; not to esteem.
Disapprobation Dictionary D - noun The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.
Disapprobatory Dictionary D - adjective Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
Disappropriate Dictionary D - adjective Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
Disappropriation Dictionary D - noun The act of disappropriating.
Disapproval Dictionary D - noun Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
Disapproved Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disapprove.
Disapproving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disapprove.
Disapprove Dictionary D - verb transitive To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.
Disapprover Dictionary D - noun One who disapproves.
Disapprovingly Dictionary D - adverb In a disapproving manner.
Disard Dictionary D - noun See Dizzard.
Disarming Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disarm.
Disarm Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
Disarmament Dictionary D - noun The act of disarming.
Disarmature Dictionary D - noun The act of divesting of armature.
Disarmed Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of arms.
Disarmer Dictionary D - noun One who disarms.
Disarranged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disarrange.
Disarranging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disarrange.
Disarrange Dictionary D - verb transitive To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
Disarrangement Dictionary D - noun The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder.
Disarrayed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disarray.
Disarraying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disarray.
Disarray Dictionary D - verb transitive To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
Disarrayment Dictionary D - noun Disorder.
Disarticulate Dictionary D - verb transitive To sunder; to separate, as joints.
Disarticulator Dictionary D - noun One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.
Disassent Dictionary D - intransitive verb To dissent.
Disassenter Dictionary D - noun One who disassents; a dissenter.
Disassiduity Dictionary D - noun Want of assiduity or care.
Disassimilate Dictionary D - verb transitive To subject to disassimilation.
Disassimilation Dictionary D - noun The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, - a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism.
Disassimilative Dictionary D - adjective Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.
Disassociated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disassociate.
Disassociating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disassociate.
Disassociate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.
Disaster Dictionary D - noun An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.
Disasterly Dictionary D - adverb Disastrously.
Disastrous Dictionary D - adjective Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
Disattire Dictionary D - verb transitive To unrobe; to undress.
Disaugment Dictionary D - verb transitive To diminish.
Disauthorize Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
Disavaunce Dictionary D - verb transitive To retard; to repel; to do damage to.
Disaventure Dictionary D - noun Misfortune.
Disaventurous Dictionary D - adjective Misadventurous; unfortunate.
Disavouch Dictionary D - verb transitive To disavow.
Disavowed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disavow.
Disavowing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disavow.
Disavow Dictionary D - verb transitive To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
Disavowal Dictionary D - noun The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial.
Disavowance Dictionary D - noun Disavowal.
Disavower Dictionary D - noun One who disavows.
Disavowment Dictionary D - noun Disavowal.
Disbanded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disband.
Disbanding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disband.
Disband Dictionary D - verb transitive To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
Disbandment Dictionary D - noun The act of disbanding.
Disbarred Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disbar.
Disbarring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disbar.
Disbar Dictionary D - verb transitive To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Disbark Dictionary D - verb transitive To disembark.
Disbarment Dictionary D - noun Act of disbarring.
Disbase Dictionary D - verb transitive To debase or degrade.
Disbecome Dictionary D - verb transitive To misbecome.
Disbelief Dictionary D - noun The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.
Disbelieved Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disbelieve.
Disbelieving Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disbelieve.
Disbelieve Dictionary D - verb transitive Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Disbeliever Dictionary D - noun One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion.
Disbench Dictionary D - verb transitive To drive from a bench or seat.
Disbend Dictionary D - verb transitive To unbend.
Disbind Dictionary D - verb transitive To unbind; to loosen.
Disblame Dictionary D - verb transitive To clear from blame.
Disbodied Dictionary D - adjective Disembodied.
Disboscation Dictionary D - noun Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest.
Disbowel Dictionary D - verb transitive To disembowel.
Disbranch Dictionary D - verb To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.
Disbud Dictionary D - verb To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.
Disburden Dictionary D - verb transitive To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.
Disburgeon Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud.
Disbursed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disburse.
Disbursing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disburse.
Disburse Dictionary D - verb transitive To pay out; to expend; - usually from a public fund or treasury.
Disbursement Dictionary D - noun The act of disbursing or paying out.
Disburser Dictionary D - noun One who disburses money.
Disburthened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disburthen.
Disburthening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disburthen.
Disburthen Dictionary D - verb transitive To disburden; to relieve of a load.
Disc Dictionary D - noun A flat round plate.
Discage Dictionary D - verb transitive To uncage.
Discal Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.
Discalceate Dictionary D - verb transitive To pull off shoes or sandals from.
Discalceated Dictionary D - adjective Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.
Discalced Dictionary D - adjective Unshod; barefooted; - in distinction from calced.
Discalceation Dictionary D - noun The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals.
Discamp Dictionary D - verb transitive To drive from a camp.
Discandy Dictionary D - intransitive verb To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
Discant Dictionary D - noun See Descant, n.
Discapacitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate.
Discarded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discard.
Discarding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discard.
Discard Dictionary D - verb transitive To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
Discardure Dictionary D - noun Rejection; dismissal.
Discarnate Dictionary D - adjective Stripped of flesh.
Discase Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip; to undress.
Discede Dictionary D - intransitive verb To yield or give up; to depart.
Discept Dictionary D - intransitive verb To debate; to discuss.
Disceptation Dictionary D - noun Controversy; disputation; discussion.
Disceptator Dictionary D - noun One who arbitrates or decides.
Discerned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discern.
Discerning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discern.
Discern Dictionary D - verb transitive To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
Discernance Dictionary D - noun Discernment.
Discerner Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.
Discernible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.
Discernibleness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being discernible.
Discernibly Dictionary D - adverb In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.
Discerningly Dictionary D - adverb In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.
Discernment Dictionary D - noun The act of discerning.
Discerp Dictionary D - verb transitive To tear in pieces; to rend.
Discerpibility Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Discerptibility.
Discerptibility Dictionary D - noun Capability or liableness to be discerped.
Discerpible Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Discerptible.
Discerptible Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being discerped.
Discerption Dictionary D - noun The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.
Discerptive Dictionary D - adjective Tending to separate or disunite parts.
Discession Dictionary D - noun Departure.
Discharged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discharge.
Discharging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discharge.
Discharge Dictionary D - verb transitive To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
Discharger Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
Dischevele Dictionary D - adjective Disheveled.
Dischurch Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.
Discide Dictionary D - verb transitive To divide; to cleave in two.
Disciferous Dictionary D - adjective Bearing disks.
Discifloral Dictionary D - adjective Alt. of Disciflorous.
Disciflorous Dictionary D - adjective Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.
Disciform Dictionary D - adjective Discoid.
Discina Dictionary D - noun A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.
Discinct Dictionary D - adjective Ungirded; loosely dressed.
Discind Dictionary D - verb transitive To part; to divide.
Disciple Dictionary D - noun One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
Discipled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disciple.
Discipling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disciple.
Discipleship Dictionary D - noun The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Discipless Dictionary D - noun A female disciple.
Disciplinable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.
Disciplinableness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being improvable by discipline.
Disciplinal Dictionary D - adjective Relating to discipline.
Disciplinant Dictionary D - noun A flagellant. See Flagellant.
Disciplinarian Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to discipline.
Disciplinary Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.
Discipline Dictionary D - noun The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Disciplined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discipline.
Disciplining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discipline.
Discipliner Dictionary D - noun One who disciplines.
Disclaimed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disclaim.
Disclaiming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disclaim.
Disclaim Dictionary D - verb transitive To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
Disclaimer Dictionary D - noun One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
Disclamation Dictionary D - noun A disavowing or disowning.
Disclame Dictionary D - verb transitive To disclaim; to expel.
Disclaunder Dictionary D - verb transitive To injure one's good name; to slander.
Discloak Dictionary D - verb transitive To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.
Disclosed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disclose.
Disclosing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disclose.
Disclose Dictionary D - verb transitive To unclose; to open; - applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
Discloser Dictionary D - noun One who discloses.
Disclosure Dictionary D - verb transitive The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.
Discloud Dictionary D - verb transitive To clear from clouds.
Disclout Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of a clout.
Disclusion Dictionary D - noun A shutting off; exclusion.
Discoast Dictionary D - intransitive verb To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.
Discoblastic Dictionary D - adjective Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.
Discoboli Dictionary D - pleural of Discobolus.
Discobolus Dictionary D - noun A thrower of the discus.
Discodactyl Dictionary D - noun One of the tree frogs.
Discodactylia Dictionary D - noun plural A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
Discodactylous Dictionary D - adjective Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.
Discoherent Dictionary D - adjective Incoherent.
Discoid Dictionary D - adjective Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.
Discoidal Dictionary D - adjective Disk-shaped; discoid.
Discolith Dictionary D - noun One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.
Discolored Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discolor.
Discoloring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discolor.
Discolor Dictionary D - verb transitive To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.
Discolorate Dictionary D - verb transitive To discolor.
Discoloration Dictionary D - noun The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.
Discomfited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discomfit.
Discomfiting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discomfit.
Discomfit Dictionary D - verb transitive To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
Discomfiture Dictionary D - verb transitive The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.
Discomforted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discomfort.
Discomforting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discomfort.
Discomfort Dictionary D - verb transitive To discourage; to deject.
Discomfortable Dictionary D - adjective Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.
Discommend Dictionary D - verb transitive To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.
Discommendable Dictionary D - adjective Deserving, disapprobation or blame.
Discommendation Dictionary D - noun Blame; censure; reproach.
Discommender Dictionary D - noun One who discommends; a dispraiser.
Discommission Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of a commission or trust.
Discommodate Dictionary D - verb transitive To discommode.
Discommoded Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discommode.
Discommoding Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discommode.
Discommode Dictionary D - verb transitive To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.
Discommodious Dictionary D - adjective Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious.
Discommodity Dictionary D - noun Disadvantage; inconvenience.
Discommon Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of the right of common.
Discommunity Dictionary D - noun A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.
Discompany Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from company; to dissociate.
Discomplexion Dictionary D - verb transitive To change the complexion or hue of.
Discompliance Dictionary D - noun Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.
Discomposed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discompose.
Discomposing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discompose.
Discompose Dictionary D - verb transitive To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
Discomposition Dictionary D - noun Inconsistency; discordance.
Discomposure Dictionary D - noun The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
Discompt Dictionary D - verb transitive To discount. See Discount.
Disconcerted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disconcert.
Disconcerting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disconcert.
Disconcert Dictionary D - verb transitive To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
Disconcertion Dictionary D - noun The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation.
Disconducive Dictionary D - adjective Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous.
Disconformable Dictionary D - adjective Not conformable.
Disconformity Dictionary D - noun Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement.
Discongruity Dictionary D - noun Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness.
Disconnected Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disconnect.
Disconnecting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disconnect.
Disconnect Dictionary D - verb transitive To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.
Disconnection Dictionary D - noun The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.
Disconsecrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of consecration or sacredness.
Discosent Dictionary D - intransitive verb To differ; to disagree; to dissent.
Disconsolacy Dictionary D - noun The state of being disconsolate.
Disconsolate Dictionary D - noun Disconsolateness.
Disconsolated Dictionary D - adjective Disconsolate.
Disconsolation Dictionary D - noun Dejection; grief.
Discontent Dictionary D - adjective Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
Discontented Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discontent.
Discontenting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discontent.
Discontentation Dictionary D - noun Discontent.
Discontentful Dictionary D - adjective Full of discontent.
Discontentive Dictionary D - adjective Relating or tending to discontent.
Discontentment Dictionary D - noun The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude.
Discontinuable Dictionary D - adjective Admitting of being discontinued.
Discontinuance Dictionary D - noun The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.
Discontinuation Dictionary D - noun Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Discontinued Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discontinue.
Discontinuing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discontinue.
Discontinue Dictionary D - verb transitive To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Discontinuee Dictionary D - noun One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Discontinuer Dictionary D - noun One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
Discontinuity Dictionary D - noun Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
Discontinuor Dictionary D - noun One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Discontinuous Dictionary D - adjective Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
Disconvenience Dictionary D - noun Unsuitableness; incongruity.
Disconvenient Dictionary D - adjective Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
Discophora Dictionary D - noun plural A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.
Discord Dictionary D - intransitive verb Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; - applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
Discordable Dictionary D - adjective That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.
Discordance Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Discordancy.
Discordancy Dictionary D - noun State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
Discordant Dictionary D - noun Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
Discordful Dictionary D - adjective Full of discord; contentious.
Discordous Dictionary D - adjective Full of discord.
Discorporate Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
Discorrespondent Dictionary D - adjective Incongruous.
Discost Dictionary D - intransitive verb Same as Discoast.
Discounsel Dictionary D - verb transitive To dissuade.
Discounted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discount.
Discounting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discount.
Discount Dictionary D - verb To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discountable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
Discountenanced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discountenance.
Discountenancing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discountenance.
Discountenance Dictionary D - verb transitive To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Discountenancer Dictionary D - noun One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
Discounter Dictionary D - noun One who discounts; a discount broker.
Discouraged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discourage.
Discouraging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discourage.
Discourage Dictionary D - verb transitive To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; - the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
Discourageable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
Discouragement Dictionary D - noun The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
Discourager Dictionary D - noun One who discourages.
Discoure Dictionary D - verb transitive To discover.
Discourse Dictionary D - noun The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Discoursed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discourse.
Discoursing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discourse.
Discourser Dictionary D - noun One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Discoursive Dictionary D - adjective Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Discourteous Dictionary D - adjective Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Discourtesy Dictionary D - noun Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Discourtship Dictionary D - noun Want of courtesy.
Discous Dictionary D - adjective Disklike; discoid.
Discovenant Dictionary D - verb transitive To dissolve covenant with.
Discovered Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discover.
Discovering Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discover.
Discover Dictionary D - verb transitive To uncover.
Discoverability Dictionary D - noun The quality of being discoverable.
Discoverable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
Discoverer Dictionary D - noun One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
Discoverment Dictionary D - noun Discovery.
Discovert Dictionary D - adjective Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; - applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Discoverture Dictionary D - noun Discovery.
Discoveries Dictionary D - pleural of Discovery.
Discovery Dictionary D - noun The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
Discradle Dictionary D - verb transitive To take from a cradle.
Discredit Dictionary D - noun The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.
Discredited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discredit.
Discrediting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discredit.
Discreditable Dictionary D - adjective Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable.
Discreditor Dictionary D - noun One who discredits.
Discreet Dictionary D - superlative Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.
-ances Dictionary D - pleural of Discrepancy.
-ancies Dictionary D - pleural of Discrepancy.
Discrepance Dictionary D - noun Alt. of Discrepancy.
Discrepancy Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.
Discrepant Dictionary D - adjective Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different.
Discrete Dictionary D - adjective Separate; distinct; disjunct.
Discretely Dictionary D - adverb Separately; disjunctively.
Discretion Dictionary D - noun Disjunction; separation.
Discretional Dictionary D - Alt. of Discretionary.
Discretionary Dictionary D - Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.
Discretionally Dictionary D - adverb Alt. of Discretionarily.
Discretionarily Dictionary D - adverb At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.
Discretive Dictionary D - adjective Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
Discretively Dictionary D - adverb In a discretive manner.
Discriminable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being discriminated.
Discriminal Dictionary D - adjective In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.
Discriminant Dictionary D - noun The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.
Discriminate Dictionary D - adjective Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
Discriminated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discriminate.
Discriminating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discriminate.
Discriminately Dictionary D - adverb In a discriminating manner; distinctly.
Discriminateness Dictionary D - noun The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
Discrimination Dictionary D - noun The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
Discriminative Dictionary D - adjective Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.
Discriminatively Dictionary D - adverb With discrimination or distinction.
Discriminator Dictionary D - noun One who discriminates.
Discriminatory Dictionary D - adjective Discriminative.
Discriminous Dictionary D - adjective Hazardous; dangerous.
Discrive Dictionary D - verb transitive To describe.
Discrowned Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discrown.
Discrowning Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discrown.
Discrown Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of a crown.
Discruciated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discruciate.
Discruciating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discruciate.
Discruciate Dictionary D - verb transitive To torture; to excruciate.
Discubitory Dictionary D - adjective Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.
Disculpated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disculpate.
Disculpating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disculpate.
Disculpate Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
Disculpation Dictionary D - noun Exculpation.
Disculpatory Dictionary D - adjective Tending to exculpate; exculpatory.
Discumbency Dictionary D - noun The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.
Discumber Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
Discure Dictionary D - verb transitive To discover; to reveal; to discoure.
Discurrent Dictionary D - adjective Not current or free to circulate; not in use.
Discursion Dictionary D - noun The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Discursist Dictionary D - noun A discourser.
Discursive Dictionary D - adjective Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Discursory Dictionary D - adjective Argumentative; discursive; reasoning.
Discursus Dictionary D - noun Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
Discuses Dictionary D - pleural of Discus.
Disci Dictionary D - pleural of Discus.
Discus Dictionary D - noun A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
Discussed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Discuss.
Discussing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Discuss.
Discuss Dictionary D - verb transitive To break to pieces; to shatter.
Discusser Dictionary D - noun One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.
Discussion Dictionary D - noun The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
Discussional Dictionary D - adjective Pertaining to discussion.
Discussive Dictionary D - adjective Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.
Discutient Dictionary D - adjective Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application.
Disdain Dictionary D - verb transitive A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
Disdained Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disdain.
Disdaining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disdain.
Disdainful Dictionary D - adjective Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Disdainishly Dictionary D - adverb Disdainfully.
Disdainous Dictionary D - adjective Disdainful.
Disdainously Dictionary D - adverb Disdainfully.
Disdeify Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
Disdeign Dictionary D - verb transitive To disdain.
Disdiaclast Dictionary D - noun One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
Disdiapason Dictionary D - noun An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; - called also bisdiapason.
Disease Dictionary D - noun Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Diseased Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disease.
Diseasing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disease.
Diseasedness Dictionary D - noun The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.
Diseaseful Dictionary D - adjective Causing uneasiness.
Diseasefulness Dictionary D - noun The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial.
Diseasement Dictionary D - noun Uneasiness; inconvenience.
Disedge Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
Disedify Dictionary D - verb transitive To fail of edifying; to injure.
Diselder Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.
Diselenide Dictionary D - noun A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.
Disembarked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disembark.
Disembarking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disembark.
Disembark Dictionary D - verb transitive To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Disembarkation Dictionary D - noun The act of disembarking.
Disembarkment Dictionary D - noun Disembarkation.
Disembarrassed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disembarrass.
Disembarrassing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disembarrass.
Disembarrass Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.
Disembarrassment Dictionary D - noun Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
Disembayed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disembay.
Disembaying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disembay.
Disembay Dictionary D - verb transitive To clear from a bay.
Disembellish Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
Disembitter Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from.
Disembodied Dictionary D - adjective Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
Disembodiment Dictionary D - noun The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
Disembodying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disembody.
Disembody Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
Disembogued Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disembogue.
Disemboguing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disembogue.
Disembogue Dictionary D - verb transitive To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.
Disemboguement Dictionary D - noun The act of disemboguing; discharge.
Disembossom Dictionary D - verb transitive To separate from the bosom.
Disembowel Dictionary D - verb transitive To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
Disembowelment Dictionary D - noun The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.
Disembowered Dictionary D - adjective Deprived of, or removed from, a bower.
Disembrangle Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from wrangling or litigation.
Disembroiled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disembroil.
Disembroiling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disembroil.
Disembroil Dictionary D - verb transitive To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
Disemploy Dictionary D - verb transitive To throw out of employment.
Disemployment Dictionary D - noun The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment.
Disempower Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of power; to divest of strength.
Disenable Dictionary D - verb transitive To disable; to disqualify.
Disenamor Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from the captivity of love.
Disenchained Dictionary D - adjective Freed from restraint; unrestrained.
Disenchanted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disenchant.
Disenchanting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disenchant.
Disenchant Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.
Disenchanter Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, disenchants.
Disenchantment Dictionary D - noun The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.
Disencharm Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
Disenclose Dictionary D - verb transitive See Disinclose.
Disencouragement Dictionary D - noun Discouragement.
Disencrese Dictionary D - intransitive verb To decrease.
Disencumbered Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disencumber.
Disencumbering Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disencumber.
Disencumber Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
Disencumbrance Dictionary D - noun Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome.
Disendow Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of an endowment, as a church.
Disendowment Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
Disenfranchise Dictionary D - verb transitive To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.
Disengaged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disengage.
Disengaging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disengage.
Disengage Dictionary D - verb transitive To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.
Disengagement Dictionary D - noun The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
Disennoble Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade.
Disenrolled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disenroll.
Disenrolling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disenroll.
Disenroll Dictionary D - intransitive verb To erase from a roll or list.
Disensanity Dictionary D - noun Insanity; folly.
Disenshrouded Dictionary D - adjective Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.
Disenslave Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall.
Disentail Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from entailment.
Disentangled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disentangle.
Disentangling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disentangle.
Disentangle Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
Disentanglement Dictionary D - noun The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties.
Disenter Dictionary D - verb transitive See Disinter.
Disenthrall Dictionary D - verb transitive To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.
Disenthrallment Dictionary D - noun Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment.
Disenthrone Dictionary D - verb transitive To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
Disentitle Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of title or claim.
Disentomb Dictionary D - verb transitive To take out from a tomb; a disinter.
Disentrail Dictionary D - verb transitive To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails.
Disentrance Dictionary D - verb transitive To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
Disentwine Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from being entwined or twisted.
Disepalous Dictionary D - adjective Having two sepals; two-sepaled.
Disert Dictionary D - adjective Eloquent.
Disertitude Dictionary D - noun Eloquence.
Diserty Dictionary D - adverb Expressly; clearly; eloquently.
Disespouse Dictionary D - verb transitive To release from espousal or plighted faith.
Disestablish Dictionary D - verb transitive To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state.
Disestablishment Dictionary D - noun The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.
Disesteem Dictionary D - noun Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.
Disesteemed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disesteem.
Disesteeming Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disesteem.
Disesteemer Dictionary D - noun One who disesteems.
Disestimation Dictionary D - noun Disesteem.
Disexercise Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained.
Disfame Dictionary D - noun Disrepute.
Disfancy Dictionary D - verb transitive To dislike.
Disfashion Dictionary D - verb transitive To disfigure.
Disfavor Dictionary D - noun Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
Disfavored Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disfavor.
Disfavoring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disfavor.
Disfavorable Dictionary D - adjective Unfavorable.
Disfavorably Dictionary D - adverb Unpropitiously.
Disfavorer Dictionary D - noun One who disfavors.
Disfeature Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
Disfellowship Dictionary D - verb transitive To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.
Disfiguration Dictionary D - noun The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.
Disfigured Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disfigure.
Disfiguring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disfigure.
Disfigure Dictionary D - verb transitive To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Disfigurement Dictionary D - noun Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.
Disfigurer Dictionary D - noun One who disfigures.
Disflesh Dictionary D - verb transitive To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
Disforest Dictionary D - verb transitive To disafforest.
Disforestation Dictionary D - noun The act of clearing land of forests.
Disformity Dictionary D - noun Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form.
Disfranchised Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disfranchise.
Disfranchising Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disfranchise.
Disfranchise Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
Disfranchisement Dictionary D - noun The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.
Disfriar Dictionary D - verb transitive To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.
Disfrock Dictionary D - verb transitive To unfrock.
Disfurnished Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disfurnish.
Disfurnishing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disfurnish.
Disfurnish Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.
Disfurnishment Dictionary D - noun The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
Disfurniture Dictionary D - noun The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
Disgage Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.
Disgallant Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of gallantry.
Disgarland Dictionary D - verb transitive To strip of a garland.
Disgarnish Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.
Disgarrison Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of a garrison.
Disgaveled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disgavel.
Disgaveling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disgavel.
Disgavel Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; - said of lands.
Disgest Dictionary D - verb transitive To digest.
Disgestion Dictionary D - noun Digestion.
Disglorified Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disglorify.
Disglorifying Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disglorify.
Disglorify Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity.
Disglory Dictionary D - noun Dishonor.
Disgorged Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disgorge.
Disgorging Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disgorge.
Disgorge Dictionary D - verb transitive To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.
Disgorgement Dictionary D - noun The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.
Disgospel Dictionary D - intransitive verb To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel.
Disgrace Dictionary D - noun The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
Disgraced Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disgrace.
Disgracing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disgrace.
Disgraceful Dictionary D - adjective Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.
Disgracer Dictionary D - noun One who disgraces.
Disgracious Dictionary D - adjective Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable.
Disgracive Dictionary D - adjective Disgracing.
Disgradation Dictionary D - noun Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.
Disgrade Dictionary D - verb transitive To degrade.
Disgraduate Dictionary D - verb transitive To degrade; to reduce in rank.
Disgregate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disperse; to scatter; - opposite of congregate.
Disgregation Dictionary D - noun The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.
Disgruntle Dictionary D - verb transitive To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger.
Disguised Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disguise.
Disguising Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disguise.
Disguise Dictionary D - verb transitive To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
Disguisedfy Dictionary D - adverb In disguise.
Disguisedness Dictionary D - noun The state of being disguised.
Disguisement Dictionary D - noun Disguise.
Disguiser Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, disguises.
Disgusted Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disgust.
Disgusting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disgust.
Disgust Dictionary D - verb transitive To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; - often with at, with, or by.
Disgustful Dictionary D - adjective Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.
Disgustfulness Dictionary D - noun The state of being disgustful.
Dish Dictionary D - noun A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
Dished Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dish.
Dishing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dish.
Dishabilitate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disqualify.
Dishabille Dictionary D - noun An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
Dishabit Dictionary D - verb transitive To dislodge.
Dishabited Dictionary D - particle adjective Rendered uninhabited.
Dishabituate Dictionary D - verb transitive To render unaccustomed.
Dishable Dictionary D - verb transitive To disable.
Dishallow Dictionary D - verb transitive To make unholy; to profane.
Disharmonious Dictionary D - adjective Unharmonious; discordant.
Disharmony Dictionary D - noun Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.
Dishaunt Dictionary D - verb transitive To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt.
Dishcloth Dictionary D - noun A cloth used for washing dishes.
Dishclout Dictionary D - noun A dishcloth.
Disheart Dictionary D - verb transitive To dishearten.
Disheartened Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dishearten.
Disheartening Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dishearten.
Dishearten Dictionary D - verb transitive To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Disheartenment Dictionary D - noun Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
Disheir Dictionary D - verb transitive To disinherit.
Dishelm Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of the helmet.
Disherison Dictionary D - noun The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion.
Disherited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disherit.
Disheriting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disherit.
Disherit Dictionary D - verb transitive To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance.
Disheritance Dictionary D - noun The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance.
Disheritor Dictionary D - noun One who puts another out of his inheritance.
Disheveled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dishevel.
Dishevelled Dictionary D - of Dishevel.
Disheveling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dishevel.
Dishevelling Dictionary D - of Dishevel.
Dishevel Dictionary D - verb transitive To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; - used chiefly in the passive participle.
Dishevele Dictionary D - past particle & adjective Disheveled.
Dishfuls Dictionary D - pleural of Dishful.
Dishful Dictionary D - noun As much as a dish holds when full.
Dishonest Dictionary D - adjective Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
Dishonestly Dictionary D - adverb In a dishonest manner.
Dishonesty Dictionary D - noun Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
Dishonor Dictionary D - noun Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
Dishonored Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dishonor.
Dishonoring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dishonor.
Dishonorable Dictionary D - adjective Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
Dishonorary Dictionary D - adjective Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.
Dishonorer Dictionary D - noun One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.
Dishorn Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.
Dishorse Dictionary D - verb transitive To dismount.
Dishouse Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of house or home.
Dishumor Dictionary D - noun Ill humor.
Dishwasher Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, washes dishes.
Dishwater Dictionary D - noun Water in which dishes have been washed.
Disillusion Dictionary D - noun The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Disillusionize Dictionary D - verb transitive To disenchant; to free from illusion.
Disillusionment Dictionary D - noun The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Disimbitter Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from bitterness.
Disimpark Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park.
Disimpassioned Dictionary D - adjective Free from warmth of passion or feeling.
Disimprove Dictionary D - verb transitive To make worse; - the opposite of improve.
Disimprovement Dictionary D - noun Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.
Disincarcerate Dictionary D - verb transitive To liberate from prison.
Disinclination Dictionary D - noun The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Disinclined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disincline.
Disinclining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disincline.
Disincline Dictionary D - verb transitive To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.
Disinclose Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from being inclosed.
Disincorporated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disincorporate.
Disincorporating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disincorporate.
Disincorporate Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.
Disincorporation Dictionary D - noun Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
Disinfected Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disinfect.
Disinfecting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disinfect.
Disinfect Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
Disinfectant Dictionary D - noun That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.
Disinfection Dictionary D - noun The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
Disinfector Dictionary D - noun One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.
Disinflame Dictionary D - verb transitive To divest of flame or ardor.
Disingenuity Dictionary D - noun Disingenuousness.
Disingenuous Dictionary D - adjective Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Disinhabited Dictionary D - adjective Uninhabited.
Disinherison Dictionary D - verb transitive Same as Disherison.
Disinherited Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disinherit.
Disinheriting Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disinherit.
Disinherit Dictionary D - verb transitive To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent.
Disinheritance Dictionary D - noun The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
Disinhume Dictionary D - verb transitive To disinter.
Disinsure Dictionary D - verb transitive To render insecure; to put in danger.
Disintegrable Dictionary D - adjective Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder.
Disintegrated Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disintegrate.
Disintegrating Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disintegrate.
Disintegrate Dictionary D - verb transitive To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
Disintegration Dictionary D - noun The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
Disintegrator Dictionary D - noun A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.
Disinterred Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disinter.
Disinterring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disinter.
Disinter Dictionary D - verb transitive To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
Disinteress Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage.
Disinteressment Dictionary D - noun Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness.
Disinterest Dictionary D - particle adjective Disinterested.
Disinterested Dictionary D - adjective Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge.
Disinterestedly Dictionary D - adverb In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
Disinterestedness Dictionary D - noun The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.
Disinteresting Dictionary D - adjective Uninteresting.
Disinterment Dictionary D - noun The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
Disinthralled Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disinthrall.
Disinthralling Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disinthrall.
Disinthrall Dictionary D - verb transitive To free from thralldom; to disenthrall.
Disinthrallment Dictionary D - noun A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment.
Disintricate Dictionary D - verb transitive To disentangle.
Disinured Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disinure.
Disinuring Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disinure.
Disinure Dictionary D - verb transitive To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.
Disinvestiture Dictionary D - noun The act of depriving of investiture.
Disinvigorate Dictionary D - verb transitive To enervate; to weaken.
Disinvolve Dictionary D - verb transitive To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
Disjection Dictionary D - noun Destruction; dispersion.
Disjoined Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disjoin.
Disjoining Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disjoin.
Disjoin Dictionary D - verb transitive To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
Disjoint Dictionary D - adjective Disjointed; unconnected; - opposed to conjoint.
Disjointed Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Disjoint.
Disjointing Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Disjoint.
Disjointly Dictionary D - adverb In a disjointed state.
Disjudication Dictionary D - noun Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication.
Disjunct Dictionary D - adjective Disjoined; separated.
Disjuncttion Dictionary D - noun The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.
Disjunctive Dictionary D - adjective Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
Disjunctively Dictionary D - adverb In a disjunctive manner; separately.
Disjuncture Dictionary D - noun The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation.
Disk Dictionary D - noun A discus; a quoit.
Diskindness Dictionary D - noun Unkindness; disservice.
Diskless Dictionary D - adjective Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
Dislade Dictionary D - verb transitive To unlade.
Disleal Dictionary D - adjective Disloyal; perfidious.
Disleave Dictionary D - verb transitive To deprive of leaves.
Disliked Dictionary D - imperative & past particle of Dislike.
Disliking Dictionary D - past particle & verb noun of Dislike.
Dislike Dictionary D - verb transitive To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
Dislikeful Dictionary D - adjective Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable.
Dislikelihood Dictionary D - noun The want of likelihood; improbability.
Disliken Dictionary D - verb transitive To make unlike; to disguise.
Dislikeness Dictionary D - noun Unlikeness.
Disliker Dictionary D - noun One who dislikes or disrelishes.
Dislimb Dictionary D - verb transitive To tear limb from limb; to dismember.
Dislimn Dictionary D - verb transitive To efface, as a picture.
Dislink Dictionary D -