| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| disablement | noun | Deprivation of ability; incapacity. |
| disaccustom | verb t. | To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. |
| disacquaint | verb t. | To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. |
| disaffected | imp. & past participle | of Disaffect, Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. |
| disafforest | verb t. | To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. |
| disallowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Disallow |
| disanimated | imp. & past participle | of Disanimate |
| disannuller | noun | One who disannuls. |
| disappeared | imp. & past participle | of Disappear |
| disapointed | imp. & past participle | of Disappoint |
| disapproval | noun | Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment. |
| disapproved | imp. & past participle | of Disapprove |
| disapprover | noun | One who disapproves. |
| disarmament | noun | The act of disarming. |
| disarmature | noun | The act of divesting of armature. |
| disarranged | imp. & past participle | of Disarrange |
| disarraying | present participle & vb. noun | of Disarray |
| disassenter | noun | One who disassents; a dissenter. |
| disaventure | noun | Misfortune. |
| disavowance | noun | Disavowal. |
| disavowment | noun | Disavowal. |
| disbandment | noun | The act of disbanding. |
| disbelieved | imp. & past participle | of Disbelieve |
| disbeliever | noun | One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. |
| discalceate | verb t. | To pull off shoes or sandals from. |
| disceptator | noun | One who arbitrates or decides. |
| discernance | noun | Discernment. |
| discernible | 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. |
| discernibly | adverb | In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly. |
| discernment | noun | The act of discerning., The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. |
| discerpible | adjective | Alt. of Discerptible |
| discerption | noun | The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts. |
| discerptive | adjective | Tending to separate or disunite parts. |
| discharging | present participle & vb. noun | of Discharge |
| disciferous | adjective | Bearing disks. |
| discifloral | adjective | Alt. of Disciflorous |
| disciplinal | adjective | Relating to discipline. |
| disciplined | imp. & past participle | of Discipline |
| discipliner | noun | One who disciplines. |
| disclaiming | present participle & vb. noun | of Disclaim |
| disclaunder | verb t. | To injure one’s good name; to slander. |
| discodactyl | noun | One of the tree frogs. |
| discoherent | adjective | Incoherent. |
| discoloring | present participle & vb. noun | of Discolor |
| discolorate | verb t. | To discolor. |
| discomfited | imp. & past participle | of Discomfit |
| discommoded | imp. & past participle | of Discommode |
| discomposed | imp. & past participle | of Discompose, Disordered; disturbed; disquieted. |
| discontinue | verb t. | 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., To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off., To be separated or severed; to part. |
| discordable | adjective | That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. |
| discordance | noun | Alt. of Discordancy |
| discordancy | noun | State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. |
| discounting | present participle & vb. noun | of Discount |
| discouraged | imp. & past participle | of Discourage |
| discourager | noun | One who discourages. |
| discoursing | present participle & vb. noun | of Discourse |
| discoursive | adjective | Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive., Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory., Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man., The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. |
| discourtesy | noun | Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. |
| discovenant | verb t. | To dissolve covenant with. |
| discovering | present participle & vb. noun | of Discover |
| discoveries | plural | of Discovery |
| discredited | imp. & past participle | of Discredit |
| discreditor | noun | One who discredits. |
| discrepance | noun | Alt. of Discrepancy |
| discrepancy | noun | The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. |
| discriminal | adjective | In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm. |
| discrowning | present participle & vb. noun | of Discrown |
| discruciate | verb t. | To torture; to excruciate. |
| discubitory | adjective | Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. |
| disculpated | imp. & past participle | of Disculpate |
| discumbency | noun | The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. |
| disdiaclast | noun | One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers. |
| disdiapason | noun | An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; — called also bisdiapason. |
| diseasement | noun | Uneasiness; inconvenience. |
| disembarked | imp. & past participle | of Disembark |
| disembaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Disembay |
| disembitter | verb t. | To free from |
| disembodied | adjective | Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal., of Disembody |
| disembogued | imp. & past participle | of Disembogue |
| disembossom | verb t. | To separate from the bosom. |
| disencumber | verb t. | To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. |
| disengaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Disengage, Loosing; setting free; detaching. |
| disenrolled | imp. & past participle | of Disenroll |
| disensanity | noun | Insanity; folly. |
| disentangle | verb t. | 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., To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate. |
| disenthrall | verb t. | To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. |
| disenthrone | verb t. | To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority. |
| disentrance | verb t. | To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. |
| disertitude | noun | Eloquence. |
| disesteemed | imp. & past participle | of Disesteem |
| disesteemer | noun | One who disesteems. |
| disexercise | verb t. | To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. |
| disfavoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Disfavor |
| disfiguring | present participle & vb. noun | of Disfigure |
| disgarrison | verb t. | To deprive of a garrison. |
| disgaveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Disgavel |
| disgraceful | adjective | Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. |
| disgracious | adjective | Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. |
| disgraduate | verb t. | To degrade; to reduce in rank. |
| disguisedfy | adverb | In disguise. |
| disheriting | present participle & vb. noun | of Disherit |
| dishevelled | of Dishevel | |
| disheveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Dishevel |
| dishonestly | adverb | In a dishonest manner. |
| dishonoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Dishonor |
| dishonorary | adjective | Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. |
| disillusion | noun | The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom., To free from an illusion; to disillusionize. |
| disimbitter | verb t. | To free from bitterness. |
| disinclined | imp. & past participle | of Disincline |
| disinfected | imp. & past participle | of Disinfect |
| disinfector | noun | One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants. |
| disinterred | imp. & past participle | of Disinter |
| disinteress | verb t. | To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. |
| disinterest | p. adjective | Disinterested., What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage., Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness., To divest of interest or interested motives. |
| disinthrall | verb t. | To free from thralldom; to disenthrall. |
| disjointing | present participle & vb. noun | of Disjoint |
| disjunctive | adjective | Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining., Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords., A disjunctive conjunction., A disjunctive proposition. |
| disjuncture | noun | The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. |
| diskindness | noun | Unkindness; disservice. |
| dislikeness | noun | Unlikeness. |
| dislocating | present participle & vb. noun | of Dislocate |
| dislocation | noun | The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced., The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations., The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced. |
| dislodgment | noun | The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged. |
| dismantling | present participle & vb. noun | of Dismantle |
| dismastment | noun | The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. |
| dismembered | imp. & past participle | of Dismember |
| dismortaged | imp. & past participle | of Dismortgage |
| dismortgage | verb t. | To redeem from mortgage. |
| dismounting | present participle & vb. noun | of Dismount |
| disobedient | adjective | Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; — applied to persons and acts., Not yielding. |
| disobeisant | adjective | Disobedient. |
| disobliging | present participle & vb. noun | of Disoblige, Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act., Displeasing; offensive. |
| disoccident | verb t. | To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. |
| disoppilate | verb t. | To open. |
| disordeined | adjective | Inordinate; irregular; vicious. |
| disordering | present participle & vb. noun | of Disorder |
| disordinate | adjective | Inordinate; disorderly. |
| disorganize | verb t. | To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. |
| disparaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Disparage |
| disparition | noun | Act of disappearing; disappearance. |
| disparities | plural | of Disparity |
| dispatching | present participle & vb. noun | of Dispatch |
| dispatchful | adjective | Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. |
| dispensable | adjective | Capable of being dispensed or administered., Capable of being dispensed with. |
| dispensator | noun | A distributer; a dispenser. |
| dispeopling | present participle & vb. noun | of Dispeople |
| disspermous | adjective | Containing only two seeds; two-seeded. |
| dispiriting | present participle & vb. noun | of Dispirit |
| displacency | noun | Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. |
| displanting | present participle & vb. noun | of Displant |
| displeasant | adjective | Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. |
| displeasing | present participle & vb. noun | of Displease, Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable. |
| displeasure | noun | The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation., That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury., State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor., To displease. |
| displicence | noun | Alt. of Displicency |
| displicency | noun | Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent. |
| disportment | noun | Act of disporting; diversion; play. |
| disposement | noun | Disposal. |
| disposingly | adverb | In a manner to dispose. |
| disposition | noun | The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man’s property by will., The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice., Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction., Conscious inclination; propension or propensity., Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one’s fellow-men; temper of mind., Mood; humor. |
| dispositive | adjective | Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive., Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. |
| dispraising | present participle & vb. noun | of Dispraise |
| disproperty | verb t. | To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. |
| disprovable | adjective | Capable of being disproved or refuted. |
| disputacity | verb i. | Proneness to dispute. |
| disputation | verb i. | The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument., A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed. |
| disputative | adjective | Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. |
| disputeless | adjective | Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. |
| disquantity | verb t. | To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. |
| disquieting | present participle & vb. noun | of Disquiet |
| disquietful | adjective | Producing inquietude or uneasiness. |
| disquietive | adjective | Tending to disquiet. |
| disquietous | adjective | Causing uneasiness. |
| disregarded | imp. & past participle | of Disregard |
| disregarder | noun | One who disregards. |
| disrelished | imp. & past participle | of Disrelish |
| disremember | verb t. | To fail to remember; to forget. |
| dissectible | adjective | Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. |
| dissembling | present participle & vb. noun | of Dissemble, That dissembles; hypocritical; false. |
| disseminate | verb t. & i. | To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation., To spread or extend by dispersion. |
| dissensious | adjective | Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. |
| dissentiate | verb t. | To throw into a state of dissent. |
| dissentient | verb i. | Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting., One who dissents. |
| dissentious | adjective | Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. |
| dissepiment | noun | A separating tissue; a partition; a septum., One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells., One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral. |
| dissertator | noun | One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. |
| dissevering | present participle & vb. noun | of Dissever |
| dissidently | adverb | In a dissident manner. |
| dissilience | noun | Alt. of Dissiliency |
| dissiliency | noun | The act of leaping or starting asunder. |
| dissilition | noun | The act of bursting or springing apart. |
| dissimilate | verb t. | To render dissimilar. |
| dissimulate | adjective | Feigning; simulating; pretending., To dissemble; to feign; to pretend. |
| dissimulour | noun | A dissembler. |
| dissipating | present participle & vb. noun | of Dissipate |
| dissipation | noun | The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste., A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness., A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention. |
| dissipative | adjective | Tending to dissipate. |
| dissociable | adjective | Not /ell associated or assorted; incongruous., Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable. |
| dissociated | imp. & past participle | of Dissociate |
| dissolutely | adverb | In a dissolute manner. |
| dissolution | noun | The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation., Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting., Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution., The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership., The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death., The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction., The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution., Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin., Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. |
| dissolvable | adjective | Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. |
| dissundered | imp. & past participle | of Dissunder |
| dissyllabic | adjective | Consisting of two syllables only; as, a dissyllabic foot in poetry. |
| dissyllable | noun | A word of two syllables; as, pa-per. |
| dissymmetry | noun | Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry. |
| dissympathy | noun | Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. |
| distasteful | adjective | Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome., Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth., Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. |
| distasteive | adjective | Tending to excite distaste., That which excites distaste or aversion. |
| distempered | imp. & past participle | of Distemper |
| distensible | adjective | Capable of being distended or dilated. |
| disthronize | verb t. | To dethrone. |
| distillable | adjective | Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. |
| distillment | noun | Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. |
| distinction | noun | A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division., The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination., That which distinguishes one thing from another; distinguishing quality; sharply defined difference; as, the distinction between real and apparent good., Estimation of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance., Conspicuous station; eminence; superiority; honorable estimation; as, a man of distinction. |
| distinctive | adjective | Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar., Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. |
| distincture | noun | Distinctness. |
| distinguish | verb t. | Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic., To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low., To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum., To constitute a difference; to make to differ., To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; — with by or for., To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; — with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle., To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one’s self or itself discernible. |
| distracting | present participle & vb. noun | of Distract, Tending or serving to distract. |
| distractful | adjective | Distracting. |
| distractile | adjective | Tending or serving to draw apart. |
| distraction | noun | The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation., That which diverts attention; a diversion., A diversity of direction; detachment., State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity., Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions., Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair., Derangement of the mind; madness. |
| distractive | adjective | Causing perplexity; distracting. |
| distraining | present participle & vb. noun | of Distrain |
| distressing | present participle & vb. noun | of Distress, Causing distress; painful; unpleasant., In a distressing manner. |
| distressful | adjective | Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. |
| distributed | imp. & past participle | of Distribute |
| distributer | noun | One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. |
| districting | present participle & vb. noun | of District |
| distriction | noun | Sudden display; flash; glitter. |
| distrusting | present participle & vb. noun | of Distrust, That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. |
| distrustful | adjective | Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one’s powers., Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. |
| disturbance | noun | An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current., Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness., Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult., The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. |
| disulphuret | noun | See Disulphide. |
| disulphuric | adjective | Applied to an acid having in each molecule two atoms of sulphur in the higher state of oxidation. |
| disunionist | noun | An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States. |