| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| dead-hearted | adjective | Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless. |
| deambulation | noun | A walking abroad; a promenading. |
| deambulatory | adjective | Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory., A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. |
| dearticulate | verb t. | To disjoint. |
| deathfulness | noun | Appearance of death. |
| death’s-head | noun | A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. |
| death’s-herb | noun | The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). |
| debacchation | noun | Wild raving or debauchery. |
| debaucheries | plural | of Debauchery |
| de bene esse | Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally. | |
| debilitating | present participle & vb. noun | of Debilitate |
| debilitation | noun | The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness. |
| debituminize | verb t. | To deprive of bitumen. |
| debonairness | noun | The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. |
| decalcifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Decalcify |
| decalcomania | noun | Alt. of Decalcomanie |
| decalcomanie | noun | The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto. |
| decaphyllous | adjective | Having ten leaves. |
| decapitating | present participle & vb. noun | of Decapitate |
| decapitation | noun | The act of beheading; beheading. |
| decarbonized | imp. & past participle | of Decarbonize |
| decarbonizer | noun | He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance. |
| decasyllabic | adjective | Having, or consisting of, ten syllables. |
| decemdentate | adjective | Having ten points or teeth. |
| decemlocular | adjective | Having ten cells for seeds. |
| decemvirship | noun | The office of a decemvir. |
| decentralize | verb t. | 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. |
| decipherable | adjective | Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. |
| decipherment | noun | The act of deciphering. |
| decitizenize | verb t. | To deprive of the rights of citizenship. |
| declaredness | noun | The state of being declared. |
| declensional | adjective | Belonging to declension. |
| declinometer | noun | An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle. |
| decoloration | noun | The removal or absence of color. |
| decomposable | adjective | Capable of being resolved into constituent elements. |
| decompounded | imp. & past participle | of Decompound |
| deconsecrate | verb t. | To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. |
| decorticated | imp. & past participle | of Decorticate |
| decorticator | noun | A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees. |
| decreaseless | adjective | Suffering no decrease. |
| decrepitated | imp. & past participle | of Decrepitate |
| decrepitness | noun | Decrepitude. |
| decrustation | noun | The removal of a crust. |
| dedecoration | noun | Disgrace; dishonor. |
| dedicatorial | adjective | Dedicatory. |
| deducibility | noun | Deducibleness. |
| deep-mouthed | adjective | Having a loud and sonorous voice. |
| deep-waisted | adjective | Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck. |
| deerstalking | noun | The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares. |
| defatigation | noun | Weariness; fatigue. |
| defectionist | noun | One who advocates or encourages defection. |
| defectuosity | noun | Great imperfection. |
| deficiencies | plural | of Deficiency |
| defiguration | noun | Disfiguration; mutilation. |
| definiteness | noun | The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty. |
| definitional | adjective | Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining. |
| definitively | adverb | In a definitive manner. |
| deflagrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Deflagrate |
| deflagration | noun | A burning up; conflagration., The act or process of deflagrating. |
| deforciation | noun | Same as Deforcement, n. |
| defraudation | noun | The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. |
| degarnishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Degarnish |
| degenerating | present participle & vb. noun | of Degenerate |
| degenerately | adverb | In a degenerate manner; unworthily. |
| degeneration | noun | The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration., That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver., A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type., The thing degenerated. |
| degenerative | adjective | Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate. |
| degenerously | adverb | Basely. |
| deglutinated | imp. & past participle | of Deglutinate |
| deglutitious | adjective | Pertaining to deglutition. |
| deinotherium | noun | See Dinotherium. |
| delaceration | noun | A tearing in pieces. |
| delamination | noun | Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. |
| deliberating | present participle & vb. noun | of Deliberate |
| deliberately | adverb | With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed. |
| deliberation | noun | The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection., Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council. |
| deliberative | adjective | Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body., A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined., A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it. |
| delicateness | noun | The quality of being delicate. |
| delimitation | noun | The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. |
| delinquently | adverb | So as to fail in duty. |
| deliquescing | present participle & vb. noun | of Deliquesce |
| deliquescent | adjective | Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts., Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. |
| deliquiation | noun | The act of deliquiating. |
| delitescence | noun | Concealment; seclusion; retirement., The sudden disappearance of inflammation. |
| delitescency | noun | Concealment; seclusion. |
| delitigation | noun | Chiding; brawl. |
| della crusca | 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 | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. |
| delphinoidea | noun pl. | The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms. |
| demephitized | imp. & past participle | of Demephitize |
| demiculverin | noun | A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds. |
| demi-rilievo | noun | Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness., A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo. |
| demisability | noun | The state of being demisable. |
| demissionary | adjective | Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed., Tending to lower, depress, or degrade. |
| democratical | adjective | Democratic. |
| demolishment | noun | Demolition. |
| demoniacally | adverb | In a demoniacal manner. |
| demonologist | noun | One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology. |
| demonstrable | adjective | Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question., Proved; apparent. |
| demonstrably | adverb | In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. |
| demonstrance | noun | Demonstration; proof. |
| demonstrater | noun | See Demonstrator. |
| demonstrator | noun | One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence., A teacher of practical anatomy. |
| demoralizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Demoralize |
| denaturalize | verb t. | To render unnatural; to alienate from nature., To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize. |
| dendrologist | noun | One versed in the natural history of trees. |
| dendrologous | adjective | Relating to dendrology. |
| denizenation | noun | Denization; denizening. |
| denominating | present participle & vb. noun | of Denominate |
| denomination | noun | The act of naming or designating., That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons., A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians. |
| denominative | adjective | Conferring a denomination or name., Connotative; as, a denominative name., Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable., Derived from a substantive or an adjective; as, a denominative verb., A denominative name or term; denominative verb. |
| denouncement | noun | Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. |
| denticulated | adjective | Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx. |
| dentilingual | adjective | Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed., A dentilingual sound or letter. |
| dentiloquist | noun | One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed. |
| dentirostres | plural | of Dentiroster |
| dentirostral | 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. |
| dentolingual | adjective | Dentilingual. |
| denunciation | noun | Proclamation; announcement; a publishing., The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment., That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment. |
| denunciative | adjective | Same as Denunciatory. |
| denunciatory | adjective | Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. |
| deontologist | noun | One versed in deontology. |
| deoperculate | adjective | Having the lid removed; — said of the capsules of mosses. |
| deoppilation | noun | Removal of whatever stops up the passages. |
| deoppilative | adjective & noun | Deobstruent; aperient. |
| deordination | noun | Disorder; dissoluteness. |
| departmental | adjective | Pertaining to a department or division. |
| depauperated | imp. & past participle | of Depauperate |
| depeculation | noun | A robbing or embezzlement. |
| dependencies | plural | of Dependency |
| dephlegmated | imp. & past participle | of Dephlegmate |
| dephlegmator | 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. |
| deplantation | noun | Act of taking up plants from beds. |
| deploitation | noun | Same as Exploitation. |
| deploredness | noun | The state of being deplored or deplorable. |
| depolarizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Depolarize |
| depopulating | present participle & vb. noun | of Depopulate |
| depopulation | noun | The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants. |
| depositaries | plural | of Depositary |
| depositories | plural | of Depository |
| depravedness | noun | Depravity. |
| depreciating | present participle & vb. noun | of Depreciate |
| depreciation | noun | The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation., The falling of value; reduction of worth., the state of being depreciated. |
| depreciative | adjective | Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing. |
| depreciatory | adjective | Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative. |
| deprehending | present participle & vb. noun | of Deprehend |
| deprehension | noun | A catching; discovery. |
| depressingly | adverb | In a depressing manner. |
| dequantitate | verb t. | To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. |
| deracinating | present participle & vb. noun | of Deracinate |
| derivational | adjective | Relating to derivation. |
| dermatophyte | noun | A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin. |
| derogatorily | adverb | In a derogatory manner; disparagingly. |
| descendingly | adverb | In a descending manner. |
| descensional | adjective | Pertaining to descension. |
| desertlessly | adverb | Undeservedly. |
| deservedness | noun | Meritoriousness. |
| desiderating | present participle & vb. noun | of Desiderate |
| desideration | noun | Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. |
| desiderative | adjective | Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs., An object of desire., A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb. |
| desirability | noun | The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness. |
| desirousness | noun | The state of being desirous. |
| desolateness | noun | The state of being desolate. |
| despisedness | noun | The state of being despised. |
| despiteously | adverb | Despitefully. |
| despoliation | noun | A stripping or plundering; spoliation. |
| despondingly | adverb | In a desponding manner. |
| desponsation | noun | A betrothing; betrothal. |
| desponsories | plural | of Desponsory |
| desquamation | noun | The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones. |
| desquamative | adjective | Alt. of Desquamatory |
| desquamatory | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation., An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones. |
| destructible | adjective | Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed. |
| desulphurate | verb t. | To deprive of sulphur. |
| desulphurize | verb t. | To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur. |
| desultorious | adjective | Desultory. |
| desynonymize | verb t. | To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; — applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. |
| deteriorated | imp. & past participle | of Deteriorate |
| determinable | verb t. | Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion. |
| determinator | noun | One who determines. |
| determinedly | adverb | In a determined manner; with determination. |
| dethronement | noun | Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power. |
| detonization | noun | The act of detonizing; detonation. |
| detractingly | adverb | In a detracting manner. |
| detruncating | present participle & vb. noun | of Detuncate |
| detruncation | noun | The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body. |
| detumescence | noun | Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. |
| deuterogenic | adjective | Of secondary origin; — said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks. |
| deuteropathy | noun | A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach. |
| deuteroscopy | noun | Second sight., That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. |
| deuterozooid | 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. |
| deutoplastic | adjective | Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm. |
| devaporation | noun | The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain. |
| devotionally | adverb | In a devotional manner; toward devotion. |
| dextrogerous | adjective | See Dextrogyrate. |
| dextrogyrate | adjective | Same as Dextrorotatory. |
| dextrorotary | adjective | See Dextrotatory. |
| dextrousness | noun | Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc. |