| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| disabling | present participle & vb. noun | of Disable |
| disabused | imp. & past participle | of Disabuse |
| disaccord | verb i. | To refuse to assent., Disagreement. |
| disadvise | verb t. | To advise against; to dissuade from. |
| disaffect | verb t. | To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness., To disturb the functions of; to disorder., To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike. |
| disaffirm | verb t. | To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; — said of that which has been asserted., To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal. |
| disagreed | imp. & past participle | of Disagree |
| disagreer | noun | One who disagrees. |
| disanchor | verb t. & i. | To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. |
| disanoint | verb t. | To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king. |
| disappear | verb i. | 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., To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared. |
| disarming | imp. & past participle | of Disarm, of Disarm |
| disassent | verb i. | To dissent., Dissent. |
| disattire | verb t. | To unrobe; to undress. |
| disavouch | verb t. | To disavow. |
| disavowed | imp. & past participle | of Disavow |
| disavowal | noun | The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. |
| disavower | noun | One who disavows. |
| disbanded | imp. & past participle | of Disband |
| disbarred | imp. & past participle | of Disbar |
| disbecome | verb t. | To misbecome. |
| disbelief | 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. |
| disbodied | adjective | Disembodied. |
| disbranch | verb | To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. |
| disburden | verb t. | To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve., To relieve one’s self of a burden; to ease the mind. |
| disbursed | imp. & past participle | of Disburse |
| disburser | noun | One who disburses money. |
| discalced | adjective | Unshod; barefooted; — in distinction from calced. |
| discarded | imp. & past participle | of Discard |
| discerned | imp. & past participle | of Discern |
| discerner | noun | One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. |
| discharge | verb t. | To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel., To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, — to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar., To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear., To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss., To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner., To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo., To let fly, as a missile; to shoot., To set aside; to annul; to dismiss., To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one’s self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part., To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one’s debt or obligation to., To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath., To prohibit; to forbid., To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely., The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo., Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery., Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor., Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty., Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer., Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner., The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal., That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document., A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe. |
| dischurch | verb t. | To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church. |
| disciform | adjective | Discoid. |
| discipled | imp. & past participle | of Disciple |
| disclosed | imp. & past participle | of Disclose, Represented with wings expanded; — applied to doves and other birds not of prey. |
| discloser | noun | One who discloses. |
| discoboli | plural | of Discobolus |
| discoidal | adjective | Disk-shaped; discoid. |
| discolith | 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. |
| discomfit | verb t. | To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat., To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert., Discomfited; overthrown., Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. |
| discommon | verb t. | To deprive of the right of common., To deprive of privileges., To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. |
| discosent | verb i. | To differ; to disagree; to dissent. |
| discourse | 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., Conversation; talk., The art and manner of speaking and conversing., Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty., Dealing; transaction., To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason., To express one’s self in oral discourse; to expose one’s views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse., To relate something; to tell., To treat of something in writing and formally., To treat of; to expose or set forth in language., To utter or give forth; to speak., To talk to; to confer with. |
| discovert | adjective | Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; — applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow., An uncovered place or part. |
| discovery | noun | The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot., A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets., Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of the blood., That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery., Exploration; examination. |
| discradle | verb t. | To take from a cradle. |
| discredit | noun | The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit., Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; — applied to persons or things., To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited., To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of., To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace. |
| discumber | verb t. | To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. |
| discursus | noun | Argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning. |
| discussed | imp. & past participle | of Discuss |
| discusser | noun | One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. |
| disdained | imp. & past participle | of Disdain, Disdainful. |
| diseasing | present participle & vb. noun | of Disease |
| disembark | verb t. | To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops., To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. |
| disembody | verb t. | To divest of the body or corporeal existence., To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. |
| disemploy | verb t. | To throw out of employment. |
| disenable | verb t. | To disable; to disqualify. |
| disenamor | verb t. | To free from the captivity of love. |
| disengage | verb t. | 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., To release one’s self; to become detached; to free one’s self. |
| disenroll | verb i. | To erase from a roll or list. |
| disentail | verb t. | To free from entailment. |
| disentomb | verb t. | To take out from a tomb; a disinter. |
| disesteem | noun | Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute., To feel an absence of esteem for; to regard with disfavor or slight contempt; to slight., To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. |
| disfigure | verb t. | To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform., Disfigurement; deformity. |
| disforest | verb t. | To disafforest., To clear or deprive of forests or trees. |
| disgorged | imp. & past participle | of Disgorge |
| disgospel | verb i. | To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel. |
| disgraced | imp. & past participle | of Disgrace |
| disgracer | noun | One who disgraces. |
| disguised | imp. & past participle | of Disguise |
| disguiser | noun | One who, or that which, disguises., One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker. |
| disgusted | imp. & past participle | of Disgust |
| dishallow | verb t. | To make unholy; to profane. |
| dishcloth | noun | A cloth used for washing dishes. |
| dishclout | noun | A dishcloth. |
| dishevele | past participle & adjective | Disheveled. |
| dishonest | adjective | Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd., Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured., Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man., Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust., To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. |
| dishwater | noun | Water in which dishes have been washed. |
| disimpark | verb t. | To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. |
| disinfect | verb t. | To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. |
| disinhume | verb t. | To disinter. |
| disinsure | verb t. | To render insecure; to put in danger. |
| disinured | imp. & past participle | of Disinure |
| disjoined | imp. & past participle | of Disjoin |
| disliking | present participle & vb. noun | of Dislike |
| dislocate | verb t. | To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones., Dislocated. |
| dislodged | imp. & past participle | of Dislodge |
| dismantle | verb t. | To strip or deprive of dress; to divest., To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship., To disable; to render useless. |
| dismasted | imp. & past participle | of Dismast |
| dismaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Dismay |
| dismayful | adjective | Terrifying. |
| dismember | verb t. | To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up., To deprive of membership. |
| dismissed | imp. & past participle | of Dismiss |
| dismissal | noun | Dismission; discharge. |
| disobeyed | imp. & past participle | of Disobey |
| disobeyer | noun | One who disobeys. |
| disoblige | verb t. | To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to., To release from obligation. |
| disorient | verb t. | To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one’s bearings. |
| disowning | present participle & vb. noun | of Disown |
| disparage | verb t. | To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage., To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue., Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. |
| disparate | adjective | Unequal; dissimilar; separate., Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions. |
| disparity | noun | Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; — followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. |
| disparkle | verb t. | To scatter abroad. |
| disparted | imp. & past participle | of Dispart |
| dispauper | verb t. | To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis. |
| dispelled | imp. & past participle | of Dispel |
| dispender | noun | One who dispends or expends; a steward. |
| dispensed | imp. & past participle | of Dispense |
| dispenser | noun | One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. |
| dispeople | verb t. | To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. |
| disperple | verb t. | To scatter; to sprinkle. |
| dispersal | noun | The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. |
| dispersed | imp. & past participle | of Disperse, Scattered. |
| disperser | noun | One that disperses. |
| displaced | imp. & past participle | of Displace |
| displacer | noun | One that displaces., The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. |
| displayed | imp. & past participle | of Display, Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously., With wings expanded; — said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle., Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye. |
| displayer | noun | One who, or that which, displays. |
| displease | verb t. | To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; — often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke., To fail to satisfy; to miss of., To give displeasure or offense. |
| disploded | imp. & past participle | of Displode |
| displumed | imp. & past participle | of Displume |
| dispoline | noun | One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids. |
| dispondee | noun | A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables. |
| disporous | adjective | Having two spores. |
| disported | imp. & past participle | of Disport |
| disposing | present participle & vb. noun | of Dispose |
| disposure | noun | The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction., Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. |
| dispraise | verb t. | To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame., The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. |
| disprince | verb t. | To make unlike a prince. |
| disprison | verb t. | To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. |
| disprofit | noun | Loss; damage., To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. |
| disproval | noun | Act of disproving; disproof. |
| disproved | imp. & past participle | of Disprove |
| disprover | noun | One who disproves or confutes. |
| dispurvey | verb t. | To disfurnish; to strip. |
| disputant | verb i. | Disputing; engaged in controversy., One who disputes; one who argues // opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition. |
| disputing | present participle & vb. noun | of Dispute |
| disregard | verb t. | Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience., The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded; intentional neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. |
| disrelish | noun | Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food., Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness., Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at., To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree. |
| disrepair | noun | A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. |
| disrepute | noun | Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit., To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor. |
| disrobing | present participle & vb. noun | of Disrobe |
| disrooted | imp. & past participle | of Disroot |
| disrudder | verb t. | To deprive of the rudder, as a ship. |
| disrulily | adverb | In a disorderly manner. |
| disrupted | imp. & past participle | of Disrupt |
| dissected | imp. & past participle | of Dissect, Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map., Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf. |
| dissector | noun | One who dissects; an anatomist. |
| disseized | imp. & past participle | of Disseize |
| disseizee | noun | A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; — correlative to disseizor. |
| disseizin | noun | The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. |
| disseizor | noun | One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold. |
| dissemble | verb t. | To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask., To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign., To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite. |
| dissented | imp. & past participle | of Dissent |
| dissenter | noun | One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement., One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. |
| dissertly | adverb | See Disertly. |
| dissettle | verb t. | To unsettle. |
| disshadow | verb t. | To free from shadow or shade. |
| disshiver | verb t. & i. | To shiver or break in pieces. |
| dissident | adjective | No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different., One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion. |
| dissimile | noun | Comparison or illustration by contraries. |
| dissimule | verb t. & i. | To dissemble. |
| dissipate | verb t. | To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; — used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored., To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander., To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates., To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation. |
| dissocial | verb t. | Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings. |
| dissolute | adjective | With nerves unstrung; weak., Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. |
| dissolved | imp. & past participle | of Dissolve |
| dissolver | noun | One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. |
| dissonant | adjective | Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious., Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, — with from or to. |
| disspirit | verb t. | See Dispirit. |
| dissuaded | imp. & past participle | of Dissuade |
| dissuader | noun | One who dissuades; a dehorter. |
| dissunder | verb t. | To separate; to sunder; to destroy. |
| distained | imp. & past participle | of Distain |
| distanced | imp. & past participle | of Distance |
| distantly | adverb | At a distance; remotely; with reserve. |
| distasted | imp. & past participle | of Distaste |
| distemper | verb t. | To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of., To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease., To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant., To intoxicate., To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size., An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts., Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold., A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; — at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle., Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor., Political disorder; tumult., A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms., A painting done with this preparation. |
| distended | imp. & past participle | of Distend |
| disthrone | verb t. | To dethrone. |
| distilled | imp. & past participle | of Distill |
| distiller | noun | One who distills; esp., one who extracts alcoholic liquors by distillation., The condenser of a distilling apparatus. |
| distorted | imp. & past participle | of Distort |
| distorter | noun | One who, or that which, distorts. |
| distraint | noun | The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. |
| disturbed | imp. & past participle | of Disturb |
| disturber | noun | One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler., One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right. |
| disunited | imp. & past participle | of Disunite |
| disuniter | noun | One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion. |
| diswitted | adjective | Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. |