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. |