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Deodar
  • (n.) 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

    Deodorant
  • (n.) A deodorizer.

    Deodorize
  • (v. t.) To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

    Deontological
  • (a.) Pertaining to deontology.

    Deontology
  • (n.) The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation.

    Deoxidize
  • (v. t.) To deprive of oxygen

    Deoxygenate
  • (v. t.) To deoxidize.

    Deoxygenize
  • (v. t.) To deoxidize.

    Depart
  • (n.) A going away
  • (v. i.) To forsake
  • (v. t.) To divide in order to share

    Depasture
  • (v. t. & i.) To pasture

    Depauperate
  • (a.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.
  • (v. t. & i.) To make poor

    Depend
  • (v. i.) To hang down

    Depict
  • (p. p.) Depicted.
  • (v. t.) To form a colored likeness of

    Depilate
  • (v. t.) To strip of hair

    Depilation
  • (n.) Act of pulling out or removing the hair

    Depilatory
  • (a.) Having the quality or power of removing hair.
  • (n.) An application used to take off hair.

    Deplete
  • (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

    Deplorable
  • (a.) Worthy of being deplored or lamented

    Deplore
  • (v. i.) To lament.
  • (v. t.) To complain of.

    Deploy
  • (v. t. & i.) To open out

    Deplume
  • (v. t.) To lay bare

    Depolarize
  • (v. t.) To deprive of polarity

    Depone
  • (v. i.) To testify under oath
  • (v. t.) To assert under oath

    Depopulate
  • (v. i.) To become dispeopled.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion

    Deport
  • (n.) Behavior
  • (v. t.) To carry or demean

    Deposal
  • (n.) The act of deposing from office

    Depose
  • (v. i.) To bear witness
  • (v. t.) To lay down

    Deposit
  • (n.) To lay aside
  • (v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

    Depot
  • (n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled

    Deprave
  • (n. t.) To make bad or worse

    Depravity
  • (n.) The state of being depraved or corrupted

    Deprecate
  • (v. t.) To pray against, as an evil

    Deprecatory
  • (a.) Serving to deprecate

    Depreciate
  • (v. i.) To fall in value
  • (v. t.) To lessen in price or estimated value

    Depreciation
  • (n.) The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

    Depreciative
  • (a.) Tending, or intended, to depreciate

    Depreciatory
  • (a.) Tending to depreciate

    Depredate
  • (v. i.) To take plunder or prey
  • (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage

    Depredation
  • (n.) The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated

    Depress
  • (a.) Having the middle lower than the border
  • (v. t.) To bring down or humble

    Deprivation
  • (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving

    Deprive
  • (v. t.) To dispossess

    Depth
  • (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

    Depurate
  • (a.) Depurated
  • (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence

    Depurative
  • (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors
  • (n.) A depurative remedy or agent

    Deputation
  • (n.) The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative

    Depute
  • (n.) A person deputed
  • (v. t.) To appoint

    Deputize
  • (v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy

    Deputy
  • (n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies.

    Deracinate
  • (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots

    Derail
  • (v. t.) To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

    Derange
  • (v. t.) To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism

    Derby
  • (n.) 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

    Derelict
  • (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian
  • (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea

    Deride
  • (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt

    Derision
  • (n.) An object of derision or scorn

    Derisive
  • (a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.

    Derisory
  • (a.) Derisive

    Derivate
  • (a.) Derived
  • (n.) A thing derived
  • (v. t.) To derive.

    Derivation
  • (n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process

    Derivative
  • (a.) Obtained by derivation
  • (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion

    Derive
  • (v. i.) To flow
  • (v. t.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution

    Dermal
  • (a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin.

    Dermatitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the skin.

    Dermatoid
  • (a.) Resembling skin

    Dermatology
  • (n.) The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.

    Dermatophyte
  • (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.

    Dermic
  • (a.) Pertaining to the dermis

    Dermis
  • (n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis

    Derogate
  • (n.) Diminished in value
  • (v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character
  • (v. t.) To annul in part

    Derogation
  • (n.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.

    Derogative
  • (a.) Derogatory.

    Derogatory
  • (a.) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value

    Derrick
  • (n.) 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

    Derringer
  • (n.) A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball

    Descant
  • (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air

    Descend
  • (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
  • (v. t.) To go down upon or along

    Descent
  • (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

    Describe
  • (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing
  • (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes

    Description
  • (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable

    Descriptive
  • (a.) Tending to describe

    Descry
  • (n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
  • (v. t.) To discover

    Desecrate
  • (v. t.) To divest of a sacred character or office

    Desert
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert
  • (n.) A deserted or forsaken region
  • (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave
  • (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave

    Deserve
  • (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense
  • (v. t.) To earn by service

    Deserving
  • (a.) Meritorious
  • (n.) Desert

    Deshabille
  • (n.) An undress

    Desiccant
  • (a.) Drying
  • (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.

    Desiccate
  • (v. i.) To become dry.
  • (v. t.) To dry up

    Desiccator
  • (n.) A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat

    Desiderate
  • (v. t.) To desire

    Desiderative
  • (a.) Denoting desire
  • (n.) An object of desire.

    Desideratum
  • (n.) Anything desired

    Design
  • (n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done
  • (v. i.) To form a design or designs

    Desinence
  • (n.) Termination

    Desirable
  • (v. t.) Worthy of desire or longing

    Desire
  • (v. t.) An expressed wish

    Desirous
  • (n.) Feeling desire

    Desist
  • (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act

    Desk
  • (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached
  • (v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk

    Desman
  • (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers

    Desolate
  • (a.) Destitute of
  • (v. t.) To lay waste

    Desolation
  • (n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.

    Despair
  • (n.) Loss of hope
  • (v. i.) To be hopeless
  • (v. t.) To cause to despair.

    Desperado
  • (n.) A reckless, furious man

    Desperate
  • (a.) Beyond hope
  • (n.) One desperate or hopeless.

    Desperation
  • (n.) A state of despair, or utter hopeless

    Despicable
  • (a.) Fit or deserving to be despised

    Despise
  • (v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt

    Despite
  • (n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance
  • (prep.) In spite of

    Despoil
  • (n.) Spoil.
  • (v. t.) To deprive for spoil

    Despoliation
  • (n.) A stripping or plundering

    Despond
  • (n.) Despondency.
  • (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit

    Despot
  • (n.) A master

    Despumate
  • (v. t. & i.) To throw off impurities in spume

    Desquamate
  • (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales

    Dessert
  • (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment

    Destination
  • (n.) Purpose for which anything is destined

    Destine
  • (v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of

    Destiny
  • (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined

    Destitute
  • (a.) Forsaken
  • (v. t.) To disappoint.

    Destitution
  • (n.) The state of being deprived of anything

    Destroy
  • (v. t.) To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of

    Destruct
  • (v. t.) To destroy.

    Desuetude
  • (n.) The cessation of use

    Desultory
  • (a.) Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection

    Detach
  • (v. i.) To push asunder
  • (v. t.) To part

    Detail
  • (n.) A detail drawing.

    Detain
  • (n.) Detention.
  • (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

    Detect
  • (a.) Detected.
  • (v. t.) To inform against

    Detent
  • (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement

    Deter
  • (v. t.) To prevent by fear

    Detest
  • (v. t.) To hate intensely

    Dethrone
  • (v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne

    Detinue
  • (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

    Detonate
  • (v. i.) To explode with a sudden report
  • (v. t.) To cause to explode

    Detonation
  • (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton

    Detonator
  • (n.) A case containing detonating powder, the explosion of which serves as a signal, as on railroads

    Detour
  • (n.) A turning

    Detract
  • (v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit
  • (v. t.) To take away

    Detrain
  • (v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.

    Detriment
  • (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy
  • (v. t.) To do injury to

    Detrition
  • (n.) A wearing off or away.

    Detritus
  • (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions

    Detrude
  • (v. t.) To thrust down or out

    Detumescence
  • (n.) Diminution of swelling

    Deuce
  • (n.) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game

    Deuterocanonical
  • (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority

    Deuteronomist
  • (n.) The writer of Deuteronomy.

    Deuteronomy
  • (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

    Deutoplasm
  • (n.) The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm

    Deutzia
  • (n.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.

    Deva
  • (n.) A god

    Develop
  • (v. i.) To become apparent gradually
  • (v. t.) To advance

    Devi
  • (n.)

    Devocalize
  • (v. t.) To make toneless

    Devoid
  • (v. t.) Destitute

    Devolution
  • (n.) The act of rolling down.

    Devolve
  • (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession
  • (v. t.) To roll onward or downward

    Devonian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England
  • (n.) The Devonian age or formation.

    Devote
  • (a.) Devoted
  • (n.) A devotee.
  • (v. t.) To appropriate by vow

    Devotion
  • (n.) Act of devotedness or devoutness

    Devour
  • (v. t.) To eat up with greediness

    Devout
  • (n.) A devotee.
  • (v. t.) Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties

    Dew
  • (n.) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
  • (v. t.) To wet with dew or as with dew

    Dewberry
  • (n.) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus)

    Dewclaw
  • (n.) In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground

    Dewdrop
  • (n.) A drop of dew.

    Dewfall
  • (n.) The falling of dew

    Dewlap
  • (n.) The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age.

    Dewy
  • (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.

    Dexter
  • (a.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side
  • (n.) One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable both for beef and milk

    Dextral
  • (a.) Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.

    Dextrin
  • (n.) A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc

    Dextrorotatory
  • (a.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand

    Dextrose
  • (n.) 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

    Dey
  • (n.) A servant who has charge of the dairy

    Dhole
  • (n.) 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

    Dhow
  • (n.) A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail

    Diabase
  • (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron

    Diabetes
  • (n.) 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

    Diabolical
  • (a.) Pertaining to the devil

    Diabolism
  • (n.) Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.

    Diabolize
  • (v. t.) To render diabolical.

    Diacid
  • (a.) Divalent

    Diaconal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a deacon.

    Diaconate
  • (a.) Governed by deacons.
  • (n.) The office of a deacon

    Diacritical
  • (a.) That separates or distinguishes

    Diadelphous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia

    Diadem
  • (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center
  • (v. t.) To adorn with a diadem

    Diageotropism
  • (n.) The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth

    Diagnose
  • (v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis

    Diagnosis
  • (n.) Critical perception or scrutiny

    Diagnostic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis
  • (n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.

    Diagonal
  • (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure
  • (n.) A diagonal cloth

    Diagram
  • (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration
  • (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram.

    Diagraph
  • (n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

    Dial
  • (n.) A miner's compass.
  • (v. t.) To measure with a dial.

    Diamagnet
  • (n.) A body having diamagnetic polarity.

    Diamantine
  • (a.) Adamantine.

    Diameter
  • (n.) A diametral plane.

    Diametral
  • (a.) Pertaining to a diameter
  • (n.) A diameter.

    Diametrically
  • (adv.) In a diametrical manner

    Diamine
  • (n.) A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals

    Diamond
  • (a.) Resembling a diamond
  • (n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse

    Diana
  • (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona

    Diandrous
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the class Diandria

    Dianthus
  • (n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William

    Diapason
  • (n.) A standard of pitch

    Diapedesis
  • (n.) 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
  • (n.) A composition of five ingredients.

    Diaper
  • (n.) An infant's breechcloth.
  • (v. i.) To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
  • (v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving

    Diaphanous
  • (a.) Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain

    Diaphoresis
  • (n.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

    Diaphoretic
  • (n.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

    Diaphragm
  • (n.) A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.

    Diaphysis
  • (n.) An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

    Diarchy
  • (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.

    Diarist
  • (n.) One who keeps a diary.

    Diarthrosis
  • (n.) A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion

    Diary
  • (a.) lasting for one day
  • (n.) A register of daily events or transactions

    Diaspora
  • (n.) Lit., "Dispersion."—applied collectively: (a) To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen

    Diaspore
  • (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster

    Diastase
  • (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

    Diastasis
  • (n.) A forcible of bones without fracture.

    Diastema
  • (n.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

    Diastole
  • (n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

    Diatessaron
  • (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.

    Diathermic
  • (a.) Affording a free passage to heat

    Diathesis
  • (n.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases

    Diatom
  • (n.) A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.

    Diatonic
  • (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.

    Diatribe
  • (n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion

    Diazotize
  • (v. t.) To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution

    Dibasic
  • (a.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts

    Dibber
  • (n.) A dibble.

    Dibble
  • (v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds
  • (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.

    Dibranchiate
  • (a.) Having two gills.
  • (n.) One of the Dibranchiata.

    Dibs
  • (n.) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.

    Dicast
  • (n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.

    Dice
  • (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance
  • (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

    Dichogamy
  • (n.) 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

    Dichotomize
  • (v. i.) To separate into two parts
  • (v. t.) To cut into two parts

    Dichotomy
  • (n.) A cutting in two

    Dichroic
  • (a.) Having the property of dichroism

    Dichroite
  • (n.) Iolite

    Dichromate
  • (n.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base

    Dichromatic
  • (a.) Having or exhibiting two colors.

    Dichromatism
  • (n.) The state of being dichromatic.

    Dichromic
  • (a.) Furnishing or giving two colors

    Dicker
  • (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares
  • (v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker

    Dicky
  • (n.) A false shirt front or bosom.

    Diclinous
  • (a.) Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

    Dicotyledon
  • (n.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

    Dicrotism
  • (n.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart

    Dictaphone
  • (n.) A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business

    Dictate
  • (v. i.) To compose literary works
  • (v. t.) A statement delivered with authority

    Dictation
  • (n.) The act of dictating

    Dictator
  • (n.) One invested with absolute authority

    Diction
  • (n.) Choice of words for the expression of ideas

    Dictum
  • (n.) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it

    Dicynodont
  • (n.) 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

    Didactic
  • (n.) A treatise on teaching or education.

    Diddle
  • (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.

    Dido
  • (n.) A shrewd trick

    Didymium
  • (n.) A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium

    Die
  • (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc
  • (v. i.) To become indifferent

    Dielectric
  • (n.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction

    Diencephalon
  • (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon

    Dieresis
  • (n.) A mark consisting of two dots

    Diesis
  • (n.) A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals

    Diestock
  • (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

    Diet
  • (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health
  • (v. i.) To eat
  • (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules

    Differ
  • (v. i.) To be of unlike or opposite opinion
  • (v. t.) To cause to be different or unlike

    Difficult
  • (a.) Hard to do or to make
  • (v. t.) To render difficult

    Diffidence
  • (n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers

    Diffident
  • (a.) Wanting confidence in one's self

    Diffract
  • (v. t.) To break or separate into parts

    Diffuse
  • (a.) Poured out
  • (v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
  • (v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid

    Diffusible
  • (a.) Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions

    Diffusion
  • (n.) The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused

    Diffusive
  • (a.) Having the quality of diffusing

    Dig
  • (n.) = Gouge.
  • (v. i.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work
  • (v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.

    Digamma
  • (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.

    Digamy
  • (n.) Act, or state, of being twice married

    Digastric
  • (a.) Having two bellies

    Digest
  • (v. i.) To suppurate
  • (v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics

    Digger
  • (n.) One who, or that which, digs.

    Dight
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dight
  • (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.

    Digit
  • (n.) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
  • (v. t.) To point at or out with the finger.

    Dignified
  • (a.) Marked with dignity

    Dignify
  • (v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor

    Dignitary
  • (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor

    Dignity
  • (n.) Elevated rank

    Digraph
  • (n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound

    Digress
  • (n.) Digression.
  • (v. i.) To step or turn aside

    Dihedral
  • (a.) Having two plane faces

    Dike
  • (n.) A ditch
  • (v. i.) To work as a ditcher
  • (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.

    Dilapidate
  • (v. i.) To get out of repair
  • (v. t.) To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect

    Dilatation
  • (n.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.

    Dilatator
  • (n.) A muscle which dilates any part

    Dilate
  • (a.) Extensive
  • (v. i.) To grow wide
  • (v. t.) To enlarge upon

    Dilation
  • (n.) Delay.

    Dilatometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid

    Dilator
  • (n.) A muscle that dilates any part.

    Dilemma
  • (n.) An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses

    Dilettante
  • (v. t.) An admirer or lover of the fine arts

    Diligence
  • (n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

    Diligent
  • (a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive

    Dill
  • (a.) To still
  • (n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children

    Diluent
  • (a.) Diluting
  • (n.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood

    Dilute
  • (a.) Diluted
  • (v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak
  • (v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing

    Dilution
  • (n.) The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.

    Diluvial
  • (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water


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