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Dim
  • (superl.) Not bright or distinct
  • (v. i.) To grow dim.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of distinct vision

    Dime
  • (n.) A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents

    Diminish
  • (v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller
  • (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of

    Diminuendo
  • (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner

    Diminution
  • (n.) In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself

    Diminutive
  • (a.) Below the average size
  • (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive

    Dimity
  • (n.) A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments

    Dimorphism
  • (n.) Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite

    Dimple
  • (n.) A slight indentation on any surface.
  • (v. i.) To form dimples
  • (v. t.) To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

    Din
  • (imp.) of Do
  • (n.) Loud, confused, harsh noise
  • (v. i.) To sound with a din

    Dinar
  • (n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.

    Dine
  • (v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day
  • (v. t.) To dine upon

    Ding
  • (n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
  • (v. i.) To sound, as a bell
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.

    Dink
  • (a.) Trim
  • (v. t.) To deck

    Dinner
  • (n.) An entertainment

    Dint
  • (n.) A blow
  • (v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure

    Diocesan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese
  • (n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese

    Diocese
  • (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction

    Dioecious
  • (a.) Having the sexes in two separate individuals

    Dionysia
  • (n. pl.) Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia

    Diopside
  • (n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color

    Dioptric
  • (n.) A dioptre.

    Diorama
  • (n.) A building used for such an exhibition.

    Diorite
  • (n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende

    Dioxide
  • (n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal

    Dip
  • (n.) A dipped candle.
  • (v. i.) To dip snuff.
  • (v. t.) To engage as a pledge

    Diphenyl
  • (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube

    Diphtheria
  • (n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation

    Diphthong
  • (n.) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable
  • (v. t.) To form or pronounce as a diphthong

    Diphycercal
  • (a.) Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column

    Diphyodont
  • (a.) Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other
  • (n.) An animal having two successive sets of teeth.

    Diplex
  • (a.) Pertaining to the sending of two messages in the same direction at the same time. Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex

    Diploblastic
  • (a.) Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

    Diploid
  • (n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron

    Diploma
  • (n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power

    Diplopod
  • (n.) One of the Diplopoda.

    Dipody
  • (n.) Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

    Dipper
  • (n.) A small grebe

    Dipsomania
  • (n.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors

    Dipteran
  • (n.) An insect of the order Diptera.

    Dipterous
  • (a.) Having two wings, as certain insects

    Diptych
  • (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church

    Dire
  • (superl.) Evil in great degree

    Dirge
  • (a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites

    Dirigible
  • (a.) Capable of being directed

    Dirk
  • (a.) Dark.
  • (n.) A kind of dagger or poniard
  • (v. t.) To darken.

    Dirt
  • (n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.
  • (v. t.) To make foul of filthy

    Dis
  • (n.) The god Pluto.

    Disability
  • (n.) State of being disabled

    Disable
  • (a.) Lacking ability
  • (v. t.) To deprive of legal right or qualification

    Disabuse
  • (v. t.) To set free from mistakes

    Disaccord
  • (n.) Disagreement.
  • (v. i.) To refuse to assent.

    Disaccustom
  • (v. t.) To destroy the force of habit in

    Disadvantage
  • (n.) Deprivation of advantage
  • (v. t.) To injure the interest of

    Disaffect
  • (v. t.) To alienate or diminish the affection of

    Disaffirm
  • (v. t.) To assert the contrary of

    Disaggregate
  • (v. t.) To destroy the aggregation of

    Disagree
  • (v. i.) To be unsuited

    Disallow
  • (v. t.) To refuse to allow

    Disannul
  • (v. t.) To annul completely

    Disappear
  • (v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived

    Disappoint
  • (v. t.) To defeat of expectation or hope

    Disapprobation
  • (n.) The act of disapproving

    Disapproval
  • (n.) Disapprobation

    Disapprove
  • (v. t.) To pass unfavorable judgment upon

    Disarm
  • (v. t.) To deprive of arms

    Disarrange
  • (v. t.) To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of

    Disarray
  • (n.) Confused attire
  • (v. t.) To take off the dress of

    Disarticulate
  • (v. t.) To sunder

    Disassociate
  • (v. t.) To disconnect from things associated

    Disaster
  • (n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune
  • (v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

    Disastrous
  • (a.) Attended with suffering or disaster

    Disavow
  • (v. t.) To deny

    Disband
  • (v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered
  • (v. t.) To divorce.

    Disbar
  • (v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession

    Disbelief
  • (n.) The act of disbelieving

    Disbelieve
  • (v. t.) Not to believe

    Disbud
  • (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree

    Disburden
  • (v. i.) To relieve one's self of a burden
  • (v. t.) To rid of a burden

    Disburse
  • (v. t.) To pay out

    Disc
  • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals

    Disdain
  • (v. i.) To be filled with scorn
  • (v. t.) A feeling of contempt and aversion

    Disease
  • (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness
  • (v. t.) To deprive of ease

    Disembark
  • (v. i.) To go ashore out of a ship or boat
  • (v. t.) To remove from on board a vessel

    Disembarrass
  • (v. t.) To free from embarrassment, or perplexity

    Disembodied
  • (a.) Divested of a body

    Disembody
  • (v. t.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers.

    Disembowel
  • (v. t.) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

    Disembroil
  • (v. t.) To disentangle

    Disemploy
  • (v. t.) To throw out of employment.

    Disempower
  • (v. t.) To deprive of power

    Disenable
  • (v. t.) To disable

    Disenchant
  • (v. t.) To free from enchantment

    Disencumber
  • (v. t.) To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs

    Disendow
  • (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church.

    Disenfranchise
  • (v. t.) To disfranchise

    Disengage
  • (v. i.) To release one's self
  • (v. t.) To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled

    Disentail
  • (v. t.) To free from entailment.

    Disentangle
  • (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity

    Disenthrall
  • (v. t.) To release from thralldom or slavery

    Disentitle
  • (v. t.) To deprive of title or claim.

    Disentomb
  • (v. t.) To take out from a tomb

    Disentwine
  • (v. t.) To free from being entwined or twisted.

    Disestablish
  • (v. t.) To unsettle

    Disesteem
  • (n.) Want of esteem
  • (v. t.) To deprive of esteem

    Disfavor
  • (n.) An unkindness
  • (v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.

    Disfeature
  • (v. t.) To deprive of features

    Disfiguration
  • (n.) The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured

    Disfigure
  • (n.) Disfigurement
  • (v. t.) To mar the figure of

    Disfranchise
  • (v. t.) To deprive of a franchise or chartered right

    Disfrock
  • (v. t.) To unfrock.

    Disgorge
  • (v. i.) To vomit forth what anything contains
  • (v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth

    Disgrace
  • (n.) An act of unkindness

    Disgruntle
  • (v. t.) To dissatisfy

    Disguise
  • (n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception
  • (v. t.) To affect or change by liquor

    Disgust
  • (v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive

    Dish
  • (n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
  • (v. t.) To frustrate

    Disillusion
  • (n.) The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom
  • (v. t.) To free from an illusion

    Disinclination
  • (n.) The state of being disinclined

    Disincline
  • (v. t.) To incline away the affections of

    Disincorporate
  • (a.) Separated from, or not included in, a corporation
  • (v. t.) To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges

    Disinfect
  • (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter

    Disingenuous
  • (a.) Not ingenuous

    Disinherit
  • (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession

    Disintegrate
  • (v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts
  • (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts

    Disintegration
  • (n.) The process by which anything is disintegrated

    Disintegrator
  • (n.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

    Disinter
  • (v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place

    Disjoin
  • (v. i.) To become separated
  • (v. t.) To part

    Disjunct
  • (a.) Disjoined

    Disk
  • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals

    Dislike
  • (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive
  • (v. t.) To awaken dislike in

    Dislocate
  • (a.) Dislocated.
  • (v. t.) To displace

    Dislocation
  • (n.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint

    Dislodge
  • (n.) Dwelling apart
  • (v. i.) To go from a place of rest.
  • (v. t.) To drive from a lodge or place of rest

    Disloyal
  • (a.) Not loyal

    Dismal
  • (a.) Fatal

    Dismantle
  • (v. t.) To disable

    Dismast
  • (v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts

    Dismay
  • (v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions
  • (v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay

    Disme
  • (n.) A tenth

    Dismiss
  • (n.) Dismission.
  • (v. t.) To discard

    Dismount
  • (v. i.) To alight from a horse
  • (v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.

    Disobedience
  • (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey

    Disobedient
  • (a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey

    Disobey
  • (v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey
  • (v. t.) Not to obey

    Disoblige
  • (v. t.) To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of

    Disobliging
  • (a.) Displeasing

    Disorder
  • (n.) Breach of public order
  • (v. t.) To depose from holy orders.

    Disorganization
  • (v. t.) The act of disorganizing

    Disorganize
  • (v. t.) To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc

    Disorient
  • (v. t.) To turn away from the cast

    Disown
  • (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow

    Disparage
  • (n.) Inequality in marriage
  • (v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior

    Disparate
  • (a.) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.

    Disparity
  • (n.) Inequality

    Dispassion
  • (n.) Freedom from passion

    Dispatch
  • (v. i.) To make haste
  • (v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed

    Dispel
  • (v. t.) To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish

    Dispensable
  • (a.) Capable of being dispensed or administered.

    Dispensary
  • (n.) A dispensatory.

    Dispensation
  • (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered

    Dispensatory
  • (n.) A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them
  • (v. t.) Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.

    Dispense
  • (n.) Expense
  • (v. i.) To compensate
  • (v. t.) Dispensation

    Dispersal
  • (n.) The act or result of dispersing or scattering

    Disperse
  • (v. i.) To distribute wealth
  • (v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish

    Dispersion
  • (n.) The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated

    Dispersive
  • (a.) Tending to disperse.

    Dispirit
  • (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits

    Displace
  • (v. t.) To change the place of

    Display
  • (n.) An opening or unfolding
  • (v. i.) To make a display
  • (v. t.) To discover

    Displease
  • (v. i.) To give displeasure or offense.
  • (v. t.) To fail to satisfy

    Displeasing
  • (a.) Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction

    Displeasure
  • (n.) State of disgrace or disfavor
  • (v. t.) To displease.

    Displode
  • (v. i.) To burst with a loud report
  • (v. t.) To discharge

    Disport
  • (v. i.) Play

    Disposable
  • (a.) Subject to disposal

    Disposal
  • (n.) Ordering

    Dispose
  • (n.) Cast of mind
  • (v. i.) To bargain
  • (v. t.) To deal out

    Disposition
  • (n.) Conscious inclination

    Dispositive
  • (a.) Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency.

    Dispossess
  • (v. t.) To put out of possession

    Dispraise
  • (v. t.) The act of dispraising

    Disprize
  • (v. t.) To depreciate.

    Disproof
  • (n.) A proving to be false or erroneous

    Disproportion
  • (n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity
  • (v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end

    Disprove
  • (v. t.) To disallow

    Disputable
  • (v. i.) Capable of being disputed

    Disputant
  • (n.) One who disputes
  • (v. i.) Disputing

    Disputation
  • (v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed

    Disputatious
  • (a.) Inclined to dispute

    Dispute
  • (v. i.) Contest
  • (v. t.) To make a subject of disputation

    Disqualification
  • (n.) That which disqualifies

    Disqualify
  • (v. t.) To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction

    Disquiet
  • (a.) Deprived of quiet
  • (n.) Want of quiet
  • (v. t.) To render unquiet

    Disquisition
  • (n.) A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject

    Disrate
  • (v. t.) To reduce to a lower rating or rank

    Disregard
  • (n.) The act of disregarding, or the state of being disregarded
  • (v. t.) Not to regard

    Disrelish
  • (n.) Absence of relishing or palatable quality
  • (v. t.) Not to relish

    Disremember
  • (v. t.) To fail to remember

    Disrepair
  • (n.) A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair.

    Disreputable
  • (a.) Not reputable

    Disrepute
  • (n.) Loss or want of reputation
  • (v. t.) To bring into disreputation

    Disrespect
  • (n.) Want of respect or reverence
  • (v. t.) To show disrespect to.

    Disrobe
  • (v. t. & i.) To divest of a robe

    Disrupt
  • (a.) Rent off
  • (v. t.) To break asunder

    Dissatisfaction
  • (n.) The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented

    Dissatisfactory
  • (a.) Causing dissatisfaction

    Dissatisfy
  • (v. t.) To render unsatisfied or discontented

    Dissect
  • (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism

    Disseize
  • (v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession

    Disseizin
  • (n.) The act of disseizing

    Dissemble
  • (v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense
  • (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming

    Dissembling
  • (a.) That dissembles

    Disseminate
  • (v. t. & i.) To sow broadcast or as seed

    Dissension
  • (n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words

    Dissent
  • (n.) Contrariety of nature
  • (v. i.) To differ

    Dissepiment
  • (n.) A separating tissue

    Dissertate
  • (v. i.) To deal in dissertation

    Dissertation
  • (n.) A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written

    Disserve
  • (v. t.) To fail to serve

    Disservice
  • (n.) Injury

    Dissever
  • (v. i.) To part
  • (v. t.) To part in two

    Dissidence
  • (a.) Disagreement

    Dissident
  • (a.) No agreeing
  • (n.) One who disagrees or dissents

    Dissimilar
  • (a.) Not similar

    Dissimilate
  • (v. t.) To render dissimilar.

    Dissimilation
  • (n.) The act of making dissimilar.

    Dissimilitude
  • (n.) A comparison by contrast

    Dissimulate
  • (a.) Feigning
  • (v. i.) To dissemble

    Dissipate
  • (v. i.) To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure
  • (v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use

    Dissipation
  • (n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure

    Dissociable
  • (a.) Having a tendency to dissolve social connections

    Dissociate
  • (v. t.) To separate from fellowship or union

    Dissociation
  • (n.) The act of dissociating or disuniting

    Dissoluble
  • (a.) Capable of being dissolved

    Dissolute
  • (a.) Loosed from restraint

    Dissolution
  • (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state

    Dissolve
  • (v. i.) To become fluid
  • (v. t.) To annul

    Dissonance
  • (n.) A mingling of discordant sounds

    Dissonant
  • (a.) Disagreeing

    Dissuade
  • (v. t.) To advise or exhort against

    Dissuasion
  • (n.) A motive or consideration tending to dissuade

    Dissuasive
  • (a.) Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose
  • (n.) A dissuasive argument or counsel

    Dissyllable
  • (n.) A word of two syllables

    Dissymmetry
  • (n.) Absence or defect of symmetry

    Distaff
  • (n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand

    Distal
  • (a.) Pertaining to that which is distal

    Distance
  • (n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
  • (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance

    Distant
  • (a.) Far separated

    Distaste
  • (n.) Alienation of affection
  • (v. i.) To be distasteful
  • (v. t.) Not to have relish or taste for

    Distemper
  • (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system

    Distend
  • (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated
  • (v. t.) To extend in some one direction

    Distich
  • (n.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense

    Distill
  • (n. & v) To drop
  • (v. t.) To dissolve or melt.

    Distinct
  • (a.) Distinguished
  • (v. t.) To distinguish.

    Distinguish
  • (v. i.) To become distinguished or distinctive
  • (v. t.) Not set apart from others by visible marks

    Distort
  • (a.) Distorted
  • (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction

    Distract
  • (a.) Insane
  • (v. t.) To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares

    Distrain
  • (v. i.) To levy a distress.
  • (v. t.) To press heavily upon

    Distrait
  • (a.) Absent-minded

    Distraught
  • (a.) Distracted
  • (p. p.) of Distract

    Distress
  • (n.) A state of danger or necessity

    Distributary
  • (a.) Tending to distribute or be distributed

    Distribute
  • (v. i.) To make distribution.
  • (v. t.) To dispense

    Distribution
  • (n.) A resolving a whole into its parts.

    Distributive
  • (a.) Assigning the species of a general term.
  • (n.) A distributive adjective or pronoun

    Distributor
  • (n.) A machine for distributing type.

    District
  • (a.) Rigorous
  • (n.) A division of territory
  • (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory

    Distrust
  • (n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity
  • (v. t.) To feel absence of trust in

    Disturb
  • (n.) Disturbance.
  • (v. t.) To agitate the mind of

    Disunion
  • (n.) A breach of concord and its effect

    Disunite
  • (v. i.) To part
  • (v. t.) To alienate in spirit

    Disunity
  • (n.) A state of separation or disunion

    Disuse
  • (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise
  • (v. t.) To cease to use

    Disvalue
  • (n.) Disesteem
  • (v. t.) To undervalue

    Dit
  • (n.) A ditty
  • (v. t.) To close up.

    Ditch
  • (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
  • (v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.
  • (v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in

    Ditheism
  • (n.) The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil

    Dithyramb
  • (n.) A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment

    Dittany
  • (n.) A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.

    Ditto
  • (adv.) As before, or aforesaid
  • (n.) The aforesaid thing

    Ditty
  • (v. i.) To sing
  • (v. t.) A saying or utterance

    Diuresis
  • (n.) Free excretion of urine.

    Diuretic
  • (a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
  • (n.) A medicine with diuretic properties.

    Diurnal
  • (a.) Active by day

    Diva
  • (n.) A prima donna.

    Dive
  • (n.) A place of low resort.
  • (v. t.) To explore by diving

    Divide
  • (n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams
  • (v. i.) To be separated
  • (v. t.) To cause to be separate

    Divination
  • (n.) An indication of what is future or secret

    Divine
  • (a.) A minister of the gospel
  • (v. i.) To conjecture or guess
  • (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow

    Divinity
  • (a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.

    Divisibility
  • (n.) The quality of being divisible

    Divisible
  • (a.) Capable of being divided or separated.
  • (n.) A divisible substance.

    Division
  • (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable

    Divisive
  • (a.) Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference.

    Divisor
  • (n.) The number by which the dividend is divided.

    Divorce
  • (n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority

    Divot
  • (n.) A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.

    Divulge
  • (v. i.) To become publicly known.
  • (v. t.) To impart


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