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- daring
- adj. Brave.
- Darwinism
- n. The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
- dastard
- n. A base coward.
- datum
- n. A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
- dauntless
- adj. Fearless.
- day-man
- n. A day-laborer.
- dead-heat
- n. A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
- dearth
- n. Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
- death's-head
- n. A human skull as a symbol of death.
- debase
- v. To lower in character or virtue.
- debatable
- adj. Subject to contention or dispute.
- debonair
- adj. Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.
- debut
- n. A first appearance in society or on the stage.
- decagon
- n. A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
- decagram
- n. A weight of 10 grams.
- decaliter
- n. A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
- decalogue
- n. The ten commandments.
- Decameron
- n. A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
- decameter
- n. A length of ten meters.
- decamp
- v. To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
- decapitate
- v. To behead.
- decapod
- adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
- decasyllable
- n. A line of ten syllables.
- deceit
- n. Falsehood.
- deceitful
- adj. Fraudulent.
- deceive
- v. To mislead by or as by falsehood.
- decency
- n. Moral fitness.
- decent
- adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
- deciduous
- adj. Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
- decimal
- adj. Founded on the number 10.
- decimate
- v. To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
- decipher
- v. To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
- declamation
- n. A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
- declamatory
- adj. A full and formal style of utterance.
- declarative
- adj. Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
- declension
- n. The change of endings in nouns and ,adj. to express their different relations of gender.
- decorate
- v. To embellish.
- decorous
- adj. Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
- decoy
- n. Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
- decrepit
- adj. Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
- dedication
- n. The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
- deduce
- v. To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
- deface
- v. To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
- defalcate
- v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
- defamation
- n. Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
- defame
- v. To slander.
- default
- n. The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
- defendant
- n. A person against whom a suit is brought.
- defensible
- adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.
- defensive
- adj. Carried on in resistance to aggression.
- defer
- v. To delay or put off to some other time.
- deference
- n. Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
- defiant
- adj. Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
- deficiency
- n. Lack or insufficiency.
- deficient
- adj. Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
- definite
- adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
- deflect
- v. To cause to turn aside or downward.
- deforest
- v. To clear of forests.
- deform
- v. To disfigure.
- deformity
- n. A disfigurement.
- defraud
- v. To deprive of something dishonestly.
- defray
- v. To make payment for.
- degeneracy
- n. A becoming worse.
- degenerate
- v. To become worse or inferior.
- degradation
- n. Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
- degrade
- v. To take away honors or position from.
- dehydrate
- v. To deprive of water.
- deify
- v. To regard or worship as a god.
- deign
- v. To deem worthy of notice or account.
- deist
- n. One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
- deity
- n. A god, goddess, or divine person.
- deject
- v. To dishearten.
- dejection
- n. Melancholy.
- delectable
- adj. Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
- delectation
- n. Delight.
- deleterious
- adj. Hurtful, morally or physically.
- delicacy
- n. That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
- delineate
- v. To represent by sketch or diagram.
- deliquesce
- v. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
- delirious
- adj. Raving.
- delude
- v. To mislead the mind or judgment of.
- deluge
- v. To overwhelm with a flood of water.
- delusion
- n. Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
- demagnetize
- v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
- demagogue
- n. An unprincipled politician.
- demeanor
- n. Deportment.
- demented
- adj. Insane.
- demerit
- n. A mark for failure or bad conduct.
- demise
- n. Death.
- demobilize
- v. To disband, as troops.
- demolish
- v. To annihilate.
- demonstrable
- adj. Capable of positive proof.
- demonstrate
- v. To prove indubitably.
- demonstrative
- adj. Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
- demonstrator
- n. One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
- demulcent
- n. Any application soothing to an irritable surface
- demurrage
- n. the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
- dendroid
- adj. Like a tree.
- dendrology
- n. The natural history of trees.
- denizen
- n. Inhabitant.
- denominate
- v. To give a name or epithet to.
- denomination
- n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
- denominator
- n. Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
- denote
- v. To designate by word or mark.
- denouement
- n. That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
- denounce
- v. To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
- dentifrice
- n. Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
- denude
- v. To strip the covering from.
- denunciation
- n. The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
- deplete
- v. To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
- deplorable
- adj. Contemptible.
- deplore
- v. To regard with grief or sorrow.
- deponent
- adj. Laying down.
- depopulate
- v. To remove the inhabitants from.
- deport
- v. To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
- deportment
- n. Demeanor.
- deposition
- n. Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
- depositor
- n. One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
- depository
- n. A place where anything is kept in safety.
- deprave
- v. To render bad, especially morally bad.
- deprecate
- v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
- depreciate
- v. To lessen the worth of.
- depreciation
- n. A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
- depress
- v. To press down.
- depression
- n. A falling of the spirits.
- depth
- n. Deepness.
- derelict
- adj. Neglectful of obligation.
- deride
- v. To ridicule.
- derisible
- adj. Open to ridicule.
- derision
- n. Ridicule.
- derivation
- n. That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
- derivative
- adj. Coming or acquired from some origin.
- derive
- v. To deduce, as from a premise.
- dermatology
- n. The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
- derrick
- n. An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
- descendant
- n. One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
- descendent
- adj. Proceeding downward.
- descent
- n. The act of moving or going downward.
- descry
- v. To discern.
- desert
- v. To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
- desiccant
- n. Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
- designate
- v. To select or appoint, as by authority.
- desist
- v. To cease from action.
- desistance
- n. Cessation.
- despair
- n. Utter hopelessness and despondency.
- desperado
- n. One without regard for law or life.
- desperate
- adj. Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
- despicable
- adj. Contemptible.
- despond
- v. To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
- despondent
- adj. Disheartened.
- despot
- n. An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
- despotism
- n. Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
- destitute
- adj. Poverty-stricken.
- desultory
- adj. Not connected with what precedes.
- deter
- v. To frighten away.
- deteriorate
- v. To grow worse.
- determinate
- adj. Definitely limited or fixed.
- determination
- n. The act of deciding.
- deterrent
- adj. Hindering from action through fear.
- detest
- v. To dislike or hate with intensity.
- detract
- v. To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
- detriment
- n. Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
- detrude
- v. To push down forcibly.
- deviate
- v. To take a different course.
- devilry
- n. Malicious mischief.
- deviltry
- n. Wanton and malicious mischief.
- devious
- adj. Out of the common or regular track.
- devise
- v. To invent.
- devout
- adj. Religious.
- dexterity
- n. Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
- diabolic
- adj. Characteristic of the devil.
- diacritical
- adj. Marking a difference.
- diagnose
- v. To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
- diagnosis
- n. Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
- dialect
- n. Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
- dialectician
- n. A logician.
- dialogue
- n. A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
- diaphanous
- adj. Transparent.
- diatomic
- adj. Containing only two atoms.
- diatribe
- n. A bitter or malicious criticism.
- dictum
- n. A positive utterance.
- didactic
- adj. Pertaining to teaching.
- difference
- n. Dissimilarity in any respect.
- differentia
- n. Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
- differential
- adj. Distinctive.
- differentiate
- v. To acquire a distinct and separate character.
- diffidence
- n. Self-distrust.
- diffident
- adj. Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
- diffusible
- adj. Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
- diffusion
- n. Dispersion.
- dignitary
- n. One who holds high rank.
- digraph
- n. A union of two characters representing a single sound.
- digress
- v. To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
- dilate
- v. To enlarge in all directions.
- dilatory
- adj. Tending to cause delay.
- dilemma
- n. A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.
- dilettante
- n. A superficial amateur.
- diligence
- n. Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
- dilute
- v. To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
- diminution
- n. Reduction.
- diphthong
- n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
- diplomacy
- n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
- diplomat
- n. A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
- diplomatic
- adj. Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
- diplomatist
- n. One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
- disagree
- v. To be opposite in opinion.
- disallow
- v. To withhold permission or sanction.
- disappear
- v. To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
- disappoint
- v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
- disapprove
- v. To regard with blame.
- disarm
- v. To deprive of weapons.
- disarrange
- v. To throw out of order.
- disavow
- v. To disclaim responsibility for.
- disavowal
- n. Denial.
- disbeliever
- n. One who refuses to believe.
- disburden
- v. To disencumber.
- disburse
- v. To pay out or expend, as money from a fund.
- discard
- v. To reject.
- discernible
- adj. Perceivable.
- disciple
- n. One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
- disciplinary
- adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
- discipline
- v. To train to obedience.
- disclaim
- v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
- discolor
- v. To stain.
- discomfit
- v. To put to confusion.
- discomfort
- n. The state of being positively uncomfortable.
- disconnect
- v. To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.
- disconsolate
- adj. Grief-stricken.
- discontinuance
- n. Interruption or intermission.
- discord
- n. Absence of harmoniousness.
- discountenance
- v. To look upon with disfavor.
- discover
- v. To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
- discredit
- v. To injure the reputation of.
- discreet
- adj. Judicious.
- discrepant
- adj. Opposite.
- discriminate
- v. To draw a distinction.
- discursive
- adj. Passing from one subject to another.
- discussion
- n. Debate.
- disenfranchise
- v. To deprive of any right privilege or power
- disengage
- v. To become detached.
- disfavor
- n. Disregard.
- disfigure
- v. To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
- dishabille
- n. Undress or negligent attire.
- dishonest
- adj. Untrustworthy.
- disillusion
- v. To disenchant.
- disinfect
- v. To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases.
- disinfectant
- n. A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
- disinherit
- v. To deprive of an inheritance.
- disinterested
- adj. Impartial.
- disjunctive
- adj. Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
- dislocate
- v. To put out of proper place or order.
- dismissal
- n. Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
- dismount
- v. To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
- disobedience
- n. Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
- disobedient
- adj. Neglecting or refusing to obey.
- disown
- v. To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
- disparage
- v. To regard or speak of slightingly.
- disparity
- n. Inequality.
- dispel
- v. To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
- dispensation
- n. That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
- displace
- v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
- dispossess
- v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
- disputation
- n. Verbal controversy.
- disqualify
- v. To debar.
- disquiet
- v. To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
- disregard
- v. To take no notice of.
- disreputable
- adj. Dishonorable or disgraceful.
- disrepute
- n. A bad name or character.
- disrobe
- v. To unclothe.
- disrupt
- v. To burst or break asunder.
- dissatisfy
- v. To displease.
- dissect
- v. To cut apart or to pieces.
- dissection
- n. The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
- dissemble
- v. To hide by pretending something different.
- disseminate
- v. To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
- dissension
- n. Angry or violent difference of opinion.
- dissent
- n. Disagreement.
- dissentient
- n. One who disagrees.
- dissentious
- adj. Contentious.
- dissertation
- n. Thesis.
- disservice
- n. An ill turn.
- dissever
- v. To divide.
- dissimilar
- adj. Different.
- dissipate
- v. To disperse or disappear.
- dissipation
- n. The state of being dispersed or scattered.
- dissolute
- adj. Lewd.
- dissolution
- n. A breaking up of a union of persons.
- dissolve
- v. To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
- dissonance
- n. Discord.
- dissonant
- adj. Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
- dissuade
- v. To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
- dissuasion
- n. The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
- disyllable
- n. A word of two syllables.
- distemper
- n. A disease or malady.
- distend
- v. To stretch out or expand in every direction.
- distensible
- adj. Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
- distention
- n. Expansion.
- distill
- v. To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
- distillation
- n. Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
- distiller
- n. One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
- distinction
- n. A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
- distort
- v. To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
- distrain
- v. To subject a person to distress.
- distrainor
- n. One who subjects a person to distress.
- distraught
- adj. Bewildered.
- distrust
- n. Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
- disunion
- n. Separation of relations or interests.
- diurnal
- adj. Daily.
- divagation
- n. Digression.
- divergent
- adj. Tending in different directions.
- diverse
- adj. Capable of various forms.
- diversion
- n. Pastime.
- diversity
- n. Dissimilitude.
- divert
- v. To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- divertible
- adj. Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- divest
- v. To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
- divination
- n. The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
- divinity
- n. The quality or character of being godlike.
- divisible
- adj. Capable of being separated into parts.
- divisor
- n. That by which a number or quantity is divided.
- divulge
- v. To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
- divulgence
- n. A divulging.
- docile
- adj. Easy to manage.
- docket
- n. The registry of judgments of a court.
- doe
- n. The female of the deer.
- dogma
- n. A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
- dogmatic
- adj. Making statements without argument or evidence.
- dogmatize
- v. To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
- doleful
- adj. Melancholy.
- dolesome
- adj. Melancholy.
- dolor
- n. Lamentation.
- dolorous
- adj. Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
- domain
- n. A sphere or field of action or interest.
- domesticity
- n. Life in or fondness for one's home and family.
- domicile
- n. The place where one lives.
- dominance
- n. Ascendancy.
- dominant
- adj. Conspicuously prominent.
- dominate
- v. To influence controllingly.
- domination
- n. Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
- domineer
- v. To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
- donate
- v. To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause.
- donator
- n. One who makes a donation or present.
- donee
- n. A person to whom a donation is made.
- donor
- n. One who makes a donation or present.
- dormant
- adj. Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
- doublet
- n. One of a pair of like things.
- dowry
- n. The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
- drachma
- n. A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
- dragnet
- n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
- dragoon
- n. In the British army, a cavalryman.
- drainage
- n. The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
- dramatist
- n. One who writes plays.
- dramatize
- v. To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
- drastic
- adj. Acting vigorously.
- drought
- n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
- drowsy
- adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
- drudgery
- n. Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
- dubious
- adj. Doubtful.
- duckling
- n. A young duck.
- ductile
- adj. Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
- duet
- n. A composition for two voices or instruments.
- dun
- v. To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
- duplex
- adj. Having two parts.
- duplicity
- n. Double-dealing.
- durance
- n. Confinement.
- duration
- n. The period of time during which anything lasts.
- duteous
- adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
- dutiable
- adj. Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
- dutiful
- adj. Obedient.
- dwindle
- v. To diminish or become less.
- dyne
- n. The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.