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- DEPURATINGpresent participle and gerund of depurate
- DEPURATIONThe removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
- DERAIGNTo prove or refute, especially through combat.
- DERIVATIZETo prepare one or more derivatives of a compound
- DESACRALIZETo remove the sacredness of.
- DESCRIVETo describe.
- DESCRYTo announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
- DESPICABLEFit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
- DESPOLIATIONA stripping or plundering; spoliation.
- DESPUMATETo skim the froth or other impurities from a liquid, to clarify, purify.
- DESPUMATINGpresent participle and gerund of despumate
- DESPUMATIONThe act of giving off froth or scum.
- DESYATINAlternative form of dessiatina.
- DEUCESplural of deuce
- DEUTERICOf or pertaining to reactions of liquids derived from magma with the solidified rock from the same magma.
- DEUTOPLASMThe food matter located in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance.
- DIACTINALHaving two rays.
- DIANOETICPertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual.
- DIAPHANEITYtransparency
- DIAPHANOUSTransparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
- DIAPHANOUSLYIn a diaphanous manner.
- DIAPHONICOf or pertaining to diaphony.
- DIAPHONYA form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves.
- DIATHERMANCYThe condition or degree of being diathermic.
- DIATHERMANOUSHaving the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal.
- DIATHERMOUSFreely permeable by radiant heat.
- DICHOGAMOUSExhibiting dichogamy.
- DICHOGAMYThe condition in which an organism changes sex during its lifetime.
- DIEGESISA narration or recitation.
- DIGONEUTICHaving two broods per season.
- DIGONEUTISMThe quality of being digoneutic.
- DIMISSORYGranting permission to be ordained.
- DIPLONEMAThe diplotene stage of meiosis.
- DIPLONEMASplural of diplonema
- DIPTYCHA writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
- DISAVOUCHTo disavow.
- DISAVOWALA denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.
- DISBOWELINGpresent participle and gerund of disbowel
- DISCERPTo tear into pieces; to rend.
- DISCERPIBLECapable of being discerped.
- DISCERPTIONThe act of pulling or tearing something to pieces
- DISCERPTIVETending to separate or disunite parts.
- DISCOPHORAN
- DISCOVERTAn uncovered place or part.
- DISCREPANTShowing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
- DISCUMBERTo disencumber.
- DISEMBOGUETo come out into the open sea from a river etc.
- DISEMVOWELTo remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words.
- DISENABLETo disable (render unable)
- DISENTAILTo free from entailment.
- DISENTHRALAlternative spelling of disenthrall.
- DISENTRAILTo pull (something) out of the entrails.
- DISFAVORINGpresent participle and gerund of disfavor
- DISINTHRALAlternative spelling of disenthrall.
- DISLOIGN
- DISPARAGEInequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
- DISPARTEDsimple past and past participle of dispart
- DISPLACEMENTThe act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- DISPURVEYTo strip of provisions; to disfurnish.
- DISTICHALdistichous
- DISTINGUEFashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
- DISTRAINEEOne who is distrained.
- DISYOKINGpresent participle and gerund of disyoke
- DITROCHEANConsisting of two trochees.
- DIVERTICULUMA small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
- DIVULGATEROne who divulges.
- DIVULGATORAlternative spelling of divulgater.
- DOLORIFICOf or relating to pain.
- DOLPHINETA female dolphin.
- DOMICILArchaic form of domicile.
- DRACONITESplural of draconite
- DRAUGHTSMENplural of draughtsman
- DREPANIDAny moth in the family Drepanidae.
- DREPANIDSplural of drepanid
- DRONKLAP
- DRONKLAPS
- DUBITANCYDoubt; uncertainty.
- EARLIESPotatoes that are harvested before the main crop.
- EDULCORATEDsimple past and past participle of edulcorate
- EDULCORATESthird-person singular simple present indicative of edulcorate
- EDULCORATINGpresent participle and gerund of edulcorate
- EDULCORATIONA sweetening.
- EIDOGRAPHSplural of eidograph
- EMBRYULCIAThe forcible extraction of the fetus.
- EMPAESTICEmbossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.
- EMPIRICALPertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
- ENARGITESplural of enargite
- ENCAMPTo establish a camp or temporary shelter.
- ENDOBLASTICSynonym of entoblastic (“of or relating to the entoblast”).
- ENDOGAMICendogamous
- ENDOPLASTICSynonym of endoplasmic.
- ENDOSTEALOf or pertaining to the endosteum.
- ENSILAGEThe process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder.
- ENSILAGEDsimple past and past participle of ensilage
- ENTHRALDOMAlternative form of enthralldom.
- ENTHRALDOMSplural of enthraldom
- ENTRYISMA political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectab
- EPICUREANISMAlternative letter-case form of Epicureanism (general pursuit of pleasure).
- EPIGNATHOUShook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower one
- ERETHISMAbnormal excitement of a bodily organ or tissue.