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- DEVISETo use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
- DEVOIRDuty, business; something that one must do.
- DEVOLUTIONA rolling down.
- DEVOTEto give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter; to consecrate.
- DEVOTIONThe act or state of devoting or being devoted; a feeling of being devoted (to something).
- DEVOURTo eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
- DEVOUTDevoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.
- DEXTERRight; on the right-hand side.
- DEXTEROUSSkillful with one's hands.
- DIABOLOGYThe study of the Devil in religion.
- DIACONALOf or pertaining to a deacon or the diaconate.
- DIALA graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
- DIAMETRALOf, relating to, or measured across a diameter.
- DIAPERAn absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, by an adult who is inconti
- DIAPHANEITYtransparency
- DIARYA daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
- DIASTEMIntervening space; interval.
- DICKERTo bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.
- DICTA saying; a statement.
- DICTATEAn order or command.
- DICTATIONDictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
- DICTATORAn authoritarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
- DICTATORYExessively strict.
- DICTATUREOffice of a dictator; dictatorship.
- DICTIONARYA reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each term's meanings or senses, often also containing information on
- DICTUMAn authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- DIELHaving a 24-hour period regardless of day or night.
- DIETARYA regulated diet that excludes or constrains certain types of food, especially for health reasons; also, a book or similar setting out such regulations.
- DIFFERENTNot the same; exhibiting a difference.
- DIFFERENTIALOf or pertaining to a difference.
- DIFFICULTYThe state of being difficult, or hard to do.
- DIFFRACTTo cause diffraction
- DIFFUSETo spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- DIGASTRICHaving two bellies.
- DIGESTTo distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- DIGESTIVEOf, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
- DIGITA position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system.
- DIGITALHaving to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
- DIGITATEHaving digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
- DIGNIFYTo invest with dignity or honour.
- DIGRESSIONAn aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
- DIKTATA dogmatic decree or command, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent.
- DILATETo enlarge; to make bigger.
- DILATORYIntentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or adjourn decision.
- DILETTANTEAn amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
- DILIGENCESteady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- DILIGENTPerforming with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.
- DILUENTThat which dilutes.
- DILUTETo make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
- DILUVIANPertaining to a deluge, or flood.
- DILUVIUMAn inundation or flood; a deluge.
- DIMEA coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
- DIMISSORYGranting permission to be ordained.
- DINARThe official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.
- DINETo eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- DINGUSA gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor.
- DIPLOMACYThe art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes internat
- DIPLOMATICConcerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
- DIPLOMATICSThe science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
- DIREWarning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- DIRECTProceeding without deviation or interruption.
- DIRECTIONA theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north),
- DIREMPTDistinct; separate; secrete; divided.
- DIREMPTIONA ripping apart; a forceful sundering.
- DIRGEA mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.
- DIRIGEA Roman Catholic service for the dead, being the first antiphon of matins for the dead, of which dirige is the first word; a dirge.
- DIRIGENTSomething that or someone who directs; a director or guide.
- DISCANTAlternative form of descant.
- DISCANTERSAlternative form of descant.
- DISCARNATEStripped of flesh.
- DISCEPTTo debate; to discuss.
- DISCERNTo detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
- DISCERNIBLEPossible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.
- DISCERPTo tear into pieces; to rend.
- DISCHARGETo accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- DISCIplural of discus
- DISCIPLEA person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
- DISCOMFITTo embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
- DISCONSOLATECheerless, dreary.
- DISCOUNTTo sell at a reduced price.
- DISCOVERTo find or learn something for the first time.
- DISCREETRespectful of privacy or secrecy; exercising caution in order to avoid causing embarrassment; quiet; diplomatic.
- DISCREPANTShowing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
- DISCRETESeparate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.
- DISCRETIONThe quality of being discreet.
- DISCULPATETo free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exonerate.
- DISCURSIONThe action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.
- DISCUTIENTServing to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
- DISGUISEMaterial (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- DISHERITTo disinherit.
- DISJECTTo break apart; separate
- DISJOINTo separate; to disunite.
- DISJOINTNot smooth or continuous; disjointed.
- DISJUNCTSeparate; discontinuous; not connected.
- DISJUNCTIVENot connected; separated.
- DISLOCATIONThe act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
- DISMALDisastrous, calamitous.
- DISMEA dime minted in 1792.
- DISPARITYThe state of being unequal; difference.
- DISPARTTo part, separate.