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- DEBATEROne who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues.
- DEBATINGLYIn the manner of a debate, so as to debate.
- DEBAUCHAn individual act of debauchery.
- DEBAUCHEESomebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint.
- DEBAUCHERSomebody who debauches or corrupts others; a seducer.
- DEBAUCHERYAn excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous and immoral activities; involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
- DEBAUCHMENTThe act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- DEBEAKTo remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms.
- DEBELTo conquer.
- DEBILEWeak; feeble.
- DEBILITYA state of physical or mental weakness.
- DEBITIn bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
- DEBITORA debtor
- DEBONAIRGracious, courteous.
- DEBONAIRLYIn a debonair manner.
- DEBONETo remove the bones from.
- DEBONERA person who, or a machine which, debones (removes bones).
- DEBOUCHA narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
- DEBOUCHETo enter into battle.
- DEBOUCHMENTThe point of debouch of a watercourse
- DEBRIEFTo question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
- DEBRISRubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
- DEBSA debutante ball or debut.
- DEBTAn action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- DEBTORA person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
- DEBUNKTo discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something; to refute.
- DEBUNKERSomeone who debunks.
- DEBURAlternative form of deburr.
- DEBUSTo alight or get off a bus.
- DEBUSINGTo alight or get off a bus.
- DEBUTA performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
- DEBUTANTA person (especially a male) who débuts, or appears for the first time.
- DEBUTANTEA young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society.
- DEBYEThe CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10.
- DECADENTCharacterized by moral or cultural decline.
- DECAFThat has caffeine removed.
- DECAGONA polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
- DECAGRAMAn SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams. Symbol: dag
- DECALA design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.
- DECALITERUS spelling of decalitre.
- DECALITRETen litres. Symbol: daL
- DECALOGISTOne who explains the Decalogue.
- DECAMETERUS spelling of decametre.
- DECAMETREAn SI unit of length equal to 10 metres. Symbol: dam
- DECANALPertaining to a dean or deanery.
- DECANEAny of the 75 isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having the chemical formula C10H22
- DECANIOf the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
- DECANTTo pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.
- DECANTERA vessel for decanting liquor.
- DECAPSULATETo remove a capsule (especially from the kidney).
- DECARBTo decarboxylate.
- DECARBONATETo remove carbon dioxide from (something, especially a beverage).
- DECARBONISEAlternative form of decarbonize.
- DECARBONIZETo remove carbon from something. To clean hard sooty deposits from inside an internal combustion engine.
- DECARBOXYLASEAny enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a carboxyl group, effectively removing carbon dioxide from a compound.
- DECARBOXYLATETo remove one or more carboxyl groups from a molecule
- DECARBOXYLATIONThe removal of one or more carboxyl groups from a molecule
- DECAREA unit of surface area equal to 10 ares (that is, 1,000 square metres, 0.10 hectares, or approximately 0.25 acres)
- DECASTYLEA portico with ten columns.
- DECATHLONAn athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
- DECAYRot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- DECAYABLECapable of decaying; perishable.
- DECAYERThat which causes decay.
- DECAYINGpresent participle and gerund of decay
- DECEITAn act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- DECEITFULDeliberately misleading or cheating.
- DECEITFULLYin a deceitful manner
- DECEIVABLEAble to be deceived; gullible.
- DECEIVETo trick or mislead.
- DECEIVERA person who lies or deceives.
- DECEIVINGLYIn a deceiving manner.
- DECELERATETo reduce the velocity of something.
- DECELERATIONThe act or process of decelerating.
- DECEMVIRAny of two groups of 10 men selected in 451 and 450 B.C. to wield complete power over Rome and establish the laws of the Twelve Tables.
- DECEMVIRALPertaining to the decemvirs of ancient Rome.
- DECEMVIRATEA group of ten people, especially a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE.
- DECENCYThe quality of being decent; propriety.
- DECENNIUMSynonym of decade: a ten year period.
- DECENTAppropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
- DECENTLYIn a decent manner.
- DECEPTIONAn instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
- DECEPTIONALEmploying or relating to deception; deceptive.
- DECEPTIOUSdeceptive, tending to deceive.
- DECEPTIVELikely or attempting to deceive.
- DECEPTORYdeceptive
- DECERTIFYTo annul the certification of.
- DECESSIONdeparture; decrease
- DECHLORINATETo remove chlorine from something.
- DECIAREA measure of area, equivalent to one tenth of an are, or ten square metres.
- DECIBELA common measure of intensity ratio (e.g. for sound) that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = 10 log10(P1 / P2), where P1 and P2 are the
- DECIDETo resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
- DECIDERA person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
- DECIDUAA mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy.
- DECIDUATEHaving, or characterized by, a decidua.
- DECIGRAMAn SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams. Symbol: dg
- DECILEAny of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.
- DECILITERUS spelling of decilitre.
- DECILITREAn SI unit of fluid equal to 10 liters. Symbol: dl.
- DECILLION(US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10.
- DECILLIONTHThe ordinal form of the number decillion