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  • DECILLIONTHadjective1 finderThe ordinal form of the number decillion
  • DECIMALnounLatin34 findersNATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for decimal point.
  • DECIMALISEverb1 finderNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of decimalize.
  • DECIMALLYadverb1 finderIn a decimal scheme or notation.
  • DECIMATEverbLatin62 findersTo kill one-tenth of (a group), as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
  • DECIMATIONnounLatin33 findersThe killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
  • DECIMATORnoun12 findersOne who decimates, particularly: A devastator or destroyer. A collector or receiver of tithes.
  • DECIMETERnounFrench4 findersUS spelling of decimetre.
  • DECIMETREnounFrench4 findersAn SI unit of length equal to 10 metres. Symbol: dm
  • DECINORMALadjective1 finderHaving a concentration one tenth that of a normal solution
  • DECIPHERverbLatin46 findersTo convert a code or cipher to plain text.
  • DECIPHERABLEadjective1 finderthat can be deciphered, understood or comprehended
  • DECISIONnounLatin17 findersThe act of deciding.
  • DECISIONALadjective3 findersOf or pertaining to decisions.
  • DECISIVEadjectiveMiddle French7 findersHaving the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
  • DECISIVELYadverb10 findersIn a decisive manner.
  • DECKnounProto-Germanic28 findersAny raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  • DECKERnoun15 findersOne who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer.
  • DECKHOUSEnoun11 findersA cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck.
  • DECKLEnounGerman69 findersA frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper.
  • DECLAIMverbLatin21 findersTo recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arg
  • DECLAIMERnoun5 findersOne who declaims.
  • DECLAMATIONnounLatin6 findersThe act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.
  • DECLAMATORYadjective9 findersHaving the quality of a declamation.
  • DECLARANTnounFrench4 findersA person who makes a formal declaration or statement
  • DECLARATIONnounLatin16 findersAn emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
  • DECLARATIVEadjectiveMiddle French9 findersServing to declare; having the quality of a declaration.
  • DECLAREverbLatin9 findersTo make clear, explain, interpret.
  • DECLARINGverbMiddle English6 finderspresent participle and gerund of declare
  • DECLAWverb20 findersTo surgically remove the claws of (an animal); to perform onychectomy on.
  • DECLINATEadjectiveLatin17 findersBent downward or aside.
  • DECLINATORnounFrench6 findersAn instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
  • DECLINATORYadjectiveLatin4 findersContaining or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
  • DECLINEnounProto-Indo-European8 finders: Downward movement, fall.
  • DECLINERnoun2 findersOne who declines.
  • DECLINISTnoun1 finderA subscriber to declinism.
  • DECLIVITOUSadjectiveLatin5 findersDescending gradually; sloping; downhill.
  • DECLIVITYnounProto-Indo-European25 findersThe downward slope of a curve.
  • DECLUTTERINGnoun9 findersThe act or process of removing clutter; tidying, removing unwanted or messy items from a given place.
  • DECOnoun19 findersDecompression.
  • DECOLLATIONnounLatin1 finderThe act of beheading someone.
  • DECOLONISEverb9 findersAlternative spelling of decolonize.
  • DECOLONIZEverb3 findersTo release from the status of colony; to allow a colony to become independent.
  • DECOLORANTnounFrench2 findersA substance that removes colour, or bleaches.
  • DECOLORATEverb1 finderTo decolor; to deprive of color.
  • DECOLORIZEverb2 findersTo remove the color from.
  • DECOLOURverb1 finderTo deprive of colour; to bleach.
  • DECOMPENSATEverb5 findersTo deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses.
  • DECOMPLEXadjective3 findersRepeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
  • DECOMPOSABILITYnoun15 findersThe condition of being decomposable
  • DECOMPOSABLEadjective5 findersAble to be decomposed
  • DECOMPOSEverbMiddle French14 findersTo separate or break down (something) into its components.
  • DECOMPOSERnoun12 findersA substance or an organism, such as a bacterium or fungus, which carries out the process of decomposition of organic material.
  • DECOMPOSITEadjective9 findersCompounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
  • DECONGESTverb10 findersTo free from congestion.
  • DECONTROLverb1 finderTo remove controls.
  • DECORnounFrench11 findersThe style of decoration of a room or building.
  • DECORATEverbLatin9 findersTo furnish with decorations.
  • DECORATIONnounLatin18 findersThe act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
  • DECORATIVEadjectiveLatin15 findersThat serves to decorate
  • DECORATIVELYadverb9 findersIn a decorative manner.
  • DECOROUSadjective39 findersMarked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards; becoming, seemly.
  • DECOROUSLYadverb27 findersIn a decorous manner.
  • DECORUMnounLatin85 findersAppropriate social behavior.
  • DECOUPAGEnounFrench149 findersAn art technique in which paper cutouts (either from magazines etc or specially made) are glued onto the surface of an object and sometimes painted or decorated.
  • DECOUPLEverbMiddle French23 findersTo unlink; to take apart or come apart.
  • DECOUPLERnoun16 findersThat which decouples.
  • DECOYnounDutch118 findersA person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
  • DECOYERnoun4 findersOne who decoys another.
  • DECREASINGadjective2 findersOn the decrease.
  • DECREASINGLYadverb7 findersIn a decreasing manner; progressively less.
  • DECREEABLEadjective1 finderCapable of being decreed.
  • DECREMENTnounLatin1 finderA small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.
  • DECREMENTALadjective2 findersPertaining to a decrement.
  • DECREPITadjectiveLatin103 findersWeakened or worn out from age or wear.
  • DECREPITATEverbLatin1 finderTo roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.
  • DECREPITLYadverb29 findersIn a decrepit way.
  • DECRETALadjectiveLatin7 findersPertaining to a decree.
  • DECRETALISTnoun1 finderA member of a 13th-century school of interpretation of canon law that emphasized the decretals (letters issued by the Popes on matters of church discipline) in preference to the De
  • DECRIALnoun2 findersa crying down
  • DECROWNverbFrench6 findersTo deprive of a crown; to discrown.
  • DECRYverbOld French70 findersTo denounce as harmful.
  • DECRYPTverbAncient Greek21 findersTo convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.
  • DECRYPTIONnounAncient Greek13 findersThe process reversing an encryption; the process which converts encrypted data into its original form.
  • DECUBITUSnounLatin6 findersThe posture of someone in bed, lying down or reclining.
  • DECUMANadjectiveLatin4 findersLarge; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
  • DECUMBENTadjectiveLatin4 findersLying down; reclining on the ground.
  • DECUMBITUREnounLatin4 findersThe fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.
  • DECUPLEadjectiveLatin5 findersTenfold.
  • DECURIONnounLatin13 findersAn officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army.
  • DECURRENTadjectiveLatin2 findersOf plant parts: extending downward, most often in the case of leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem.
  • DECURSIONnounLatin1 finderA flowing.
  • DECURVEverb1 finderTo remove a curve from.
  • DECURYnounLatin2 findersA group of ten men under the command of a decurion.
  • DECUSSATIONnounLatin1 finderA crossing or intersection of lines etc. so as to form an X-shape.
  • DEDUCEverbProto-Indo-European3 findersTo reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
  • DEDUCTverbLatin3 findersTo take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
  • DEEDnounProto-Indo-European1 finderAn action or act; something that is done.
  • DEEJAYnoun14 findersA disc jockey.
  • DEEKverbHindi17 findersTo look.

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