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- DESILVERTo remove the silver from (an alloy).
- DESIPIENCEsilliness, folly
- DESIPIENTfoolish; silly
- DESIPRAMINEA tricyclic antidepressant C18H22N2.
- DESIRABLEWorthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.
- DESIRABLYin a manner likely to arouse desire
- DESIRETo want; to wish for earnestly.
- DESIROUSFeeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
- DESIROUSLYWith desire; eagerly
- DESISTTo cease to proceed or act; to stop .
- DESISTANCEThe act or state of desisting; cessation.
- DESKA table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository under
- DESKMANA subeditor.
- DESKTOPThe top surface of a desk.
- DESMANEither of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semiaquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe.
- DESMINEThe mineral stilbite.
- DESOLATEDeserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- DESOLATEROne who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- DESOLATIONThe act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
- DESOLATORYCausing desolation.
- DESPAIRTo give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- DESPAIRFULCharacterised by despair; hopeless.
- DESPAIRINGFeeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
- DESPAIRINGLYIn a despairing manner.
- DESPATCHERAlternative form of dispatcher.
- DESPERATEIn dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- DESPERATELYIn a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
- DESPERATIONThe act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
- DESPICABLEFit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
- DESPICABLYIn a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly
- DESPITEIn spite of, notwithstanding.
- DESPITEFULFull of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
- DESPOILTo plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
- DESPOILEROne who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
- DESPOILMENTThe act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- DESPOLIATIONA stripping or plundering; spoliation.
- DESPOTA ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
- DESPOTATEAn area ruled by a despot (δεσπότης) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).
- DESPOTICOf or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
- DESPOTICALDespotic.
- DESPUMATETo skim the froth or other impurities from a liquid, to clarify, purify.
- DESPUMATIONThe act of giving off froth or scum.
- DESQUAMATETo remove the scales from, to scale; (less narrowly) to peel.
- DESQUAMATIONThe shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
- DESTABILISETo make something unstable.
- DESTABILIZETo make something unstable.
- DESTAINTo remove a chemical stain from.
- DESTINETo preordain.
- DESTINYThat to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined or inevitable eventual state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
- DESTITUTELacking something; devoid.
- DESTITUTIONThe action of deserting or abandoning.
- DESTOCKTo reduce the amount of stock held (by a retail establishment)
- DESTRIERA large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight.
- DESTROYTo damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- DESTROYABLEAble to be destroyed.
- DESTRUCTTo intentionally cause the destruction of.
- DESTRUCTIONThe act of destroying.
- DESTRUCTIVECausing destruction; damaging.
- DESTRUCTIVELYin a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction
- DESTRUCTIVITYdestructiveness
- DESUGARTo remove sugar from.
- DESULFURto remove the sulfur from something (such as petroleum or flue gases)
- DESULFURIZATIONThe process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- DESULFURIZETo remove the sulfur from something (such as petroleum or flue gases).
- DESULTORYJumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.
- DETACHTo take apart from; to take off.
- DETACHABLEDesigned to be unfastened or disconnected without damage.
- DETACHABLYIn such a way that it can be detached.
- DETACHEROne who or that which detaches.
- DETACHMENTThe action of detaching; separation.
- DETAILA part small enough to escape casual notice.
- DETAILEROne who gives details of something.
- DETAINTo keep something from proceeding or coming to completion; to delay.
- DETAINABLECapable of being detained.
- DETAINERThe right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.
- DETANGLETo disentangle, remove tangles from .
- DETANGLERA conditioner product for removing tangles from hair.
- DETECTTo discover or notice, especially by careful search, examination, or probing.
- DETECTABILITYThe state of being detectable.
- DETECTIONThe act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
- DETECTORISTA person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
- DETENTThat which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch (stopping mechanism), pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
- DETERTo prevent something from happening.
- DETERGENTAny non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant.
- DETERMINANTA determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- DETERMINATETo bring to an end; to determine.
- DETERMINATELYIn a way that is determinate
- DETERMINISMThe doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
- DETERMINISTAn advocate of determinism.
- DETERSIONThe act of deterging or cleansing.
- DETESTTo dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
- DETESTABLYIn a detestable manner.
- DETESTATIONHate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
- DETHRONETo depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
- DETHRONEROne who dethrones.
- DETICKto remove ticks (parasitic arachnids) from
- DETINUEA person or thing detained; a detainee.
- DETONATETo explode, blow up
- DETORSIONAlternative form of detortion.
- DETOURA diversion or deviation from one's original route.