Select a letter for some words
Daily
Every day; day by day; .
Damask
To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: with flowers and rich designs, as silk; with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or water, as metal. See .
Damnatory
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Datiscin
A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp ().
Debauchedness
The state of being debauched; intemperance.
Debellation
The act of conquering or subduing.
Dedition
The act of yielding; surrender.
Deforce
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.
Delirium
A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from , or madness.
Demander
One who demands.
Demideify
To deify in part.
Dentinal
Of or pertaining to dentine.
Denunciatory
Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; .
Depender
One who depends; a dependent.
Dephase
To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.
Deport
Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment.
Dermal
Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; .
Dermatography
An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.
Despondingly
In a desponding manner.
Despotism
The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
detailed
Developed or executed with care and in minute detail; .
Detain
Detention.
Detect
To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light;
Detecter
One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
Devanagari
The script or characters in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written.
Dichlamydeous
Having two coverings, a calyx and a corolla.
Dichloride
Same as .
Dictatorship
The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.
Dietical
Dietetic.
digit
One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
Dimple
To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
Dint
To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
Dioxide
An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.
Diptote
A noun which has only two cases.
Direptitiously
With plundering violence; by violent injustice.
Disbandment
The act of disbanding.
Disbodied
Disembodied.
Discernible
Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding;
Discernibleness
The quality of being discernible.
Discoidal
Disk-shaped; discoid.
Discomposed
Disordered; disturbed; disquieted.
Disconsolated
Disconsolate.
Discriminative
Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.
discussant
a participant in a discussion, especially a member of a panel.
Disenthrall
To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.
Disert
Eloquent.
Dishearten
To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
disheartened
made less hopeful or enthusiastic; .
dishrag
a cloth for washing dishes.
disklike
resembling a disk in shape; circular and having a height considerably smaller than the diameter.
Disperser
One that disperses.
Disproval
Act of disproving; disproof.
disray
; -- an obsolete variant.
Dissever
To part; to separate.
Dition
Dominion; rule.
Diversiform
Of a different form; of varied forms.
Dividant
Different; distinct.
Dividually
By dividing.
Dogger
A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
Doncella
A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (). The name is applied also to the ladyfish () of the same region.
Door
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
Dorsad
Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
dosimeter
a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles.
Double-eyed
Having a deceitful look.
Downcome
Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
Downstroke
A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
Draine
The missel thrush.
Draugh
See .
Dripple
Weak or rare.
drop-off
a noticeable decline in performance; .
drugged
under the influence of narcotics or hypnotic drugs.
Druidess
A female Druid; a prophetess.
Due
Directly; exactly; .
Durene
A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, , off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
Dwindle
To make less; to bring low.