| archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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| archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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| bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
| deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| dead | (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
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| (noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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| deadening | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
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| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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| deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| deadness | (noun) the inanimate property of something that has died | - |
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| (noun) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | - |
| (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: unresponsiveness |
| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| deaf | (noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
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| deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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| deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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| (noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
| (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
| (noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
| (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
| (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
| deamination | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deaminization |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
| (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| dear | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: lamb |
| dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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| dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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| (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
| (noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
| (noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
| (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| endeavor | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavour, enterprise |
| endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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| (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| hideaway | (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: retreat |
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| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideout |
| idea | (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: thought |
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| (noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, estimation |
| (noun) a personal view | - |
| (noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: melodic theme, musical theme, theme |
| ideal | (noun) the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain | - |
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| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
| idealisation | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealization |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealization |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealization |
| idealism | (noun) impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are | - |
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| (noun) elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued | Synonyms: high-mindedness, noble-mindedness |
| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality | - |
| idealist | (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: dreamer |
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| ideality | (noun) the quality of being ideal | - |
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| idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
| idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| ideation | (noun) the process of forming and relating ideas | - |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| misdeal | (noun) an incorrect deal | - |
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| newsdealer | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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| ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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| (noun) a severe or trying experience | - |
| percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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| proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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| rondeau | (noun) a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas | Synonyms: rondel |
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| (noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | Synonyms: rondo |
| sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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| subdeacon | (noun) a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | - |
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