| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| decahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having ten plane faces | - |
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| deceased | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed |
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| decedent | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, departed |
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| dedication | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty |
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| (noun) complete and wholehearted fidelity | - |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: inscription |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: commitment |
| (noun) a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose | - |
| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| deed | (noun) something that people do or cause to happen | Synonyms: act, human action, human activity |
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| (noun) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | Synonyms: deed of conveyance, title |
| deedbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: strongbox |
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| deeds | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: works |
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| defeated | (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
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| dejectedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dementedness | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementia |
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| deoxyephedrine | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
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| departed | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent |
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| depredation | (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: predation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: ravage |
| devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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| diapedesis | (noun) passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue | - |
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| dicotyledon | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, exogen, magnoliopsid |
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| disabled | (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: handicapped |
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| discomfited | (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: defeated |
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| disconnectedness | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture |
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| discontentedness | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentment |
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| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| disjointedness | (noun) lacking order or coherence | - |
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| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dodecahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twelve plane faces | - |
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| doggedness | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| dogsled | (noun) a sled pulled by dogs | Synonyms: dog sled, dog sleigh |
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| doomed | (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: lost |
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| downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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| duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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| dukedom | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: duchy |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a duke | - |
| dyeweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| edacity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edda | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro, taro root |
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| eddo | (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro |
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| eddy | (noun) a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself | Synonyms: twist |
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| edelweiss | (noun) alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | Synonyms: Leontopodium alpinum |
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| edema | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, hydrops, oedema |
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| edentate | (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
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| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| edginess | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, inquietude, uneasiness |
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| edging | (noun) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) | - |
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| edibility | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibleness |
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| edible | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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| edibleness | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibility |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| edification | (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: sophistication |
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| edifice | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: building |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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| (noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
| (noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
| (noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| educatee | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: pupil, student |
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| education | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| (noun) the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: breeding, training |
| (noun) knowledge acquired by learning and instruction | - |
| (noun) the gradual process of acquiring knowledge | - |
| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| educator | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: pedagog, pedagogue |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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| elevated | (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
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| enamoredness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: amorousness |
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| encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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| encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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| encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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| encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| enlightened | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
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| ephedra | (noun) jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds | Synonyms: joint fir |
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| ephedrine | (noun) white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma | - |
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| ethanediol | (noun) a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent | Synonyms: ethylene glycol, glycol |
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| exceedance | (noun) (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | - |
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| expectedness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising | - |
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| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: commonness |
| expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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| (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
| expediency | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expedience |
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| expedient | (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
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| expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |
| expeditiousness | (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expedition |
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| eyedness | (noun) the property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim) | - |
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| eyedrop | (noun) a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists | Synonyms: eye-drop |
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| (noun) a drop from an eye dropper | Synonyms: eye-drop |
| ezed | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: izzard, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| fadedness | (noun) The quality of having lost some of a former colour or intensity. | - |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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