| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
| disclosure | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: revealing, revelation |
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| discomfiture | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment |
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| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| discreetness | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, finesse |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discretion, prudence |
| discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
| discreteness | (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness, severalty |
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| discretion | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discernment |
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| (noun) the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies | Synonyms: free will |
| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, prudence |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: delicacy |
| (noun) freedom to act or judge on one's own | - |
| disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
| disforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: deforestation |
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| dishware | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: crockery |
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| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| displeasure | (noun) the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something | - |
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| disregard | (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: neglect |
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| (noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: neglect |
| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| disreputability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputableness, unrespectability |
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| disreputableness | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, unrespectability |
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| disrepute | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
| distress | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distraint |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: hurt, suffering |
| (noun) extreme physical pain | - |
| (noun) a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) | - |
| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| diuresis | (noun) increased secretion of urine; if not due to increased liquid intake or to the action of a diuretic drug it can be a symptom of diabetes mellitus | - |
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| diuretic | (noun) any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water | Synonyms: diuretic drug, water pill |
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| divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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| (noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
| doctrinaire | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
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| dodderer | (noun) one who dodders from old age and weakness | - |
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| doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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| dotrel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| doubletree | (noun) a crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast | - |
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| dread | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
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| dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| dream | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dreaming |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dreaming |
| (noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | Synonyms: pipe dream |
| (noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | - |
| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
| (noun) someone or something wonderful | - |
| dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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| (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
| (noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
| dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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| dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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| dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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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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| dreg | (noun) a small amount of residue | - |
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| dregs | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: settlings |
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| drekkar | (noun) a Viking longship, described in historical sources as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. | - |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| dress | (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: frock |
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| (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: attire, garb |
| (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, clothes, wearing apparel |
| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| drey | (noun) the nest of a squirrel | - |
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| drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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| duress | (noun) compulsory force or threat | - |
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| eagre | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eager, tidal bore |
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| earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| efferent | (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
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| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| egress | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egression, emergence |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: emergence, issue |
| egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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| egret | (noun) any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | - |
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| elaphure | (noun) large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds | Synonyms: Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer |
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| electrophoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis |
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| electroretinogram | (noun) a graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eye | - |
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| embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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| embroiderer | (noun) someone who ornaments with needlework | - |
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| embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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| emigre | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigree, outgoer |
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| emigree | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigre, outgoer |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| empyrean | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| enamelware | (noun) cooking utensil of enameled iron | - |
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| enamoredness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: amorousness |
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| enchantress | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: witch |
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| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, femme fatale, siren, temptress |
| enclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose | - |
| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: inclosure |
| (noun) a naturally enclosed space | Synonyms: natural enclosure |
| encolure | (noun) the mane of a horse | - |
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| encopresis | (noun) involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness | - |
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| encore | (noun) an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand | - |
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| endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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| endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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| enquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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