| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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| (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |
| decentration | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentering |
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| defenestration | (noun) the act of throwing someone or something out of a window | - |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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| detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) | - |
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| (noun) a petty disparagement | Synonyms: petty criticism |
| detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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| dextrality | (noun) preference for using the right hand | Synonyms: right-handedness |
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| distraction | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: beguilement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: misdirection |
| (noun) mental turmoil | - |
| (noun) an obstacle to attention | - |
| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| dustrag | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, duster |
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| entrails | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: innards, insides, viscera |
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| entrance | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entranceway, entree, entry, entryway |
| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entering |
| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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| entrant | (noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise | - |
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| (noun) one who enters a competition | - |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| (noun) someone who enters | - |
| entrapment | (noun) a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials | - |
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| estradiol | (noun) the most powerful female hormone that occurs naturally; synthesized and used to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer | Synonyms: oestradiol |
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| estragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: tarragon |
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| (noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, tarragon |
| estrangement | (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, disaffection |
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| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: alienation |
| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| extra | (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (noun) an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis) | - |
| (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: spear carrier, supernumerary |
| extract | (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection |
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| (noun) a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) | Synonyms: infusion |
| extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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| extraction | (noun) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force) | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, origin |
| (noun) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means | - |
| extractivity | (noun) the amount of extract that grains of malt yield. | - |
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| extractor | (noun) an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components | - |
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| (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: centrifuge, separator |
| (noun) a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector | Synonyms: cartridge extractor, cartridge remover |
| extradition | (noun) the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) | - |
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| extrados | (noun) the exterior curve of an arch | - |
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| extraneity | (noun) The state of not forming an essential or vital part. | Synonyms: extraneousness |
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| extraneousness | (noun) The state of not forming an essential or vital part. | Synonyms: extraneity |
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| (noun) unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand | - |
| extraordinariness | (noun) the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered | - |
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| extrapolation | (noun) (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values | - |
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| (noun) an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations | - |
| extrasystole | (noun) a premature systole resulting in a momentary cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| extraterrestrial | (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
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| extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
| (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
| extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extravert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
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| eyestrain | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: asthenopia |
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| fenestra | (noun) a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear) | - |
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| fenestration | (noun) surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of windows in a building | - |
| filtrate | (noun) the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter | - |
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| filtration | (noun) the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium | - |
| firetrap | (noun) a building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire | - |
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| flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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| flytrap | (noun) a trap for catching flies | - |
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| footrace | (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, run |
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| frustration | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, thwarting |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: defeat |
| (noun) a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized | - |
| gastralgia | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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| geostrategy | (noun) the branch of geopolitics dealing with strategy | - |
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| gyromitra | (noun) any fungus of the genus Gyromitra | - |
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| haematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: hematocolpometra |
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| hatrack | (noun) a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats | Synonyms: coat rack, coatrack |
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| hematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: haematocolpometra |
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| heterostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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| hydroxytetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: oxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin |
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| icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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| illustration | (noun) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand | - |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, instance, representative |
| (noun) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive | - |
| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: exemplification |
| illustrator | (noun) an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) | - |
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| impenetrability | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: imperviousness |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrableness |
| impenetrableness | (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| infiltration | (noun) a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection) | - |
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| (noun) the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium | Synonyms: percolation |
| infiltrator | (noun) an intruder (as troops) with hostile intent | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage | - |
| interpenetration | (noun) mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other | Synonyms: permeation |
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| (noun) the action of penetrating between or among | - |
| intractability | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractableness |
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| intractableness | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractability |
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| intrados | (noun) the interior curve of an arch | - |
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| intranet | (noun) a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software | - |
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| intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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| intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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| intransitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
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| intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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| intransitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitiveness |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| itraconazole | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Sporanox |
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| jackstraw | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: spillikin |
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| jackstraws | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: spillikins |
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| jockstrap | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, supporter, suspensor |
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| kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
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| laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| mantra | (noun) (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns | - |
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| (noun) a commonly repeated word or phrase | - |
| mantrap | (noun) a trap for catching trespassers | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| mestranol | (noun) a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives | - |
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| metralgia | (noun) pain in the uterus | - |
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| ministrant | (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
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| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| mistral | (noun) a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter | - |
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