| discussion | (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: give-and-take, word |
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| (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, treatment |
| disgust | (noun) strong feelings of dislike | - |
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| disgustingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| (noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unsavoriness |
| disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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| disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| distrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion |
| distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| disuse | (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: neglect |
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| doghouse | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, kennel |
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| (noun) an idiomatic term for being in disfavor | - |
| dollhouse | (noun) a small model of a house used as a toy by children | Synonyms: doll's house |
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| (noun) a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything | Synonyms: doll's house |
| dominus | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominie |
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| doofus | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, half-wit, nitwit |
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| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| dosshouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: flophouse |
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| dousing | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: ducking, immersion, submersion |
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| drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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| dubiousness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, question |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, incertitude, uncertainty |
| ductulus | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductule |
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| dusk | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
| dust | (noun) fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, junk, rubble |
| (noun) free microscopic particles of solid material | - |
| dustbin | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, ashcan, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can, wastebin |
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| dustcart | (noun) a truck for collecting domestic refuse | Synonyms: garbage truck |
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| dustcloth | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: duster, dustrag |
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| duster | (noun) a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter | - |
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| (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, gabardine, gaberdine, smock |
| (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, dustrag |
| (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, sandstorm, sirocco |
| dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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| dustman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector |
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| dustmop | (noun) a dry swab for dusting floors | Synonyms: dry mop, dust mop |
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| dustpan | (noun) a short-handled receptacle into which dust can be swept | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpanful |
| dustpanful | (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpan |
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| dustrag | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, duster |
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| dustup | (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle |
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| echinocactus | (noun) any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil | Synonyms: barrel cactus |
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| echinococcus | (noun) tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals | - |
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| echinus | (noun) ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column | - |
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| echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| efficaciousness | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficacy |
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| effusion | (noun) flow under pressure | - |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, gush, outburst |
| effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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| electrophorus | (noun) a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity | - |
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| elusion | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, slip |
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| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| embolus | (noun) an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
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| emeritus | (noun) a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties | - |
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| encaustic | (noun) a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
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| encrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: incrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, incrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: incrustation |
| enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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| enthusiasm | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: ebullience, exuberance |
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| (noun) a lively interest | - |
| (noun) a feeling of excitement | - |
| enthusiast | (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: partisan, partizan |
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| (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: fancier |
| enviousness | (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: envy |
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| eohippus | (noun) earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal | Synonyms: dawn horse |
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| epicanthus | (noun) a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome | Synonyms: epicanthic fold |
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| eptatretus | (noun) a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus | - |
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| erroneousness | (noun) inadvertent incorrectness | Synonyms: error |
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| esophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: gorge, gullet, oesophagus |
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| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| estrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: heat, oestrus, rut |
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| eucalyptus | (noun) a tree of the genus Eucalyptus | Synonyms: eucalypt, eucalyptus tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber | - |
| eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| exclusion | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, riddance |
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| (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: elision, exception |
| (noun) the state of being excluded | - |
| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, excommunication |
| exclusive | (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
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| exclusiveness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, cliquishness |
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| excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
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| excuse | (noun) a poor example | Synonyms: apology |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, exculpation, self-justification |
| (noun) a note explaining an absence | - |
| excuser | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: forgiver, pardoner |
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| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
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| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| exhaustion | (noun) the act of exhausting something entirely | - |
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| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement |
| (noun) extreme fatigue | - |
| exodus | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: hegira, hejira |
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| expeditiousness | (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expedition |
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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 | - |
| extrusion | (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: expulsion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| facetiousness | (noun) playful humor | - |
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| fallaciousness | (noun) result of a fallacy or error in reasoning | - |
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| famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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| farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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| fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| fastidiousness | (noun) the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style | - |
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| fatuousness | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuity, silliness |
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| favus | (noun) a contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East | - |
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| felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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| feloniousness | (noun) The property of relating to, or having the nature of a serious criminal offense. | - |
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| fergusonite | (noun) a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals | - |
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| ferociousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, savagery, viciousness |
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| fetterbush | (noun) showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel | Synonyms: fetter bush, Lyonia lucida, shiny lyonia |
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| (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: mountain andromeda, mountain fetterbush, Pieris floribunda |
| fetus | (noun) an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal | Synonyms: foetus |
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| fibrousness | (noun) the quality of being fibrous | Synonyms: fibrosity |
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| fieldmouse | (noun) any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| filibuster | (noun) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | - |
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| (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibusterer |
| filibusterer | (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibuster |
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| filovirus | (noun) animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae | - |
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| firehouse | (noun) a station housing fire apparatus and firemen | Synonyms: fire station |
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| flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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| flatus | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, wind |
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| flavivirus | (noun) animal viruses belonging to the family Flaviviridae | - |
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| flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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