| crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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| crystallization | (noun) a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation | - |
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| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystal |
| (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallizing |
| crystallizing | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization |
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| cyclobenzaprine | (noun) muscle relaxant (trade name Flexeril) used for muscle spasms or acute injury | Synonyms: Flexeril |
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| czar | (noun) a person having great power | - |
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| (noun) a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | Synonyms: tsar, tzar |
| czardas | (noun) a piece of music composed for the Hungarian Csárdás dance. | Synonyms: csardas |
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| (noun) a piece of music in the rhythm of the Hungarian Csárdás dance. | Synonyms: csardas |
| czarina | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czaritza, tsarina, tsaritsa, tzarina |
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| czaritza | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, tsarina, tsaritsa, tzarina |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| daminozide | (noun) a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time | Synonyms: Alar |
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| damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| daze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: fog, haze |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: shock, stupor |
| dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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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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| 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 |
| decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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| demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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| demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
| demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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| democratization | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratisation |
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| demonetization | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetisation |
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| demonization | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonisation |
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| demoralization | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralisation |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| demythologization | (noun) the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms | Synonyms: demythologisation |
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| denationalization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, privatisation, privatization |
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| denazification | (noun) social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism | Synonyms: de-Nazification |
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| denizen | (noun) a plant or animal naturalized in a region | - |
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| (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
| depersonalization | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalisation |
| depolarization | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarisation |
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| desalinization | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalination, desalinisation |
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| desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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| destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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| (noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
| destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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| desynchronization | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronizing |
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| desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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| detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
| deutzia | (noun) any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters | - |
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| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| diagonalization | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalisation |
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| dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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| diazepam | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | Synonyms: Valium |
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| diazonium | (noun) the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes | - |
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| diazoxide | (noun) vasodilator (trade name Hyperstat) used to treat severe hypertension | Synonyms: Hyperstat |
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| dichotomization | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomisation |
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| digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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| digitization | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitisation |
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| digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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| diltiazem | (noun) a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure | Synonyms: Cardizem |
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| disorganization | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganisation |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganisation |
| dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| doxazosin | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Cardura) that works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood passes through them more easily; it is also used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia | Synonyms: Cardura |
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| doze | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: drowse |
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| dozen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, twelve, XII |
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| dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| dozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: bulldozer |
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| dramatization | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatisation |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatisation |
| drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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| dyschezia | (noun) difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) | - |
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| dziggetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: chigetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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| economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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| ectozoan | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| eczema | (noun) generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages | - |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| endozoan | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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| energizer | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energiser |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| energizing | (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, activation |
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| enthronization | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, investiture |
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| entozoan | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
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| entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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| enzyme | (noun) any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions | - |
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| enzymologist | (noun) a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology | - |
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| enzymology | (noun) the branch of biochemistry dealing with the chemical nature and biological activity of enzymes | - |
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| epizoan | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoon |
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| epizoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan |
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| equalization | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, leveling |
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| equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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| (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
| ersatz | (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
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| estazolam | (noun) a frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom) | Synonyms: ProSom |
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| etymologizing | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, deriving |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| exteriorization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, externalisation, externalization |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| ezed | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: izzard, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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| familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| fertilization | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilisation |
| fertilizer | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertiliser, plant food |
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