| dampness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, moistness |
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| dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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| dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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| das | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, dassie, hyrax |
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| dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| days | (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: years |
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| deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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| deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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| deadness | (noun) the inanimate property of something that has died | - |
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| (noun) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | - |
| (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: unresponsiveness |
| deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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| dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
| (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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| debris | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: detritus, dust, junk, rubble |
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| deceitfulness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful | - |
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| deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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| (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| decorousness | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorum |
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| decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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| deeds | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: works |
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| deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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| (noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
| (noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defencelessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defenselessness, unprotectedness |
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| defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| deftness | (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, facility, quickness |
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| defunctness | (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: extinction |
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| degras | (noun) a semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. | - |
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| deinocheirus | (noun) lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck | - |
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| deinonychus | (noun) swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot; of the Cretaceous | - |
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| deixis | (noun) the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs | - |
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| dejectedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| deliberateness | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberation |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberation, slowness, unhurriedness |
| deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| dementedness | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementia |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| demureness | (noun) the trait of behaving with reserve and decorum | - |
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| (noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: coyness |
| denseness | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: density |
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| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, density, tightness |
| (noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: dumbness, slow-wittedness |
| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| depths | (noun) (plural) the deepest and most remote part | - |
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| dermatitis | (noun) inflammation of the skin; skin becomes itchy and may develop blisters | - |
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| dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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| dermatomycosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatophytosis |
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| dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| dermatophytosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatomycosis |
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| dermatosclerosis | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: scleroderma |
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| dermatosis | (noun) disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation) | - |
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| dermis | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, derma |
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| derris | (noun) any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons | - |
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| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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| desirableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirability |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirability, oomph, sex appeal |
| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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| determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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| detritus | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble |
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| (noun) loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks | - |
| devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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| devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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| devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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| dewiness | (noun) The state or property of being covered by dew, or bearing droplets of water. | - |
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| diabetes | (noun) a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst | - |
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| diaeresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: dieresis |
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| diagnosis | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosing |
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| diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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| diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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| dialysis | (noun) separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
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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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| diaphoresis | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating |
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| diaphysis | (noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: shaft |
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| diarthrosis | (noun) a joint so articulated as to move freely | Synonyms: articulatio synovialis, synovial joint |
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| diastasis | (noun) separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone | - |
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| diathesis | (noun) constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality | - |
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| dibs | (noun) a claim of rights | - |
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| dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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| didactics | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| dielectrolysis | (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, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| dieresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: diaeresis |
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| diesis | (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a third cross reference or footnote after the asterisk and the dagger have been used | Synonyms: double dagger, double obelisk |
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| diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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| dietetics | (noun) the scientific study of food preparation and intake | - |
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| difficultness | (noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficulty |
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| diffuseness | (noun) the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume | - |
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| digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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| digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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| diggings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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| (noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: digs |
| digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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| (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| digs | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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| (noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: diggings |
| dilatoriness | (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: procrastination |
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