disarrangement | (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disorganisation, disorganization |
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disbandment | (noun) the act of disbanding | - |
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disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
discant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: descant |
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discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
(noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
(noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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(noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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disconnect | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnection, gulf |
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discontent | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontentedness, discontentment |
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discontentment | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentedness |
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discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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(noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
(noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
(noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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(noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |
discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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disenchantment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disillusion, disillusionment |
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disenfranchisement | (noun) the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise | - |
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disengagement | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: fallback, pullout |
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(noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: detachment |
disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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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 |
disfranchisement | (noun) the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote | - |
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disgorgement | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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disgruntlement | (noun) a feeling of sulky discontent | - |
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disgust | (noun) strong feelings of dislike | - |
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disheartenment | (noun) a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted | - |
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(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, dismay |
disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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disinfectant | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
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disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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(noun) lack of interest | - |
disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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dislodgement | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgment |
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dislodgment | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgement |
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dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
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dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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disownment | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disowning |
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disparagement | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: dispraise |
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(noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, derogation |
displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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(noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
(noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
(noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
(noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
(noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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disquiet | (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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(noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: anxiousness |
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 |
dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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(noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
(noun) a difference of opinion | - |
dissident | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, objector, protester |
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dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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distillment | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillation |
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distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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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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district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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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 |
dit | (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dot |
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(noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, Hart, hartley |
diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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divorcement | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorce |
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divot | (noun) a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) | - |
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(noun) (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke | - |
divulgement | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgence |
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docent | (noun) a teacher at some universities | - |
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docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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(noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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(noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
(noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
(noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
dogcart | (noun) a cart drawn by a dog | - |
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dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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(noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
(noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
(noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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dogshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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dogtrot | (noun) a steady trot like that of a dog | - |
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dolt | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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dominant | (noun) an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different | Synonyms: dominant allele |
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(noun) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | - |
donut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: doughnut, sinker |
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doormat | (noun) a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering | Synonyms: welcome mat |
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(noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: weakling, wuss |
doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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dot | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
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(noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dit |
(noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: point |
doublet | (noun) a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance | - |
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doubt | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiousness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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downcast | (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
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downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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(noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
draft | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draught, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draught, gulp, swig |
(noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) a preliminary sketch of a design or picture | Synonyms: rough drawing |
(noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace | - |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) any of the various versions in the development of a written work | Synonyms: draft copy |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draught, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draught |
(noun) a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another | Synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment |
dragnet | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: trawl, trawl net |
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(noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals) | - |
dragonet | (noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | - |
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dramatist | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: playwright |
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draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
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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driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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(noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
(noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
(noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
(noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
(noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
(noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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droplet | (noun) a tiny drop | - |
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dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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(noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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(noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
drugget | (noun) a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling | - |
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druggist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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(noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
(noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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ducat | (noun) formerly a gold coin of various European countries | - |
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duct | (noun) an enclosed conduit for a fluid | - |
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(noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, channel, epithelial duct |
(noun) a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls | - |
duelist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, dueller, duellist |
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