| delavirdine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Rescriptor) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Rescriptor |
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| delay | (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: holdup |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: hold, postponement, time lag, wait |
| delayer | (noun) a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late | - |
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| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
| deletion | (noun) the act of deleting something written or printed | - |
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| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, excision |
| (noun) (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome | - |
| (noun) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | Synonyms: omission |
| delf | (noun) an excavation; usually a quarry or mine | - |
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| delft | (noun) a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration | - |
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| deli | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen, food shop |
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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 |
| deliberation | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberateness |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, slowness, unhurriedness |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: calculation |
| (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, weighing |
| (noun) (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question | - |
| delicacy | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: daintiness, fineness |
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| (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse |
| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: fragility |
| (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: slightness |
| (noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: airiness |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: discretion |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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| delineation | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal |
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| (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: depiction, limning, line drawing |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| delinquency | (noun) an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor | Synonyms: juvenile delinquency |
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| (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: dereliction, willful neglect |
| (noun) nonpayment of a debt when due | - |
| delinquent | (noun) a young offender | Synonyms: juvenile delinquent |
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| deliquium | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: faint, swoon, syncope |
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| delirium | (noun) a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations | - |
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| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| deliverable | (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
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| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| dell | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dingle |
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| delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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| delta | (noun) the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water | - |
| (noun) an object shaped like an equilateral triangle | - |
| deltoid | (noun) a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm | Synonyms: deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus |
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| deluge | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, flood, inundation |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: flood, inundation, torrent |
| delusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: head game, illusion |
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| (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: hallucination |
| (noun) (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary | Synonyms: psychotic belief |
| demagnetisation | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetization |
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| demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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| demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demagogy | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagoguery |
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| demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
| (noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
| (noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| demantoid | (noun) a green andradite used as a gemstone | - |
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| demarcation | (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, dividing line, line |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation line, limit |
| demarche | (noun) a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs | - |
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| demeanor | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment |
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| demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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| dementedness | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementia |
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| dementia | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementedness |
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| demerara | (noun) light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara sugar |
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| (noun) dark rum from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara rum |
| (noun) a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana | - |
| demerit | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: fault |
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| (noun) a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces | - |
| demesne | (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: domain, land |
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| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, estate, land, landed estate |
| demiglace | (noun) sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry | Synonyms: demi-glaze |
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| demigod | (noun) a person who is part mortal and part god | Synonyms: daemon |
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| (noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: superman, Ubermensch |
| demijohn | (noun) large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork | - |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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| demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
| 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 |
| demise | (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, dying |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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| demo | (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demonstration |
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| demobilisation | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilization |
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| demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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| democracy | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | Synonyms: majority rule |
| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, republic |
| democrat | (noun) an advocate of democratic principles | - |
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| democratisation | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratization |
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| democratism | (noun) the theory, system, or principles of democracy. | - |
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| democratization | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratisation |
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| demodulation | (noun) (electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave | - |
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| demodulator | (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: detector |
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| demographer | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographist, population scientist |
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| demographic | (noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) | - |
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| demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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| demography | (noun) the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | Synonyms: human ecology |
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| demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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| (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| demolition | (noun) the act of demolishing | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: destruction, wipeout |
| demon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, devil, fiend |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: devil, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) someone extremely diligent or skillful | - |
| demonetisation | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetization |
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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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| demoniac | (noun) someone who acts as if possessed by a demon | - |
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| demonisation | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonization |
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| demonism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism |
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| demonization | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonisation |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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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 | - |
| demoralisation | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralization |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralization |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralization |
| 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 |
| demotion | (noun) act of lowering in rank or position | - |
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