| deb | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: debutante |
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| debacle | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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| (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: fiasco |
| (noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | - |
| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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| debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
| debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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| debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| debenture | (noun) a certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt | - |
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| (noun) the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future | Synonyms: debenture bond, unsecured bond |
| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| debility | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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| debit | (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | Synonyms: debit entry |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| debridement | (noun) surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing | - |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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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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| debt | (noun) an obligation to pay or do something | - |
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| (noun) money or goods or services owed by one person to another | - |
| (noun) the state of owing something (especially money) | - |
| debtor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debitor |
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| debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| debut | (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
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| (noun) the presentation of a debutante in society | - |
| debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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