| desalination | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalinisation, desalinization |
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| desalinisation | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalination, desalinization |
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| desalinization | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalination, desalinisation |
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| descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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| descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| descendent | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
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| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| desecration | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, profanation, sacrilege |
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| desegregation | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: integrating, integration |
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| desensitisation | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitization |
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| desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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| desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
| deserter | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: defector |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| desertification | (noun) the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land | - |
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| desertion | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, defection |
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| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, forsaking |
| deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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| deshabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: dishabille |
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| desiccant | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: drier, drying agent, siccative |
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| desiccation | (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, drying up, evaporation |
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| (noun) dryness resulting from the removal of water | Synonyms: dehydration |
| desideratum | (noun) something desired as a necessity | - |
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| design | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: designing |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: figure, pattern |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something | - |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: plan |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, pattern |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| designing | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
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| desipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system | - |
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| desirability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirableness |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirableness, oomph, sex appeal |
| 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 |
| desire | (noun) an inclination to want things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state | - |
| (noun) something that is desired | - |
| desk | (noun) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments | - |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| desktop | (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: background, screen background |
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| (noun) the top of a desk | - |
| desmid | (noun) freshwater green algae | - |
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| desolation | (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: forlornness, loneliness |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: devastation |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, nakedness |
| desorption | (noun) changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state | - |
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| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| desperate | (noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
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| desperation | (noun) desperate recklessness | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: despair |
| despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
| despoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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| despotism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, tyranny |
| desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| dessiatine | (noun) a former Russian unit of area equal to 2.7 acres | - |
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| destabilisation | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilization |
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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) | - |
| destalinisation | (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, destalinization |
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| 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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| destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
| destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse | - |
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| desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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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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