| anorchidism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchism |
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| cryptorchidism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidy, cryptorchism |
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| dismal | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| dismally | (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dreadfully |
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| (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: drearily |
| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
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| dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dismay | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, consternation |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment |
| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
| dismayed | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, shocked |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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| (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
| dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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| dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
| (verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
| dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
| (noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
| dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| dismissible | (adjective) subject to dismissal | - |
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| dismission | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismissal, pink slip |
| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
| druidism | (noun) the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
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| encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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| hermaphrodism | (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphroditism |
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| hyperparathyroidism | (noun) excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis) | - |
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| hyperthyroidism | (noun) an overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones | Synonyms: thyrotoxicosis |
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| hypogonadism | (noun) incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk | - |
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| hypoparathyroidism | (noun) inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood | - |
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| hypothyroidism | (noun) an underactive thyroid gland; a glandular disorder resulting from insufficient production of thyroid hormones | - |
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| invalidism | (noun) chronic ill health | - |
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| maidism | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| mayidism | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| monorchidism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchism |
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| nomadism | (noun) The way of life of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc. | - |
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| nudism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: naturism |
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| ophidism | (noun) poisoning by snake venom | - |
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| sadism | (noun) sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others | - |
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| tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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| tribadism | (noun) a form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse | - |
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| undismayed | (adjective) unshaken in purpose | Synonyms: undaunted, unshaken |
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