| 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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| debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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| debatable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: disputable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, disputable, moot |
| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: problematic, problematical |
| 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 |
| (verb) argue with one another | - |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| 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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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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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 |
| debile | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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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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| (verb) enter as debit | - |
| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| debonair | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonaire, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonaire, debonnaire, suave |
| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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| deboned | (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: boned |
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| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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| (verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
| 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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| debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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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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| debug | (verb) locate and correct errors in a computer program code | - |
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| debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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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 | - |
| (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
| (verb) make one's debut | - |
| (verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
| debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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| (noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
| (noun) a small motor vehicle | - |
| dweeb | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: grind, nerd, swot, wonk |
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| ebb | (noun) the outward flow of the tide | Synonyms: reflux |
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| (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebbing, wane |
| (verb) fall away or decline | - |
| (verb) hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb | - |
| (verb) flow back or recede | Synonyms: ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out |
| ebbing | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, wane |
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| ebbtide | (noun) the tide while water is flowing out | - |
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| eblis | (noun) (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology | - |
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| ebon | (adjective) of a very dark black | Synonyms: ebony |
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| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| ebonite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: hard rubber, vulcanite |
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| ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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| ebony | (adjective) of a very dark black | Synonyms: ebon |
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| (noun) a very dark black | Synonyms: coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
| (noun) tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork | Synonyms: Diospyros ebenum, ebony tree |
| (noun) hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys | - |
| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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| ebullient | (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: exuberant, high-spirited |
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| ebulliently | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: expansively, exuberantly |
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| ebullition | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, effusion, gush, outburst |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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| enfeeble | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, drain |
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| enfeeblement | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, exhaustion |
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| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| ephebeia | (noun) in ancient Greece, a state institution organized to train freeborn youths between the ages of 18 and 20 for military and administrative service. | - |
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| eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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| (verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
| eyebath | (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyecup |
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| eyebrow | (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: brow, supercilium |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| febrifuge | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: antipyretic |
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| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| febrility | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| feeble | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: nerveless |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: faint |
| (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: lame |
| feebleminded | (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: backward, half-witted, slow-witted |
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| feeblemindedness | (noun) severe mental deficiency | - |
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| feebleness | (noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: tenuity |
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| (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
| feebly | (adverb) in a halting and feeble manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a faint and feeble manner | - |
| fibreboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fiberboard, particle board |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| firebird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, hangbird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager |
| (noun) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage | Synonyms: Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher |
| fireboat | (noun) a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront | - |
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| firebomb | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: incendiary, incendiary bomb |
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| (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
| firebox | (noun) a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned | - |
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| firebrand | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: inciter, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: brand |
| firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| firebug | (noun) a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain | - |
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| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, incendiary |
| forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
| forebrain | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: prosencephalon |
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| freebee | (noun) something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | Synonyms: freebie |
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| freebie | (noun) something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | Synonyms: freebee |
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| freebooter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| freeborn | (adjective) born free of free parents | - |
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| gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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| gameboard | (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: board |
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| gazebo | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: summerhouse |
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| geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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| gleba | (noun) fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn | - |
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