| dishful | (noun) the quantity that a dish will hold | Synonyms: dish |
|---|
| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
|---|
| disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
|---|
| (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
| disinfection | (noun) treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms | - |
|---|
| disinfector | (noun) an apparatus for applying disinfectants. | - |
|---|
| disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
|---|
| disinfestation | (noun) the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
|---|
| disinflation | (noun) a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments | - |
|---|
| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
|---|
| disproof | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: falsification, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
|---|
| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: falsification, refutation |
| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
|---|
| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| disqualified | (adjective) disqualified by law or rule or provision | - |
|---|
| (adjective) barred from competition for violation of rules | - |
| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
|---|
| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
|---|
| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
|---|
| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| disrespectfully | (adverb) in a disrespectful manner | - |
|---|
| dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
|---|
| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
|---|
| dissatisfied | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: disgruntled |
|---|
| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
|---|
| distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
|---|
| (noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
| (noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
| distasteful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
|---|
| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| distastefully | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, revoltingly, sickeningly |
|---|
| (adverb) in an offensively distasteful manner | - |
| distastefulness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: odiousness, offensiveness |
|---|
| (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
| distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
|---|
| distressfully | (adverb) with distress | - |
|---|
| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
|---|
| distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
|---|
| distrustfully | (adverb) with distrust | Synonyms: mistrustfully |
|---|
| distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
|---|
| disulfiram | (noun) a drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism; causes nausea and vomiting if alcohol is ingested | Synonyms: Antabuse |
|---|
| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
|---|
| diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
|---|
| (noun) the condition of being varied | - |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
|---|
| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
|---|
| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| dobsonfly | (noun) large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait | Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson, dobson fly |
|---|
| doctorfish | (noun) surgeon fish of the West Indies | Synonyms: Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish |
|---|
| doff | (verb) to take off from the body or head | - |
|---|
| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
|---|
| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
|---|
| dogfish | (noun) any of several small sharks | - |
|---|
| (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, grindle |
| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
|---|
| doleful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: mournful |
|---|
| dolefully | (adverb) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner | Synonyms: sorrowfully |
|---|
| dolefulness | (noun) sadness caused by grief or affliction | - |
|---|
| dollarfish | (noun) small food fish of Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Poronotus triacanthus |
|---|
| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
| dolphinfish | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, mahimahi |
|---|
| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: mahimahi |
| doofus | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, half-wit, nitwit |
|---|
| doorframe | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorcase |
|---|
| dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
|---|
| doubtful | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: dubious, dubitable, in question |
|---|
| (adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: dubious |
| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: tentative |
| doubtfully | (adverb) in a doubtful manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
|---|
| doubtfulness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, question |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
| downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
|---|
| downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
|---|
| (noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
| downfield | (adjective) located at, or relatively closer to, the defending team's end of the playing field | - |
|---|
| (adverb) in the direction of the defending team's end of the playing field | - |
| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
|---|
| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| draff | (noun) the residue of malt and grain which remains in the mash-kettle after the mashing and lautering process. | Synonyms: brewer's grain, spent grain |
|---|
| draft | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draught, drawing |
|---|
| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draught, gulp, swig |
| (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draught |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch of a design or picture | Synonyms: rough drawing |
| (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draught |
| (noun) any of the various versions in the development of a written work | Synonyms: draft copy |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draught, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draught |
| (noun) a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another | Synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment |
| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: enlist, muster in |
| (verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: outline |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draught |
| draftee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, inductee |
|---|
| drafter | (noun) a writer of a draft | - |
|---|
| drafting | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: draftsmanship, drawing |
|---|
| (noun) writing a first version to be filled out and polished later | - |
| (noun) the craft of drawing blueprints | Synonyms: mechanical drawing |
| draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
|---|
| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
|---|
| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
|---|
| drafty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: draughty |
|---|
| dragonfly | (noun) slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. | Synonyms: darning needle, devil's darning needle, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder |
|---|
| drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
|---|
| dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
|---|
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
|---|
| (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
| dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
|---|
| dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
|---|
| drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
|---|
| (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
| (noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
| (noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
| (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
|---|
| drifter | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
|---|
| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
|---|
| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
|---|
| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
|---|
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
|---|
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
|---|
| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
|---|
| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
|---|
| duff | (noun) a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron | Synonyms: plum duff |
|---|
| duffel | (noun) a coarse heavy woolen fabric | Synonyms: duffle |
|---|
| (noun) a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings | Synonyms: duffel bag, duffle, duffle bag |
| duffer | (noun) an incompetent or clumsy person | - |
|---|
| duffle | (noun) a coarse heavy woolen fabric | Synonyms: duffel |
|---|
| (noun) a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings | Synonyms: duffel, duffel bag, duffle bag |
| dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
|---|
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
|---|
| dumbfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
|---|
| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
|---|
| dumfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
|---|
| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
|---|
| dustpanful | (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpan |
|---|
| dutiful | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: duteous |
|---|
| dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
|---|
| dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
|---|
| dwarf | (noun) a plant or animal that is atypically small | - |
|---|
| (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: midget, nanus |
| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: gnome |
| (verb) check the growth of | - |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: overshadow, shadow |
| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
|---|
| dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
|---|
| dwarfism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: nanism |
|---|