| damask | (adjective) having a woven pattern | - |
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| (noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
| (noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
| dammar | (noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine | Synonyms: damar, dammar resin, gum dammar |
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| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| decimal | (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: denary |
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| (noun) a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 | Synonyms: decimal fraction |
| (noun) a number in the decimal system | - |
| decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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| decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
| decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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| decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
| decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
| decimation | (noun) destroying or killing a large part of the population | - |
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| declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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| (noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| defamation | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| deformation | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: contortion |
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| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: distortion |
| (noun) alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it | - |
| deformational | (adjective) relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure | - |
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| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanised | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanized, unhuman |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
| dehumanized | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, unhuman |
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| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| demagnetisation | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetization |
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| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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| demagnetize | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetise |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetise |
| demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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| demagogic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogical |
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| demagogical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogic |
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| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demagogy | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagoguery |
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| demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
| (noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
| (noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
| (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
| (verb) summon to court | - |
| (verb) ask to be informed of | - |
| (verb) lay legal claim to | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| demandingly | (adverb) in a demanding manner | - |
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| demantoid | (noun) a green andradite used as a gemstone | - |
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| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| demarcation | (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, dividing line, line |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation line, limit |
| demarche | (noun) a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs | - |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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| dematerialize | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialise |
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| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| derma | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, dermis |
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| dermabrasion | (noun) removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer | - |
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| dermal | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, epidermal, epidermic |
| (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, cutaneous |
| dermatitis | (noun) inflammation of the skin; skin becomes itchy and may develop blisters | - |
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| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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| dermatologic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatological |
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| dermatological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatologic |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| dermatology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases | - |
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| dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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| dermatomycosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatophytosis |
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| dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| dermatophytosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatomycosis |
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| dermatosclerosis | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: scleroderma |
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| dermatosis | (noun) disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation) | - |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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| desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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| diagrammatic | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatical |
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| diagrammatical | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatic |
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| diagrammatically | (adverb) in a diagrammatic manner | Synonyms: graphically |
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| diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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| diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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| (noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| diastema | (noun) a gap or vacant space between two teeth | - |
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| dichromacy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromasy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| dichromat | (noun) a person with any of the various forms of dichromacy | - |
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| dichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: bichromate |
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| dichromatic | (adjective) of or relating to dichromatism | - |
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| (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured |
| dichromatism | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromasy, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| dichromatopsia | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromasy, dichromatism, dichromia |
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| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| dilemma | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: quandary |
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| diorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: cyclorama, panorama |
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| diploma | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: sheepskin |
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| diplomacy | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, discreetness, finesse |
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| (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: statecraft, statesmanship |
| (noun) negotiation between nations | Synonyms: diplomatic negotiations |
| diplomat | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomatist |
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| (noun) a person who deals tactfully with others | - |
| diplomate | (noun) medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group | - |
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| diplomatic | (adjective) using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people | Synonyms: diplomatical |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of diplomacy | - |
| diplomatical | (adjective) using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people | Synonyms: diplomatic |
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| diplomatically | (adverb) with diplomacy; in a diplomatic manner | - |
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| diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomat |
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| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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