| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
| diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| diphenhydramine | (noun) antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Benadryl |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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| (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| dominance | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: laterality |
| (noun) the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control |
| dominant | (adjective) exercising influence or control | - |
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| (adjective) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar | - |
| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
| (noun) an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different | Synonyms: dominant allele |
| (noun) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | - |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| dominated | (adjective) controlled or ruled by superior authority or power | - |
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| (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: henpecked |
| dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
| (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
| domination | (noun) social control by dominating | - |
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| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: mastery, supremacy |
| dominatrix | (noun) a dominating woman (especially one who plays that role in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) | - |
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| domine | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: dominee, dominie, dominus |
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| dominee | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominie, dominus |
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| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| domineeringly | (adverb) in a domineering manner | - |
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| domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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| dominical | (adjective) of or relating to Sunday as the Lord's Day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or coming from Jesus Christ | - |
| dominie | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominus |
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| dominion | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: rule |
| domino | (noun) a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots | - |
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| (noun) a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes | Synonyms: eye mask, half mask |
| (noun) a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume | - |
| dominoes | (noun) any of several games played with small rectangular blocks | Synonyms: dominos |
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| dominos | (noun) any of several games played with small rectangular blocks | Synonyms: dominoes |
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| dominus | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominie |
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| dopamine | (noun) a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system; as a drug (trade names Dopastat and Intropin) it is used to treat shock and hypotension | Synonyms: Dopastat, Intropin |
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| dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| effeminacy | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| effeminateness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
| (noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
| (noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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| eminence | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: tubercle, tuberosity |
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| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, note, preeminence |
| eminent | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: lofty, soaring, towering |
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| (adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: high |
| eminently | (adverb) in an eminent manner | - |
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| enamine | (noun) an amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N- | - |
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| ergotamine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot that is less toxic than ergot; causes constriction of blood vessels and is used to treat migraine | - |
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| ermine | (noun) mustelid of Northern Hemisphere in its white winter coat | Synonyms: Mustela erminea, shorttail weasel |
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| (noun) the expensive white fur of the ermine | - |
| estaminet | (noun) a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee | - |
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| etamin | (noun) a soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh; used for curtains or clothing etc. | Synonyms: etamine |
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| etamine | (noun) a soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh; used for curtains or clothing etc. | Synonyms: etamin |
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| examination | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: scrutiny |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: testing |
| (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examen |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, test |
| (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogatory |
| examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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| (verb) question closely | - |
| (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
| (verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
| examinee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: testee |
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| examiner | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: inspector |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: quizzer, tester |
| exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| exterminable | (adjective) capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out | Synonyms: extirpable |
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| exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| exterminated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: annihilated, wiped out |
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| extermination | (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extinction |
| exterminator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: eradicator, terminator |
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| famine | (noun) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | - |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, shortage |
| farming | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, agricultural |
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| (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
| (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
| 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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| feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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| (adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | - |
| feminineness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: femaleness |
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| femininity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: muliebrity |
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| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| feminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminize, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminize |
| feminism | (noun) the movement aimed at equal rights for women | Synonyms: feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement |
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| (noun) a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | - |
| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
| filming | (noun) the act of making a film | Synonyms: cinematography, motion-picture photography |
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| flaming | (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: fiery |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, fucking |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flame |
| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| foaminess | (noun) the property of being foamy | - |
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| foaming | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foamy, frothing |
| foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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| forthcoming | (adjective) available when required or as promised | - |
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| (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, coming, upcoming |
| (adjective) at ease in talking to others | Synonyms: extroverted, outgoing |
| forthcomingness | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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| framing | (noun) formulation of the plans and important details | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: frame |
| fulminant | (adjective) sudden and severe | - |
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| fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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| (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| fulmination | (noun) the act of exploding with noise and violence | - |
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| (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: diatribe |
| gallamine | (noun) neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia | Synonyms: Flaxedil |
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| gamin | (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: street arab, throwaway |
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| gamine | (noun) a girl of impish appeal | - |
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| (noun) a homeless girl who roams the streets | - |
| gaminess | (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: raciness, ribaldry, spiciness |
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| gaming | (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, play |
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