| cymograph | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure) | Synonyms: kymograph |
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| cymose | (adjective) having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side | - |
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| daemon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daimon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| (noun) a person who is part mortal and part god | Synonyms: demigod |
| daimon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damosel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damourite | (noun) a variety of muscovite | - |
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| damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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| demo | (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demonstration |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demonstrate, exhibit, present, show |
| demob | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
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| demobilisation | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilization |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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| demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
| democracy | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | Synonyms: majority rule |
| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, republic |
| democrat | (noun) an advocate of democratic principles | - |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| democratically | (adverb) in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles | - |
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| democratisation | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratization |
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| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratism | (noun) the theory, system, or principles of democracy. | - |
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| democratization | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratisation |
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| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| demode | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee |
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| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| demodulation | (noun) (electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave | - |
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| demodulator | (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: detector |
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| demographer | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographist, population scientist |
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| demographic | (adjective) of or relating to demography | - |
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| (noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) | - |
| demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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| demography | (noun) the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | Synonyms: human ecology |
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| demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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| (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
| demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
| (verb) ruin or destroy | - |
| demolished | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: dismantled, razed |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| demolition | (noun) the act of demolishing | - |
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| (noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: destruction, wipeout |
| demon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, devil, fiend |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: devil, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) someone extremely diligent or skillful | - |
| demonetisation | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetization |
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| demonetise | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetize |
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| demonetization | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetisation |
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| demonetize | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetise |
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| demoniac | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniacal, possessed |
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| (noun) someone who acts as if possessed by a demon | - |
| demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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| demoniacally | (adverb) in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit | Synonyms: frenetically |
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| demonic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| demonisation | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonization |
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| demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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| demonism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism |
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| demonization | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonisation |
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| demonize | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonise |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| demonstrable | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: incontrovertible |
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| (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: provable |
| demonstrably | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: incontrovertibly, provably |
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| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
| demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| demoralisation | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralization |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralization |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralization |
| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralised | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralized, discouraged, disheartened |
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| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demoralization | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralisation |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| demoralize | (verb) confuse or put into disorder | - |
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| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralized | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, discouraged, disheartened |
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| demoralizing | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demote | (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, kick downstairs, relegate |
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| demotic | (adjective) of or for the common people | - |
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| demotion | (noun) act of lowering in rank or position | - |
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| diacetylmorphine | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: heroin |
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| diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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| diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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| (noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
| (noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
| (noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
| diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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| dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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| dichotomously | (adverb) in a dichotomous manner | - |
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| dimorphic | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphous |
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| dimorphism | (noun) (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms | - |
| dimorphous | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphic |
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| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| discommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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| disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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| 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 |
| ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| duomo | (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: cathedral |
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| dustmop | (noun) a dry swab for dusting floors | Synonyms: dry mop, dust mop |
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| dynamo | (noun) generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature | - |
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| dynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: ergometer |
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| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| eastmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: easternmost |
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| ecchymosis | (noun) the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin | - |
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| (noun) the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise | - |
| ectomorph | (noun) a person with a thin body | - |
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| ectomorphic | (adjective) having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs | - |
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