| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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| (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
| depersonalisation | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalization, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalization |
| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depersonalization | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalisation |
| depersonalize | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, objectify |
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| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| (noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
| desperately | (adverb) with great urgency | Synonyms: urgently |
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| (adverb) in intense despair | - |
| desperation | (noun) desperate recklessness | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: despair |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| diapedesis | (noun) passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue | - |
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| diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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| diaper | (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: napkin, nappy |
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| (noun) a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures | - |
| diaphanoscope | (noun) An instrument for illuminating the interior of a cavity to determine the translucency of its walls. | - |
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| dipped | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: lordotic, swayback, swaybacked |
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| dipper | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball |
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| (noun) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom | Synonyms: water ouzel |
| (noun) a ladle that has a cup with a long handle | - |
| disappear | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
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| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: vanish |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: evaporate, melt |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| dispensed | (adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions | - |
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| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| dispersed | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: spread |
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| dispersion | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dissemination |
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| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: distribution |
| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: scattering |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| disrespectfully | (adverb) in a disrespectful manner | - |
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| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| (verb) paint with distemper | - |
| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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| dope | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) slang terms for inside information | Synonyms: low-down, poop, the skinny |
| (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: cola |
| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| (verb) give a narcotic to | Synonyms: dope up |
| (verb) add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties | - |
| (verb) take drugs to improve one's athletic performance | - |
| doped | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: drugged, narcotised, narcotized |
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| (adjective) treated or impregnated with a foreign substance | - |
| dopey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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| drape | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination | - |
| (noun) the manner in which fabric hangs or falls | - |
| (verb) arrange in a particular way | - |
| (verb) place casually | - |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, robe |
| (verb) cover or dress loosely with cloth | - |
| draped | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, mantled, wrapped |
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| (adjective) covered in folds of cloth | - |
| draper | (noun) a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods) | - |
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| drapery | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds | - |
| dropper | (noun) pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time | Synonyms: eye dropper |
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| drupe | (noun) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube | Synonyms: stone fruit |
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| drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| dupe | (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: victim |
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| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| dupery | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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| dyspepsia | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: indigestion, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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| dyspeptic | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, liverish |
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| (adjective) suffering from dyspepsia | - |
| (noun) a person suffering from indigestion | - |
| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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| electroscope | (noun) measuring instrument that detects electric charge; two gold leaves diverge owing to repulsion of charges with like sign | - |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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| (noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
| (noun) red table grape of California | - |
| (noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
| encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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| encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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| encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| endoscope | (noun) a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery | - |
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| endosperm | (noun) nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants | - |
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| enteroscope | (noun) an instrument for inspecting the inside of the intestine. | - |
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| envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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| (noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
| (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
| (noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
| (noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
| (noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
| enwrapped | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| eosinopenia | (noun) a decrease in the number of eosinophils in the blood | - |
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| epee | (noun) a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade | - |
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| ependyma | (noun) thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal | - |
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| epenthesis | (noun) the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier | - |
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| epenthetic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| epergne | (noun) a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers | - |
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| epidiascope | (noun) an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects | - |
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| epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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| episperm | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: seed coat, testa |
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| epitope | (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, determinant |
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| equipped | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipt |
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| (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: furnished |
| (adjective) carrying weapons | Synonyms: weaponed |
| (adjective) prepared with proper equipment | Synonyms: fitted out |
| erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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| escape | (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: flight |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, evasion |
| (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escapism |
| (noun) an avoidance of danger or difficulty | - |
| (noun) a means or way of escaping | - |
| (noun) a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level | Synonyms: escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve |
| (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow |
| (noun) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild | - |
| (verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
| (verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
| escaped | (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose |
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| escapee | (noun) someone who escapes | - |
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| escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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| esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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| especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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