| crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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| crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
| crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
| cupola | (noun) a roof in the form of a dome | - |
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| (noun) a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting | - |
| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| decapod | (noun) crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax | Synonyms: decapod crustacean |
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| (noun) cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones | - |
| decomposable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: analyzable |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| depolarisation | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarization |
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| depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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| depolarization | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarisation |
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| depolarize | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarise |
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| depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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| deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| depopulated | (adjective) having lost inhabitants as by war or disease | - |
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| depopulation | (noun) the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all) | - |
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| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
| deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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| deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| deposer | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, testifier |
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| deposit | (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposition |
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| (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository |
| (noun) a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
| (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: sediment |
| (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation |
| (noun) a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later | Synonyms: down payment |
| (noun) money deposited in a bank or some similar institution | Synonyms: bank deposit |
| (noun) money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposition |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: dethronement |
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| (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposit |
| (noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposit |
| depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| depot | (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: terminal, terminus |
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| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: entrepot, storage, store, storehouse |
| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| despoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| despondently | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despairingly |
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| despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| despotism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, tyranny |
| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| diaspora | (noun) the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | - |
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| (noun) the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel | - |
| dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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| dipole | (noun) an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center | Synonyms: dipole antenna |
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| (noun) a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance | - |
| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disappointed | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| disappointedly | (adverb) in disappointment; in a disappointed manner | - |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| discompose | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discomposed | (adjective) having your composure disturbed | - |
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| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| discorporate | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| disposable | (adjective) designed to be disposed of after use | - |
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| (adjective) free or available for use or disposition | - |
| (noun) an item that can be disposed of after it has been used | - |
| disposal | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposition |
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| (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: administration |
| (noun) a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage | Synonyms: electric pig, garbage disposal |
| (noun) the power to use something or someone | - |
| dispose | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: qualify |
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| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: incline |
| (verb) place or put in a particular order | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| (verb) give, sell, or transfer to another | - |
| disposed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, given, minded, tending |
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| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: fain, inclined, prepared |
| disposition | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: temperament |
| (noun) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing | - |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: inclination, tendency |
| dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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| dispossessed | (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: homeless, roofless |
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| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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| disproportional | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportionate |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| disproportionately | (adverb) to a disproportionate degree | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner which is out of proportion | - |
| doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| embonpoint | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, plump |
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| (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| empowered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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| endpoint | (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, termination, terminus |
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| entrepot | (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, storage, store, storehouse |
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| (noun) a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties | Synonyms: transshipment center |
| epoch | (noun) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event | Synonyms: era |
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| (noun) a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded | Synonyms: date of reference |
| epochal | (adjective) highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era | Synonyms: epoch-making |
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| eponym | (noun) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary) | - |
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| (noun) the person for whom something is named | - |
| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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| eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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| epos | (noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic, epic poem, heroic poem |
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| (noun) a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme | - |
| epoxy | (noun) a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminates | Synonyms: epoxy glue, epoxy resin |
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| (verb) glue with epoxy | - |
| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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| equipoised | (adjective) lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed | - |
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| equipotent | (adjective) having equal strength or efficacy | - |
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