| 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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| dermic | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermal |
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| dermis | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, derma |
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| determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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| determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
| (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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| determination | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: finding |
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| (noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: purpose |
| (noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
| (noun) deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature | - |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
| determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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| (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
| (adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
| (adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
| determinedly | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: unfalteringly, unshakably |
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| (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: ambitiously |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| diathermy | (noun) a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents | - |
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| disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |
| disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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| disarmer | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: pacificist, pacifist |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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| disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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| 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 |
| 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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| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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| disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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| dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| doormat | (noun) a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering | Synonyms: welcome mat |
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| (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: weakling, wuss |
| dorm | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
| (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
| (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
| dormer | (noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window | Synonyms: dormer window |
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| dormie | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormy |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| dormy | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormie |
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| durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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| earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
| earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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| ectoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, exoderm |
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| ectodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the ectoderm | Synonyms: ectodermic |
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| ectodermic | (adjective) of or relating to the ectoderm | Synonyms: ectodermal |
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| ectotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: poikilotherm |
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| ectothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: heterothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| endermatic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermic |
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| endermic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermatic |
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| endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| endosperm | (noun) nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants | - |
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| endothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermic, heat-absorbing |
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| endothermic | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermal, heat-absorbing |
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| enormity | (noun) an act of extreme wickedness | - |
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| (noun) the quality of extreme wickedness | - |
| (noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: outrageousness |
| (noun) vastness of size or extent | - |
| enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
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| enormously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: hugely, staggeringly, tremendously |
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| enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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| epidermal | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermic |
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| epidermic | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermal |
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| epidermis | (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: cuticle |
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| episperm | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: seed coat, testa |
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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 | - |
| erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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| evermore | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, forever |
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| (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: forevermore |
| exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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| exotherm | (noun) a compound that gives off heat during its formation and absorbs heat during its decomposition | - |
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| exothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermic, heat-releasing |
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| exothermic | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermal, heat-releasing |
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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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| falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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| farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: grow, produce, raise |
| (verb) collect fees or profits | - |
| (verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer | - |
| farmer | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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| farmhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand |
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| farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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| 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 |
| farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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| (noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
| farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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| farthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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