| discontentedness | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentment |
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| discontentment | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentedness |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discontinuation | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuance |
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| discontinue | (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, stop |
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| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
| (verb) come to or be at an end | - |
| discontinued | (adjective) stopped permanently or temporarily | - |
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| discontinuity | (noun) lack of connection or continuity | - |
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| discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
| discord | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discordance |
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| (noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discordance |
| (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: dissension |
| (noun) lack of agreement or harmony | Synonyms: strife |
| (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, disagree |
| discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
| discordant | (adjective) not in agreement or harmony | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic |
| discordantly | (adverb) in a discordant manner | Synonyms: unharmoniously |
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| discorporate | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| discotheque | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: disco |
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| discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
| (noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) give a reduction in price on | - |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| discounter | (noun) a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price | Synonyms: discount house, discount store, wholesale house |
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| discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
| (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |
| discouraged | (adjective) lacking in resolution | - |
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| (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, disheartened |
| discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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| (noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discouragingly | (adverb) in a discouraging manner | - |
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| discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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| (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
| (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
| (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
| discourteous | (adjective) showing no courtesy; rude | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: ungracious |
| discourteously | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: impolitely, rudely |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| discoverable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: ascertainable |
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| discovered | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: ascertained, observed |
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| discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
| discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
| (noun) something that is discovered | - |
| (noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| discreditable | (adjective) tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy | - |
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| discreditably | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
| discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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| (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
| discreetly | (adverb) with discretion; prudently and with wise self-restraint | - |
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| discreetness | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, finesse |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discretion, prudence |
| discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
| discrepant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, dissonant |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: inconsistent |
| (adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: incompatible |
| discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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| discreteness | (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness, severalty |
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| discretion | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discernment |
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| (noun) the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies | Synonyms: free will |
| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, prudence |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: delicacy |
| (noun) freedom to act or judge on one's own | - |
| discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| 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 |
| discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
| discursively | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: ramblingly |
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| discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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| discus | (noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: saucer |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible | - |
| discuss | (verb) speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion | Synonyms: hash out, talk over |
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| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discourse, talk about |
| discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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| discussion | (noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: give-and-take, word |
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| (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, treatment |
| downscale | (adjective) intended for people with low incomes | - |
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| dyscalculia | (noun) impaired ability to learn grade-appropriate mathematics | - |
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| dyschezia | (noun) difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) | - |
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| dyscrasia | (noun) an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body | - |
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| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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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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| emasculate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| emasculated | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, gelded |
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| emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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| (noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
| endoscope | (noun) a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery | - |
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| endoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to endoscopy | - |
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| endoscopy | (noun) visual examination of the interior of a hollow body organ by use of an endoscope | - |
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| ensconce | (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: settle |
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| enteroscope | (noun) an instrument for inspecting the inside of the intestine. | - |
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| epidiascope | (noun) an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects | - |
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| episcia | (noun) any plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers | - |
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| episcleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera of the eye | - |
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| episcopacy | (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| episcopal | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: pontifical |
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| episcopate | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopry |
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| (noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopacy |
| (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopric, diocese |
| (noun) the term of office of a bishop | - |
| escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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| (noun) a small squadron | - |
| escalade | (noun) an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) | - |
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| (verb) climb up and over | - |
| escalader | (noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders | - |
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| escalate | (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: intensify, step up |
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| escalation | (noun) an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy | - |
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| escalator | (noun) a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt | Synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway |
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| (noun) a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) | Synonyms: escalator clause |
| escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
| (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
| escapade | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: lark |
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| (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: adventure, dangerous undertaking, risky venture |
| 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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| escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| escapologist | (noun) an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping | Synonyms: escape expert |
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