| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallite | (noun) any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock | - |
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| crystallization | (noun) a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation | - |
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| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystal |
| (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallizing |
| crystallize | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| crystallizing | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization |
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| crystallogen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, Group 14 element, tetragen, tetrel |
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| crystallographer | (noun) a specialist in crystallography | - |
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| crystallography | (noun) the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals | - |
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| custard | (noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen | - |
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| darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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| dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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| (noun) a despicable coward | - |
| dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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| dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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| daystar | (noun) a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky | Synonyms: Lucifer, morning star, Phosphorus |
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| decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| deforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: disforestation |
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| (noun) the state of being clear of trees | - |
| degustation | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| destabilisation | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilization |
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| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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| (noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
| destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
| destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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| destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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| destalinize | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinise |
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| detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
| detestably | (adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: abominably, odiously, repulsively |
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| detestation | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, odium |
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| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
| (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
| (noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
| diastasis | (noun) separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone | - |
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| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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| disforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: deforestation |
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| disinfestation | (noun) the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
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| distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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| (noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
| (noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
| distal | (adjective) situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone | - |
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| (adjective) directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
| distally | (adverb) far from the center | - |
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| distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
| (noun) a distant region | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a remote point in time | - |
| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| distant | (adjective) separated in space or coming from or going to a distance | - |
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| (adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: remote |
| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, upstage |
| (adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: remote |
| (adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: remote, removed |
| distantly | (adverb) from or at a distance | - |
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| distaste | (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, aversion |
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| distasteful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| distastefully | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, revoltingly, sickeningly |
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| (adverb) in an offensively distasteful manner | - |
| distastefulness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: odiousness, offensiveness |
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| (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
| downstage | (adjective) of the front half of a stage | - |
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| (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
| (adverb) at or toward the front of the stage | - |
| downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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| downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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| (adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: below, down the stairs, on a lower floor |
| earthstar | (noun) any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star | - |
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| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| ecstatic | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: enraptured, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| ecstatically | (adverb) in an ecstatic manner | Synonyms: rapturously, rhapsodically |
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| elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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| elastase | (noun) a pancreatic enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of elastin | - |
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| electrostatic | (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity | Synonyms: static |
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| electrostatically | (adverb) in an electrostatic manner | - |
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| electrostatics | (noun) the branch of physics that deals with static electricity | - |
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| encrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: incrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, incrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: incrustation |
| epistasis | (noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene | Synonyms: hypostasis |
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| epistaxis | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: nosebleed |
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| equidistant | (adjective) the same distance apart at every point | - |
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| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| established | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: constituted |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: naturalized |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: conventional |
| (adjective) shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt | - |
| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, effected |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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| estaminet | (noun) a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee | - |
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| estate | (noun) a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights | Synonyms: estate of the realm, the three estates |
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| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, land, landed estate |
| (noun) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities | - |
| estazolam | (noun) a frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom) | Synonyms: ProSom |
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| fascista | (noun) an Italian fascist under Mussolini | - |
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| festal | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festive, gay, merry |
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| fiesta | (noun) an elaborate party (often outdoors) | Synonyms: feast, fete |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| flagstaff | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagpole |
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| fluvastatin | (noun) least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol); usually taken orally at bedtime | Synonyms: Lescol |
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| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
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| forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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| forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
| forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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| forestay | (noun) an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast | - |
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| freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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| frontstall | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, testiere |
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| gangsta | (noun) (Black English) a member of a youth gang | - |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| gestate | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, expect, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize |
| gestation | (noun) the conception and development of an idea or plan | - |
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| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: maternity, pregnancy |
| (noun) the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) | Synonyms: gestation period |
| gestational | (adjective) of or relating to gestation | - |
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| grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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| (noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
| (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
| grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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| grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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| (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
| gustation | (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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