| diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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| divulge | (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, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| divulgement | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgence |
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| divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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| doleful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: mournful |
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| dolefully | (adverb) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner | Synonyms: sorrowfully |
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| dolefulness | (noun) sadness caused by grief or affliction | - |
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| doubtful | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: dubious, dubitable, in question |
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| (adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: dubious |
| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: tentative |
| doubtfully | (adverb) in a doubtful manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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| doubtfulness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, question |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
| doula | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, labor coach, monitrice |
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| douroucouli | (noun) nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur | Synonyms: Aotus trivirgatus |
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| dracunculiasis | (noun) a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin | Synonyms: Guinea worm, Guinea worm disease |
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| dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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| (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
| dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
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| ductule | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductulus |
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| ductulus | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductule |
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| dulcet | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasant in a gentle way | - |
| dulciana | (noun) the organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality | - |
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| dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dulcimer | (noun) a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers | - |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings | - |
| dulcinea | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: ladylove |
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| dulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dull | (adjective) not having a sharp edge or point | - |
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| (adjective) emitting or reflecting very little light | - |
| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or animation | - |
| (adjective) not keenly felt | - |
| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: slow, sluggish |
| (adjective) blunted in responsiveness or sensibility | - |
| (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: muffled, muted, softened |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft | Synonyms: thudding |
| (adjective) (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted | - |
| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
| (verb) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness | - |
| (verb) make less lively or vigorous | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: pall |
| (verb) make dull in appearance | - |
| (verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb |
| dullard | (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: bore |
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| (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
| dulled | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: greyed |
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| (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: blunted |
| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: benumbed |
| dullness | (noun) lack of sensibility | - |
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| (noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | Synonyms: bluntness |
| (noun) the quality of lacking interestingness | - |
| (noun) a lack of visual brightness | - |
| (noun) the quality of being slow to understand | Synonyms: obtuseness |
| dully | (adverb) without liveliness | - |
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| (adverb) without luster or shine | - |
| dulse | (noun) coarse edible red seaweed | Synonyms: Rhodymenia palmata |
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| duly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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| dustpanful | (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpan |
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| dutiful | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: duteous |
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| dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
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| dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
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| dyscalculia | (noun) impaired ability to learn grade-appropriate mathematics | - |
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| earful | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, going-over, upbraiding |
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| (noun) an outpouring of gossip | - |
| ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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| ebullient | (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: exuberant, high-spirited |
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| ebulliently | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: expansively, exuberantly |
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| ebullition | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, effusion, gush, outburst |
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| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| edentulous | (adjective) having lost teeth | - |
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| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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| effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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| effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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| ejaculate | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (verb) eject semen | - |
| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| ejaculation | (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: interjection |
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| (noun) the discharge of semen in males | - |
| ejaculator | (noun) a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation | - |
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| (noun) a man who ejaculates semen | - |
| 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 | - |
| emulate | (verb) compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with | - |
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| (verb) strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | - |
| (verb) imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software | - |
| emulation | (noun) effort to equal or surpass another | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another | - |
| (noun) ambition to equal or excel | - |
| emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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| emulous | (adjective) characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation | - |
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| (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: rivalrous |
| emulously | (adverb) in a competitively imitative manner | - |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| emulsion | (noun) a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | Synonyms: photographic emulsion |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids | - |
| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encapsulation | (noun) the process of enclosing (as in a capsule) | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being enclosed (as in a capsule) | - |
| enculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| epaulet | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulette |
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| epaulette | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulet |
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| epauliere | (noun) armor plate that protects the shoulder | - |
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| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| eulogist | (noun) an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics | Synonyms: panegyrist |
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| eulogistic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| eulogium | (noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | Synonyms: eulogy |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| eulogy | (noun) a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently | Synonyms: eulogium |
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| (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, paean, panegyric, pean |
| eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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| (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
| exculpate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate |
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| exculpated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exonerated, vindicated |
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| exculpation | (noun) the act of freeing from guilt or blame | - |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, excuse, self-justification |
| exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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| (noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
| expulsion | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection |
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| (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance |
| (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: extrusion |
| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| exult | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) feel extreme happiness or elation | Synonyms: be on cloud nine, jump for joy, walk on air |
| exultant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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| exultantly | (adverb) in an exultant manner | Synonyms: exultingly |
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| exultation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: jubilation, rejoicing |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: jubilance, jubilancy, jubilation |
| exulting | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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| exultingly | (adverb) in an exultant manner | Synonyms: exultantly |
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| eyeful | (noun) a full view; a good look | - |
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| (noun) a strikingly beautiful woman | - |
| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| fabulous | (adjective) barely credible | - |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fab |
| (adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | Synonyms: mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological |
| fabulously | (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fantastically, incredibly |
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| facula | (noun) a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots | Synonyms: solar facula |
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| (noun) a bright spot on a planet | - |
| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| faculty | (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: mental faculty, module |
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| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: staff |