| departure | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: going, going away, leaving |
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| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: deviation, difference, divergence |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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| desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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| detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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| (verb) travel via a detour | - |
| devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
| (verb) to consume | - |
| (verb) enjoy avidly | - |
| devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| dinosaur | (noun) any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era | - |
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| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| disbursal | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursement, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursement, expense |
| disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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| disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
| disburser | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: expender, spender |
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| disclosure | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: revealing, revelation |
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| discolour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolor |
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| discolouration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discoloration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, stain |
| discolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize |
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| discomfiture | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| disfavour | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, dislike |
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| (noun) the state of being out of favor | Synonyms: disfavor |
| (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavor |
| disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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| disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
| dishonour | (noun) lacking honor or integrity | Synonyms: dishonor |
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| (noun) a state of shame or disgrace | Synonyms: dishonor |
| (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonor |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| dishonourable | (adjective) lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor | Synonyms: dishonorable |
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| dishonourableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonorableness |
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| dishonourably | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| displeasure | (noun) the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something | - |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
| disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| disturbingly | (adverb) in a disturbing manner | - |
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| diuresis | (noun) increased secretion of urine; if not due to increased liquid intake or to the action of a diuretic drug it can be a symptom of diabetes mellitus | - |
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| diuretic | (noun) any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water | Synonyms: diuretic drug, water pill |
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| diurnal | (adjective) of or belonging to or active during the day | - |
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| (adjective) having a daily cycle or occurring every day | - |
| divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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| (noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
| dolour | (noun) (poetry) painful grief | Synonyms: dolor |
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| dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| dour | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: forbidding, grim |
| doura | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: dourah, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| dourah | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| dourly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: glumly, sullenly |
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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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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| dramaturgic | (adjective) relating to the technical aspects of drama | Synonyms: dramaturgical |
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| dramaturgical | (adjective) relating to the technical aspects of drama | Synonyms: dramaturgic |
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| dramaturgy | (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, theater, theatre |
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| dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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| dura | (noun) the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: dura mater |
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| durability | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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| durable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable |
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| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: lasting, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) capable of withstanding wear and tear and decay | Synonyms: long-wearing |
| durables | (noun) consumer goods that are not destroyed by use | Synonyms: consumer durables, durable goods |
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| dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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| duramen | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: heartwood |
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| durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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| duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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| duress | (noun) compulsory force or threat | - |
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| durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
| durion | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian, durian tree, Durio zibethinus |
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| durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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| durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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| durra | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| durum | (noun) wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America | Synonyms: durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum |
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| dysuria | (noun) painful or difficult urination | - |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| ecotourism | (noun) tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature | - |
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| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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| elaphure | (noun) large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds | Synonyms: Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| empurpled | (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: over-embellished, purple |
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| enamour | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| enclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose | - |
| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: inclosure |
| (noun) a naturally enclosed space | Synonyms: natural enclosure |
| encolure | (noun) the mane of a horse | - |
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