| diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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| dialyze | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyse |
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| dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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| diazepam | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | Synonyms: Valium |
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| diazo | (adjective) relating to or containing diazonium | - |
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| diazonium | (noun) the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes | - |
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| diazotize | (verb) convert (an amine) into a diazo compound | - |
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| diazoxide | (noun) vasodilator (trade name Hyperstat) used to treat severe hypertension | Synonyms: Hyperstat |
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| dichotomization | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomisation |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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| digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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| (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
| digitization | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitisation |
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| digitize | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitise |
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| digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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| diltiazem | (noun) a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure | Synonyms: Cardizem |
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| diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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| discolorize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolourise |
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| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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| disorganization | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganisation |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganisation |
| disorganize | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganise |
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| disorganized | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganised |
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| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
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| dizygotic | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygous |
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| dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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| dizzily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: giddily, light-headedly |
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| dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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| dizzy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: giddy, vertiginous, woozy |
| (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
| dogmatize | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatise |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatise |
| domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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| (verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
| (verb) dismiss from work | - |
| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| doxazosin | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Cardura) that works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood passes through them more easily; it is also used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia | Synonyms: Cardura |
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| doze | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: drowse |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: drowse, snooze |
| dozen | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, twelve, xii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, twelve, XII |
| dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| dozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: bulldozer |
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| dozy | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: drowsing, drowsy |
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| dramatization | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatisation |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatisation |
| dramatize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatise |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatise |
| drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
| (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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| dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
| dyschezia | (noun) difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) | - |
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| dziggetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: chigetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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| ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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| economize | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, save |
| economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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| ectozoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: epizoan |
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| (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| eczema | (noun) generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages | - |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| elasticized | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticised |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embezzled | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: misappropriated |
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| embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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| emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emphasized | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphatic |
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| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| endozoan | (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: entozoan |
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| (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
| endozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: entozoan, entozoic |
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| energize | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, excite |
| energizer | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energiser |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| energizing | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, kinetic |
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| (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, activation |
| enthronization | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, investiture |
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| entozoan | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: endozoan |
| (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
| entozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoan |
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| entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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| enzootic | (adjective) of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases | - |
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| enzymatic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by an enzyme | - |
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| enzyme | (noun) any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions | - |
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| enzymologist | (noun) a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology | - |
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| enzymology | (noun) the branch of biochemistry dealing with the chemical nature and biological activity of enzymes | - |
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| epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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| epizoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: ectozoan |
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| (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoon |
| epizoic | (adjective) living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite | - |
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| epizoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan |
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| epizootic | (adjective) (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region | - |
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| equalization | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, leveling |
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| equalize | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalise, get even |
| equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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| (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
| estazolam | (noun) a frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom) | Synonyms: ProSom |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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| (verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
| etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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| etherize | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherise |
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| etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
| etymologizing | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, deriving |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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