| debug | (verb) locate and correct errors in a computer program code | - |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| decentering | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentration |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision | Synonyms: decision making |
| decoding | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decryption |
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| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| defog | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: demist |
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| defusing | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: deactivation |
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| degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
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| degrading | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: debasing |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: corrupting |
| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demoralizing | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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| depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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| deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| desensitizing | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitising |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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| detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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| detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| 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 |
| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| dg | (noun) 1/10 gram | Synonyms: decigram |
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| diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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| diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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| dialog | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialogue |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialogue, duologue |
| (noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialogue |
| dieting | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: diet |
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| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| dig | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: digging, excavation |
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| (noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: jab |
| (noun) a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
| (noun) the site of an archeological exploration | Synonyms: archeological site, excavation |
| (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
| (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over |
| (verb) create by digging | Synonyms: dig out |
| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: excavate, hollow |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab |
| (verb) thrust down or into | - |
| (verb) remove, harvest, or recover by digging | Synonyms: dig out, dig up |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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| dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| ding | (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, gouge, nick |
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| (noun) a ringing sound | - |
| (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: dingdong, dong |
| dingdong | (adverb) heartily or earnestly | - |
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| (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dong |
| dining | (noun) the act of eating dinner | - |
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| diphthong | (noun) a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another | - |
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| directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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| dirtying | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: soiling, soilure |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| dishrag | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishcloth |
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| dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| displeasing | (adjective) causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | - |
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| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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| disquieting | (adjective) causing mental discomfort | - |
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| disregarding | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregardless, irrespective, no matter, regardless |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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