| decolletage | (noun) a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress | - |
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| decollete | (adjective) (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline | Synonyms: low-cut, low-necked |
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| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| decolonize | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonise |
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| decolor | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolorize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolour | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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| decomposable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: analyzable |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decompression | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompressing |
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| (noun) restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display | - |
| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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| deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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| deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decontamination | (noun) the removal of contaminants | - |
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| decontrol | (verb) relax or remove controls of | - |
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| decor | (noun) decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior | Synonyms: interior decoration |
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| decorate | (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: dress |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to | - |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace |
| decorated | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: adorned |
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| decoration | (noun) the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive) | - |
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| (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: ornament, ornamentation |
| (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon |
| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| decoratively | (adverb) in a decorative manner | - |
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| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| decorator | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: ornamentalist |
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| (noun) a person who specializes in interior decoration | Synonyms: house decorator, interior decorator, room decorator |
| decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| decorously | (adverb) in a proper and decorous manner | - |
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| decorousness | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorum |
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| decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
| decortication | (noun) removal of the outer covering of an organ or part | - |
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| decorum | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorousness |
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| decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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| (noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
| decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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| (verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
| (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
| decoy | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, lure |
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| (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: steerer |
| (verb) lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy | - |
| decrease | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrement |
| (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: drop-off, lessening |
| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrement |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| decree | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: edict, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
| (verb) issue a decree | - |
| decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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| decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |
| decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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| decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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| decrepitude | (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: dilapidation |
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| (noun) The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. | - |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
| (verb) grow quieter | - |
| decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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| decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| decumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, recumbent |
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| decurved | (adjective) bent down or curved downward | - |
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| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| (verb) cross or intersect so as to form a cross | - |
| decussation | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasm, chiasma |
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| dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
| (verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
| (verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
| dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
| dedication | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty |
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| (noun) complete and wholehearted fidelity | - |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: inscription |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: commitment |
| (noun) a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose | - |
| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deduce | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduct, derive, infer |
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| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: infer |
| deducible | (adjective) capable of being deduced | - |
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| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| deductible | (adjective) acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) | - |
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| (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
| (noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
| (noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| deed | (noun) something that people do or cause to happen | Synonyms: act, human action, human activity |
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| (noun) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | Synonyms: deed of conveyance, title |
| deedbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: strongbox |
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| deeds | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: works |
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| deem | (verb) keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | Synonyms: hold, take for, view as |
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| deep | (adjective) having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy | - |
| (adjective) strong; intense | Synonyms: rich |
| (adjective) very distant in time or space | - |
| (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, recondite |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| (adjective) intense or extreme | - |
| (adjective) large in quantity or size | - |
| (adjective) with head or back bent low | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: bass |
| (adjective) marked by depth of thinking | - |
| (adjective) relatively thick from top to bottom | - |
| (adjective) extending relatively far inward | - |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: thick |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
| (noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
| (noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
| (adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deeply |
| (adverb) to an advanced time | Synonyms: late |
| (adverb) to a great distance | - |
| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| deeply | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: intensely, profoundly |
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| (adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deep |
| deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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| (noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
| (noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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