| 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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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| deface | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, disfigure |
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| defacement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defalcation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) the sum of money that is misappropriated | - |
| defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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| defamation | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| defamer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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| default | (noun) loss due to not showing up | - |
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| (noun) an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified | Synonyms: default option |
| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
| defaulter | (noun) a contestant who forfeits a match | - |
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| (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: deadbeat |
| (noun) someone who fails to make a required appearance in court | - |
| defeasible | (adjective) capable of being annulled or voided or terminated | - |
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| defeat | (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: licking |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: frustration |
| (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| defeated | (adjective) beaten or overcome; not victorious | - |
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| (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
| (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
| defeatism | (noun) acceptance of the inevitability of defeat | - |
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| defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| defecation | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: laxation, shitting |
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| defecator | (noun) (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups. | - |
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| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: shitter, voider |
| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
| defection | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, renunciation |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| defectively | (adverb) in a defective manner | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defector | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: deserter |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defeminize | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminise |
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| defence | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defense, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defense, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defense |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defense, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defense, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defense, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defense, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defending team, defense |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence force, defense, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defencelessly, defenseless, defenselessly |
| defencelessly | (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defenseless, defenselessly |
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| defencelessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defenselessness, unprotectedness |
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| defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
| (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
| defendable | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defensible |
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| defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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| defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| defenestration | (noun) the act of throwing someone or something out of a window | - |
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| defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| defenseless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenceless |
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| (adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: naked |
| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenceless |
| (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defencelessly, defenselessly |
| defenselessly | (adverb) without defense | Synonyms: defenceless, defencelessly, defenseless |
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| defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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| defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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| defensible | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defendable |
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| defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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| (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
| (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |