| delirious | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: hallucinating |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| deliriously | (adverb) as if in a delirium | - |
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| (adverb) in a delirious manner | - |
| delirium | (noun) a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations | - |
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| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| deliverable | (adjective) suitable for or ready for delivery | - |
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| (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| dell | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dingle |
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| delocalize | (verb) remove from the proper or usual locality | - |
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| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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| delta | (noun) the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water | - |
| (noun) an object shaped like an equilateral triangle | - |
| deltoid | (adjective) triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex | - |
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| (noun) a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm | Synonyms: deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus |
| delude | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, deceive, lead on |
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| deluge | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, flood, inundation |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: flood, inundation, torrent |
| (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
| (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
| delusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: head game, illusion |
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| (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: hallucination |
| (noun) (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary | Synonyms: psychotic belief |
| delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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| delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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| delusively | (adverb) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner | - |
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| delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| deluxe | (adjective) elegant and sumptuous | Synonyms: de luxe, luxe |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| demagnetisation | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetization |
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| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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| demagnetize | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetise |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetise |
| demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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| demagogic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogical |
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| demagogical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogic |
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| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demagogy | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagoguery |
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| demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
| (noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
| (noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
| (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
| (verb) summon to court | - |
| (verb) ask to be informed of | - |
| (verb) lay legal claim to | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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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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| demandingly | (adverb) in a demanding manner | - |
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| demantoid | (noun) a green andradite used as a gemstone | - |
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| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| demarcation | (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, dividing line, line |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation line, limit |
| demarche | (noun) a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs | - |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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| dematerialize | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialise |
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| demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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| demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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| demeaningly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: humiliatingly |
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| demeanor | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment |
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| demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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| demented | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| dementedly | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: crazily, insanely, madly |
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| dementedness | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementia |
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| dementia | (noun) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | Synonyms: dementedness |
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| demerara | (noun) light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara sugar |
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| (noun) dark rum from Guyana | Synonyms: demerara rum |
| (noun) a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana | - |
| demerit | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: fault |
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| (noun) a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces | - |
| demesne | (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: domain, land |
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| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, estate, land, landed estate |
| demiglace | (noun) sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry | Synonyms: demi-glaze |
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| demigod | (noun) a person who is part mortal and part god | Synonyms: daemon |
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| (noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: superman, Ubermensch |
| demijohn | (noun) large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork | - |
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| demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
| demilitarize | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarise |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, disarm |
| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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| demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
| demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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| demise | (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, dying |
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| (verb) transfer by a lease or by a will | - |
| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| demist | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: defog |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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| demo | (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demonstration |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demonstrate, exhibit, present, show |
| demob | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
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| demobilisation | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilization |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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| demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
| democracy | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | Synonyms: majority rule |
| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, republic |
| democrat | (noun) an advocate of democratic principles | - |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| democratically | (adverb) in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles | - |
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| democratisation | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratization |
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| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratism | (noun) the theory, system, or principles of democracy. | - |
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| democratization | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratisation |
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| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| demode | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee |
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| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| demodulation | (noun) (electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave | - |
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| demodulator | (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: detector |
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| demographer | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographist, population scientist |
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| demographic | (adjective) of or relating to demography | - |
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| (noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) | - |
| demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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| demography | (noun) the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations | Synonyms: human ecology |
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| demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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| (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |