| 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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