| delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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| delavirdine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Rescriptor) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Rescriptor |
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| delay | (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: holdup |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: hold, postponement, time lag, wait |
| (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: detain, hold up |
| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: detain, stay |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, retard |
| (verb) act later than planned, scheduled, or required | - |
| delayed | (adjective) not as far along as normal in development | - |
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| delayer | (noun) a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late | - |
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| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delectable | (adjective) capable of arousing sexual desire | Synonyms: sexually attractive |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
| delete | (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, edit |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: erase |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: cancel |
| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| deletion | (noun) the act of deleting something written or printed | - |
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| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, excision |
| (noun) (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome | - |
| (noun) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | Synonyms: omission |
| delf | (noun) an excavation; usually a quarry or mine | - |
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| delft | (noun) a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration | - |
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| deli | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen, food shop |
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| deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| deliberately | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: measuredly |
| deliberateness | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberation |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberation, slowness, unhurriedness |
| deliberation | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberateness |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, slowness, unhurriedness |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: calculation |
| (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, weighing |
| (noun) (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question | - |
| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| delible | (adjective) capable of being deleted | - |
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| delicacy | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: daintiness, fineness |
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| (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse |
| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: fragility |
| (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: slightness |
| (noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: airiness |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: discretion |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
| (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
| (adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
| (adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
| delicately | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: exquisitely, fine, finely |
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| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| delicious | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delightful |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| deliciously | (adverb) in a very pleasurable manner | Synonyms: pleasurably |
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| (adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: lusciously, scrumptiously |
| deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) greatly pleased | - |
| delightedly | (adverb) with delight | - |
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| delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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| delightfully | (adverb) in a delightful manner | - |
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| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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| delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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| delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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| (verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
| delineated | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineate, represented |
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| delineation | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal |
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| (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: depiction, limning, line drawing |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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| delinquency | (noun) an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor | Synonyms: juvenile delinquency |
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| (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: dereliction, willful neglect |
| (noun) nonpayment of a debt when due | - |
| delinquent | (adjective) past due; not paid at the scheduled time | Synonyms: overdue |
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| (adjective) guilty of a misdeed | - |
| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: derelict, neglectful, remiss |
| (noun) a young offender | Synonyms: juvenile delinquent |
| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| deliquium | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: faint, swoon, syncope |
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| 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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