DESIRE

Name Report For First Name DESIRE:

First name DESIRE's origin is English. DESIRE means "variant of french desiree". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DESIRE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of desire.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DESIRE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with DESIRE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming DESIRE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DES�RE AS A WHOLE:

desiree desirey

NAMES RHYMING WITH DES�RE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (esire) - Names That Ends with esire:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (sire) - Names That Ends with sire:

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ire) - Names That Ends with ire:

saffire gaothaire giollamhuire macaire allaire blaire ceire claire dechtire hilaire laire maire muire niaire sapphire ainmire alistaire azhaire balgaire coire conaire daire dhoire doire kildaire killdaire laoghaire maolmuire squire gregoire zyphire sinclaire moire

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:

ebiere balere deirdre hannelore aure kore magaere pleasure terpsichore amare nyasore zere alexandre bedivere bellangere brangore elidure moore cesare isidore imre gilmore baldassare petre aedre aefre amalure andere andsware asthore audre aurore azzure baibre chere clare conchobarre dedre deidre desyre diandre diedre dierdre dore eastre eleonore eostre ettare genevre guenevere guinevere gwenevere honore idurre izarre kesare legarre lenore lore mare pipere quinevere richere valere adare aegelmaere aethelmaere

NAMES RHYMING WITH DES�RE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (desir) - Names That Begins with desir:

desirae desirat

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (desi) - Names That Begins with desi:

desideria desiderio desilyn

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (des) - Names That Begins with des:

des desanka desarae desaree desdemona deshawn desm desma desmona desmond desta destan destanee destin destina destine destinee destini destinie destiny deston destrey destrie destry

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:

dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere decla declan dedr dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandra deeann deeanna deedra deegan deems deen deena deerwa deerward defena dehaan deheune deianira deidra deiene deikun deina deiphobus deirdra deja deka deke dekel dekle del delaine

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DES�RE:

First Names which starts with 'de' and ends with 're':

delmare delmore devere

First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'e':

dace dae daesgesage daine daisie dale dalene damae damerae damiane danae dane danele danelle danette danice daniele danielle danise dannalee dannee dannelle dannie danrelle dantae dante daphne darce darcelle darchelle darcie darelene darelle darence darice darleane darlene darline darrance darrence daryle darylene daunte dave davide davidsone davie davine davite dawayne dawne dawnelle dawnette dawnielle dayle dayne delane delanie delbine delcine delice delphine demasone demissie dene denelle denice deniece denise denisse dennie dennise denyse deonne deorwine derebourne derorice derrance dete devanie devine devinee devonne dewayne deydrienne dezarae dezirae deziree diamante diamonique diane dianne dianthe dibe dice dike dikesone

English Words Rhyming DESIRE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DES�RE AS A WHOLE:

desireful

adjective (a.) Filled with desire; eager.

desirefulness

noun (n.) The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.

desireless

adjective (a.) Free from desire.

desirer

noun (n.) One who desires, asks, or wishes.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DES�RE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (esire) - English Words That Ends with esire:

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (sire) - English Words That Ends with sire:

belsire

noun (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor.

gipsire

noun (n.) A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.

grandsire

noun (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.

sire	noun (n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
	noun (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
	noun (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
	noun (n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
	noun (n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
	verb (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

transire

noun (n.) A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

vansire

noun (n.) An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ire) - English Words That Ends with ire:

acrospire	noun (n.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
	verb (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.

alamire

noun (n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

aspire	noun (n.) Aspiration.
	verb (v. t.) To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
	verb (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
	verb (v. t.) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

attire	noun (n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
	noun (n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
	noun (n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
	verb (v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

ayrshire

noun (n.) One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

balefire

noun (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

bonfire

noun (n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.

brumaire

noun (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

baignoire

noun (n.) A box of the lowest tier in a theater.

camphire

noun (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.

capillaire	noun (n.) A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
	noun (n.) Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.

commissionnaire	noun (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
	noun (n.) One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

conservatoire

noun (n.) A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].

claire

noun (n.) A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

commissionaire	noun (n.) One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like.
	noun (n.) One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

concessionaire

noun (n.) Alt. of Concessionnaire

concessionnaire

noun (n.) The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

doctrinaire

noun (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

eire

noun (n.) Air.

empire	noun (n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
	noun (n.) The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.
	noun (n.) Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.

entire	noun (n.) Entirely.
	noun (n.) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.
	adjective (a.) Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.
	adjective (a.) Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
	adjective (a.) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
	adjective (a.) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
	adjective (a.) Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
	adjective (a.) Internal; interior.

escargatoire

noun (n.) A nursery of snails.

escritoire

noun (n.) A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.

esquire	noun (n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.
	verb (v. t.) To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend.

fire	noun (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
	noun (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.
	noun (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
	noun (n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
	noun (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
	noun (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
	noun (n.) Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
	noun (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
	noun (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
	verb (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
	verb (v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
	verb (v. t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.
	verb (v. t.) To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
	verb (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
	verb (v. t.) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To drive by fire.
	verb (v. t.) To cauterize.
	verb (v. i.) To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
	verb (v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
	verb (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.

fireflaire

noun (n.) A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.

frimaire

noun (n.) The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.

gire

noun (n.) See Gyre.

glaire

noun (n.) See Glair.

gleire

noun (n.) Alt. of Gleyre

headtire	noun (n.) A headdress.
	noun (n.) The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.

hire	noun (pron.) See Here, pron.
	noun (n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
	noun (n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.
	noun (n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.
	noun (n.) To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
	noun (n.) To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.

impire

noun (n.) See Umpire.

ire

noun (n.) Anger; wrath.

millionaire

noun (n.) One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.

millionnaire

noun (n.) Millionaire.

mire	noun (n.) An ant.
	noun (n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
	verb (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
	verb (v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.
	verb (v. i.) To stick in mire.

moire	noun (n.) Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
	noun (n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.
	noun (n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance on textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.
	noun (n.) Erroneously, moire, the fabric.
	adjective (a.) Watered; having a watered or clouded appearance; -- as of silk or metals.
	() To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface).

mousquetaire	noun (n.) A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress.
	noun (n.) A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.

quagmire	noun (n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
	noun (n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.

quavemire	noun (n.) See Quagmire.
	noun (n.) See Quagmire.

quire	noun (n.) See Choir.
	noun (n.) A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
	noun (n.) See Choir.
	noun (n.) A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
	verb (v. i.) To sing in concert.
	verb (v. i.) To sing in concert.

questionnaire

noun (n.) = Questionary, above.

pickmire

noun (n.) The pewit, or black-headed gull.

pismire

noun (n.) An ant, or emmet.

pompire

noun (n.) A pearmain.

portfire

noun (n.) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

praemunire	noun (n.) The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.
	noun (n.) The writ grounded on that offense.
	noun (n.) The penalty ascribed for the offense of praemunire.

premunire

noun (n.) See Praemunire.

proletaire

noun (n.) One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DES�RE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (desir) - Words That Begins with desir:

desirability

noun (n.) The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

desirableness

noun (n.) The quality of being desirable.

desiring

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desire

desirous

noun (n.) Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

desirousness

noun (n.) The state of being desirous.

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (desi) - Words That Begins with desi:

desiccant	noun (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
	adjective (a.) Drying; desiccative.

desiccating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiccate

desiccation

noun (n.) The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

desiccative	noun (n.) An application for drying up secretions.
	adjective (a.) Drying; tending to dry.

desiccator	noun (n.) One who, or that which, desiccates.
	noun (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
	noun (n.) One that desiccates
	noun (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as calcium chloride, above which is placed the material to be dried or preserved from moisture.
	noun (n.) A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.

desiccatory

adjective (a.) Desiccative.

desiderable

adjective (a.) Desirable.

desiderata	noun (n. pl.) See Desideratum.
	(pl. ) of Desideratum

desiderating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiderate

desideration

noun (n.) Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.

desiderative	noun (n.) An object of desire.
	noun (n.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
	adjective (a.) Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.

desideratum

noun (n.) Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

desidiose

adjective (a.) Alt. of Desidious

desidious

adjective (a.) Idle; lazy.

desidiousness

noun (n.) The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.

desight

noun (n.) An unsightly object.

desightment

noun (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.

designing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Design
	noun (n.) The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
	adjective (a.) Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

design	noun (n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
	noun (n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
	noun (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
	noun (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
	noun (n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
	noun (n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
	noun (n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
	noun (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
	noun (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
	verb (v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.

designable

adjective (a.) Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.

designating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Designate

designation	noun (n.) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
	noun (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
	noun (n.) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
	noun (n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

designative

adjective (a.) Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

designator	noun (n.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
	noun (n.) One who designates.

designatory

adjective (a.) Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

designer	noun (n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
	noun (n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
	noun (n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.

designful

adjective (a.) Full of design; scheming.

designless

adjective (a.) Without design.

designment	noun (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
	noun (n.) Design; purpose; scheme.

desilverization

noun (n.) The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.

desinence

noun (n.) Termination; ending.

desinent

adjective (a.) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.

desinential

adjective (a.) Terminal.

desipient

adjective (a.) Foolish; silly; trifling.

desisting

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desist

desistance

noun (n.) The act or state of desisting; cessation.

desistive

adjective (a.) Final; conclusive; ending.

desition

noun (n.) An end or ending.

desitive	noun (n.) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
	adjective (a.) Final; serving to complete; conclusive.

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (des) - Words That Begins with des:

descanting

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descant

descanter

noun (n.) One who descants.

descending	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

descendant	noun (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
	adjective (a.) Descendent.

descendent

adjective (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

descender

noun (n.) One who descends.

descendibility

noun (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

descendible	adjective (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
	adjective (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.

descension

noun (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

descensional

adjective (a.) Pertaining to descension.

descensive

adjective (a.) Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

descensory

noun (n.) A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

descent	noun (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
	noun (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
	noun (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
	noun (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
	noun (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
	noun (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
	noun (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
	noun (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
	noun (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
	noun (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

describable

adjective (a.) That can be described; capable of description.

describing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Describe

describent

noun (n.) Same as Generatrix.

describer

noun (n.) One who describes.

descrier

noun (n.) One who descries.

description	noun (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
	noun (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
	noun (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

descriptive

adjective (a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.

descrying

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descry

descry	noun (n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
	verb (v. t.) To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
	verb (v. t.) To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

desecrating

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desecrate

desecrater

noun (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner.

desecration

noun (n.) The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

desecrator

noun (n.) One who desecrates.

desegmentation

noun (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

desert	noun (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
	noun (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
	noun (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
	verb (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
	verb (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
	verb (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

deserting

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desert

deserter

noun (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

desertful

adjective (a.) Meritorious.

desertion	noun (n.) The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
	noun (n.) The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
	noun (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.

desertless

adjective (a.) Without desert.

desertness

noun (n.) A deserted condition.

desertrix

noun (n.) Alt. of Desertrice

desertrice

noun (n.) A feminine deserter.

deserving	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deserve
	noun (n.) Desert; merit.
	adjective (a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.

deservedness

noun (n.) Meritoriousness.

deserver

noun (n.) One who deserves.

deshabille

noun (n.) An undress; a careless toilet.

desk	noun (n.) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
	noun (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
	verb (v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

desking

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desk

deskwork

noun (n.) Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.

desman

noun (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.

desmid

noun (n.) Alt. of Desmidian

desmidian

noun (n.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.

desmine

noun (n.) Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

desmobacteria

noun (n. pl.) See Microbacteria.

desmodont

noun (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

desmognathous

adjective (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DES�RE:

English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 're':

debenture	noun (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
	noun (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
	noun (n.) Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.

debouchure

noun (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

decalitre

noun (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

decametre

noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

decastere

noun (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

decerniture

noun (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.

decilitre

noun (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

decimetre

noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

decistere

noun (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

declinature

noun (n.) The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.

decocture

noun (n.) A decoction.

decumbiture	noun (n.) Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.
	noun (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

defailure

noun (n.) Failure.

defeature	noun (n.) Overthrow; defeat.
	noun (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

deflexure

noun (n.) A bending or turning aside; deflection.

dejecture

noun (n.) That which is voided; excrements.

dekastere

noun (n.) Same as Decastere.

delaware

noun (n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

delftware	noun (n.) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:
	noun (n.) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

delineature

noun (n.) Delineation.

demeanure

noun (n.) Behavior.

demure	adjective (a.) Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.
	adjective (a.) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
	verb (v. i.) To look demurely.

denture

noun (n.) An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

departure	noun (n.) Division; separation; putting away.
	noun (n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
	noun (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
	noun (n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
	noun (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
	noun (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.