Name Report For First Name DIAN:
DIAN
First name DIAN's origin is French. DIAN means "divine. mythological ancient roman divinity diana was noted for beauty and swiftness: often depicted as a huntress. also diana princess of wales". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DIAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dian.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with DIAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DIAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DIAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DƯAN AS A WHOLE:
dianthe adianna diana dianda diandra diandre diane dianna diannah dianne diantha indiana kadian odiana odiane anbidian ealdian treddianNAMES RHYMING WITH DƯAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ian) - Names That Ends with ian:
lilian bian germian sofian bedrosian izmirlian korian cyprian kristian sebastian urian iulian octavian traian burian christian dagian gillian jilian jillian lillian lorian marian millian vivian adrian aidrian andrian blian brian cassian cian cillian cristian davian derrian dorian eldrian evian fabian favian finian finnian gabrian gremian ian jadarian jamian jorian julian kavian khristian kian kilian killian laurian lucian maximilian o'brian ossian rian trevian wacian xavian gian damian andswarian erian arian astyrian derian gaderian leanian lufian nerian tilian trymian warian werian wissian hadrian dacian maximillian tristian torrianRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siranNAMES RHYMING WITH DƯAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dia) - Names That Begins with dia:
dia diahann diahna diamanda diamanta diamante diamon diamond diamonique diamont diamontina diara diarmaidRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (di) - Names That Begins with di:
dibe dice dichali dick dickran dickson didier dido didrika diederich diedre diedrick diega diego dien diep diera dierck dierdre dieter dietrich dietz digna diji dike dikesone dikran dilan dillan dillen dillin dillion dillon dimitrie dimitry dimitur din dina dinadan dinah dinar dinas dino dinora dinorah dinsmore diogo diolmhain diomasach diomedes dion diona diondra diondray diondre dione dionis dionisa dionna dionne dionte dionysia dionysie dionysius dior diorbhall dirce dirck dirk dita diti diu div diva divon divone divsha divshah divyanshu dix dixie dixonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DƯAN:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
daegan daelan daelyn daelynn daemon dagan dagen daijon dailyn daimhin daimmen dain dainan dairion dalan dalen dallan dallen dallin dallon dalon dalston dalton dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damiean damien damon dan danathon daniel-sean dann dannon danon danton danylynn daran dareen daren darien darin darleen darolyn daron darrellyn darren darrin darron darryn dartagnan darton darvin darwin darwyn darylyn daryn daveen daveon davidson davin davion davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton dayveon deacon deagan deaglan deakin dean deann dearborn deasmumhan deavon declan deeann deegan deen dehaan deikun delbin delman delmon delron delsin delton delvin delvon demanEnglish Words Rhyming DIAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DƯAN AS A WHOLE:
| acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
| accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| adiantum | noun (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort. |
| antemeridian | adjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.) |
| aphidian | noun (n.) One of the aphides; an aphid. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae. |
| arcadian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Arcadic |
| ascidian | noun (n.) One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj. |
| asteridian | noun (n.) A starfish; one of the Asterioidea. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. |
| badian | noun (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise. |
| barbadian | noun (n.) A native of Barbados. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados. |
| bodian | noun (n.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies. |
| canadian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada. |
| chalcidian | noun (n.) One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs. |
| circummeridian | adjective (a.) About, or near, the meridian. |
| coguardian | noun (n.) A joint guardian. |
| comedian | noun (n.) An actor or player in comedy. |
| noun (n.) A writer of comedy. |
| custodian | noun (n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent. |
| custodianship | noun (n.) Office or duty of a custodian. |
| cycloidian | noun (a. & n.) Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid. |
| 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. |
| dian | adjective (a.) Diana. |
| diana | noun (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. |
| diandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens. |
| diandrian | adjective (a.) Diandrous. |
| diandrous | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens. |
| dianium | noun (n.) Same as Columbium. |
| dianoetic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. |
| dianoialogy | noun (n.) The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations. |
| dianthus | noun (n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William. |
| dravidian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida. |
| east indian | noun (n.) A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies. |
| () Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. |
| elodian | noun (n.) One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn. |
| encyclopedian | adjective (a.) Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects. |
| epicedian | noun (n.) An epicede. |
| adjective (a.) Epicedial. |
| euclidian | noun (n.) Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid. |
| falcidian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. |
| ganoidian | noun (a. & n.) Ganoid. |
| gaydiang | noun (n.) A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk. |
| gordian | noun (n.) One of the Gordiacea. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea. |
| guardian | adjective (a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care. |
| verb (v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden. | |
| verb (v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. |
| guardianage | noun (n.) Guardianship. |
| guardiance | noun (n.) Guardianship. |
| guardianess | noun (n.) A female guardian. |
| guardianless | adjective (a.) Without a guardian. |
| guardianship | noun (n.) The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. |
| hebridian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. |
| herodian | noun (n.) One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ. |
| indian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of India. |
| noun (n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like. |
| indianeer | noun (n.) An Indiaman. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DƯAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ian) - English Words That Ends with ian:
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| noun (n.) A collegian. |
| acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
| achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
| acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
| acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
| adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
| adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
| aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
| aeonian | adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
| aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
| agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
| noun (n.) An agrarian law. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. | |
| adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
| alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
| albanian | noun (n.) A native of Albania. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. |
| albigensian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
| aleutian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
| alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
| algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
| allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
| alogian | noun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. |
| alphabetarian | noun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. |
| alsatian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Alsatia. |
| altaian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic |
| altitudinarian | adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. |
| amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| amazonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley. |
| ambrosian | adjective (a.) Ambrosial. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. |
| ametabolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis. |
| amoebian | noun (n.) One of the Amoebea. |
| amphibian | noun (n.) One of the Amphibia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. |
| amphicoelian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous |
| anglian | noun (n.) One of the Angles. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles. |
| antediluvian | noun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. |
| anthobian | noun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers. |
| anthropophaginian | noun (n.) One who east human flesh. |
| antichristian | adjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion. |
| antinomian | noun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory. |
| antiochian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. |
| antiphlogistian | noun (n.) An opposer of the theory of phlogiston. |
| antiquarian | noun (n.) An antiquary. |
| noun (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature. |
| antiquitarian | noun (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] |
| antisabbatarian | noun (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath. |
| anythingarian | noun (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. |
| aonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DƯAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dia) - Words That Begins with dia:
| diabase | noun (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone. |
| diabaterial | adjective (a.) Passing over the borders. |
| diabetes | noun (n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. |
| diabetic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diabetical |
| diabetical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment. |
| diablerie | noun (n.) Alt. of Diabley |
| diabley | noun (n.) Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief. |
| diabolic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diabolical |
| diabolical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act. |
| diabolism | noun (n.) Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil. |
| noun (n.) Possession by the devil. |
| diacatholicon | noun (n.) A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary. |
| diacaustic | noun (n.) That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery. |
| noun (n.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic. |
| diachylon | noun (n.) Alt. of Diachylum |
| diachylum | noun (n.) A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids. |
| diacid | adjective (a.) Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid. |
| diacodium | noun (n.) A sirup made of poppies. |
| diaconal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a deacon. |
| diaconate | noun (n.) The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons. |
| adjective (a.) Governed by deacons. |
| diacope | noun (n.) Tmesis. |
| diacoustic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds. |
| diacoustics | noun (n.) That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics. |
| diacritic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diacritical |
| diacritical | adjective (a.) That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc. |
| diactinic | adjective (a.) Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media. |
| diadelphia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments. |
| diadelphian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diadelphous |
| diadelphous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens). |
| diadem | noun (n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. |
| noun (n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown. | |
| noun (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown. |
| diadrom | noun (n.) A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum. |
| diaeresis | noun (n.) Alt. of Dieresis |
| diaeretic | adjective (a.) Caustic. |
| diageotropic | adjective (a.) Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism. |
| diageotropism | noun (n.) The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth. |
| diaglyph | noun (n.) An intaglio. |
| diaglyphic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diaglyphtic |
| diaglyphtic | adjective (a.) Represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to anaglyphic. |
| diagnosis | noun (n.) The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at. |
| noun (n.) Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species. | |
| noun (n.) Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character. |
| diagnostic | noun (n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease. |
| diagnostics | noun (n.) That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs. |
| diagometer | noun (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. |
| diagonal | noun (n.) A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts. |
| noun (n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel. | |
| noun (n.) A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving. | |
| adjective (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. |
| diagonial | adjective (a.) Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed. |
| diagram | noun (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan. |
| noun (n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram. |
| diagrammatic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram. |
| diagraph | noun (n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale. |
| diagraphic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diagraphical |
| diagraphical | adjective (a.) Descriptive. |
| diagraphics | noun (n.) The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule. |
| diaheliotropic | adjective (a.) Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism. |
| diaheliotropism | noun (n.) A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DƯAN:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
| dacian | noun (n.) A native of ancient Dacia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. |
| daedalian | adjective (a.) Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. |
| adjective (a.) Crafty; deceitful. |
| daemon | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic |
| dagon | noun (n.) A slip or piece. |
| () The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. |
| dagswain | noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. |
| daguerrean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daguerreian |
| daguerreian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype. |
| dahlin | noun (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin. |
| dairyman | noun (n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy. |
| dairywoman | noun (n.) A woman who attends to a dairy. |
| dalesman | noun (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. |
| dalmatian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. |
| daltonian | noun (n.) One afflicted with color blindness. |
| daman | noun (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax. |
| damaskin | noun (n.) A sword of Damask steel. |
| damassin | noun (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade. |
| damnation | noun (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation. |
| noun (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. | |
| noun (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. |
| damnification | noun (n.) That which causes damage or loss. |
| damson | noun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum. |
| dan | noun (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. |
| noun (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines. |
| dandelion | noun (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves. |
| dantean | adjective (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings. |
| danubian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube. |
| daphnetin | noun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin. |
| daphnin | noun (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant. |
| noun (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina. |
| dardanian | noun (a. & n.) Trojan. |
| darken | adjective (a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. |
| adjective (a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision. | |
| adjective (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. | |
| adjective (a.) To cast a gloom upon. | |
| adjective (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow or darker. |
| darn | noun (n.) A place mended by darning. |
| verb (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. | |
| verb (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn. |
| darrein | adjective (a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. |
| darwinian | noun (n.) An advocate of Darwinism. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. |
| datiscin | noun (n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina). |
| daun | noun (n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor. |
| dauphin | noun (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued. |
| dawn | noun (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. |
| noun (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. | |
| verb (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. | |
| verb (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. |
| daysman | noun (n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. |
| daywoman | noun (n.) A dairymaid. |
| deacon | noun (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church. |
| noun (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company. | |
| verb (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off. | |
| verb (v. t.) With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc. |
| deadborn | adjective (a.) Stillborn. |
| deaden | adjective (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. |
| adjective (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. | |
| adjective (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. | |
| adjective (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. |
| dealbation | noun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening. |
| deambulation | noun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading. |
| dean | noun (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop. |
| noun (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. | |
| noun (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities. | |
| noun (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. | |
| noun (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy. |
| dearborn | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides. |
| dearn | adjective (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. |
| verb (v. t.) Same as Darn. |
| deathsman | noun (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman. |
| deauration | noun (n.) Act of gilding. |
| debacchation | noun (n.) Wild raving or debauchery. |
| debarkation | noun (n.) Disembarkation. |
| debellation | noun (n.) The act of conquering or subduing. |
| debilitation | noun (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness. |
| debituminization | noun (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen. |
| debulition | noun (n.) A bubbling or boiling over. |
| decachordon | noun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp. |
| noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts. |
| decagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal. |
| decagynian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous |
| decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
| decalcification | noun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter. |
| decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
| decandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous |
| decantation | noun (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. |
| decapitation | noun (n.) The act of beheading; beheading. |
| decarbonization | noun (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon. |
| decarburization | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing. |
| decentralization | noun (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. |
| deception | noun (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading. |
| noun (n.) The state of being deceived or misled. | |
| noun (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. |
| decerption | noun (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping. |
| noun (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. |
| decertation | noun (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife. |
| decession | noun (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion. |
| decillion | noun (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.] |
| decimation | noun (n.) A tithing. |
| noun (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. | |
| noun (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. |
| decision | noun (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. |
| noun (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. | |
| noun (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. | |
| noun (n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision. |
| declamation | noun (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. |
| noun (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. | |
| noun (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. |
| declaration | noun (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc. |
| noun (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal. | |
| noun (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington). | |
| noun (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. |
| declension | noun (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. |
| noun (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. | |
| noun (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. | |
| noun (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined. |
| declination | noun (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. |
| noun (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. | |
| noun (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. | |
| noun (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. | |
| noun (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. | |
| noun (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south. | |
| noun (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4. |
| decoction | noun (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. |
| noun (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. |
| decollation | noun (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. |
| noun (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. |
| decoloration | noun (n.) The removal or absence of color. |
| decomposition | noun (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc. |
| noun (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements. | |
| noun (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. |
| deconcentration | noun (n.) Act of deconcentrating. |
| decoration | noun (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
| noun (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. |
| decortication | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat. |
| decreation | noun (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation. |
| decrepitation | noun (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. |
| decretion | noun (n.) A decrease. |
| decrustation | noun (n.) The removal of a crust. |
| decubation | noun (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence. |
| decuman | adjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. |
| decurion | noun (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers. |
| decursion | noun (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. |
| decurtation | noun (n.) Act of cutting short. |
| decussation | noun (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. |
| dedalian | adjective (a.) See Daedalian. |
| dedecoration | noun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor. |
| dedentition | noun (n.) The shedding of teeth. |
| dedication | noun (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. |
| noun (n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use. | |
| noun (n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor. |
| dedition | noun (n.) The act of yielding; surrender. |
| deduction | noun (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring. |
| noun (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend. | |
| noun (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. | |
| noun (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent. |
| deduplication | noun (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster. |
| deerskin | noun (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. |
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