Name Report For First Name DOON:
DOON
First name DOON's origin is Irish. DOON means "from doon". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DOON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of doon.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with DOON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DOON - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DOON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DOON AS A WHOLE:
khaldoonNAMES RHYMING WITH DOON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (oon) - Names That Ends with oon:
laocoon maysoon ghusoonRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymon ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron acteon aeson agamemnon alcmaeon amphion amphitryon andraemon arion bellerophon biton cadmon cenon cercyon charon chiron corydon creon daemon demogorgon demophon deucalion echion endymion erysichthon euryton geryon haemon hyperion iasion iason ion ixion jason kedalion korudon ladon laomedon lycaon machaon myron ophion palaemon panteleimon phaethon phaon philemon phlegethonNAMES RHYMING WITH DOON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (doo) - Names That Begins with doo:
dooleyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (do) - Names That Begins with do:
doane doanna doba dobhailen dobi dodinel dohnatello dohosan dohtor doire doireann dolan doli dolie dolius dollie dolly dolores dolorita dolph dolphus domenica domenick domenico domenique domevlo domhnall domhnull domhnulla dominga domingart domingo dominic dominica dominick dominik dominique don dona donagh donaghy donahue donal donald donalda donall donat donata donatello donatien donato donavan donavon doncia dondre donegan donel donell donella donelle dong donia donita donkor donn donna donnachadh donnally donnan donnchadh donne donnel donnell donnelly donnie donnitta donny donogb donogh donoma donovan dontae dontay dontaye donte dontell dontrell donzel dor dora doralie doran dorbeta dorcas dorcey dordei dordie dore doreenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DOON:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
dacian daegan daelan daelyn daelynn dagan dagen dagian daijon dailyn daimhin daimmen dain dainan dairion dalan dalen dallan dallen dallin dallon dalon dalston dalton dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damian 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 davian 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 deltonEnglish Words Rhyming DOON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DOON AS A WHOLE:
| bradoon | noun (n.) Same as Bridoon. |
| bridoon | noun (n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein. |
| cardoon | noun (n.) A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad. |
| lardoon | noun (n.) A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding. |
| rigadoon | noun (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DOON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (oon) - English Words That Ends with oon:
| actinozoon | noun (n.) One of the Actinozoa. |
| afternoon | noun (n.) The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening. |
| antimonsoon | noun (n.) The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon. |
| baboon | noun (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape. |
| balloon | noun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation. |
| noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. | |
| noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. | |
| noun (n.) A bomb or shell. | |
| noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball. | |
| noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon. |
| barracoon | noun (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. |
| bassoon | noun (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc. |
| batoon | noun (n.) See Baton, and Baston. |
| bigaroon | noun (n.) The large white-heart cherry. |
| blatteroon | noun (n.) A senseless babbler or boaster. |
| boon | noun (n.) A prayer or petition. |
| noun (n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present. | |
| noun (n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage. | |
| noun (n.) Kind; bountiful; benign. | |
| noun (n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. | |
| noun (n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching. |
| buffoon | noun (n.) A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew. |
| adjective (a.) Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act the part of a buffoon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with buffoonery. |
| cacoon | noun (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. |
| cantoon | noun (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other. |
| cartoon | noun (n.) A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. |
| noun (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck." |
| ceroon | noun (n.) A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc. |
| chemiloon | noun (n.) A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one. |
| cocoon | noun (n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared. |
| noun (n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa. | |
| noun (n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs. | |
| noun (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms. |
| coon | noun (n.) A raccoon. See Raccoon. |
| croon | noun (n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur. |
| noun (n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. | |
| verb (v. t.) To soothe by singing softly. |
| doubloon | adjective (a.) A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup. |
| dragoon | noun (n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. |
| noun (n.) A variety of pigeon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. |
| ducatoon | noun (n.) A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values. |
| echoon | noun (pron.) Each one. |
| ectozoon | noun (n.) See Epizoon. |
| entozoon | noun (n.) One of the Entozoa. |
| eozoon | noun (n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure. |
| epiploon | noun (n.) See Omentum. |
| epizoon | noun (n.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoon. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans. |
| festoon | noun (n.) A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way. |
| noun (n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons. |
| floroon | noun (n.) A border worked with flowers. |
| forenoon | noun (n.) The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon. |
| frigatoon | noun (n.) A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged. |
| galloon | noun (n.) A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental. |
| noun (n.) A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. |
| gambroon | noun (n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining. |
| godroon | noun (n.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding. |
| gossoon | noun (n.) A boy; a servant. |
| haematozoon | noun (n.) A parasite inhabiting the blood |
| noun (n.) Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The trematode, Bilharzia haematobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death. |
| harpoon | noun (n.) A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon. |
| honeymoon | noun (n.) The first month after marriage. |
| hydrozoon | noun (n.) One of the Hydrozoa. |
| ilkoon | noun (pron.) Each one; every one. |
| impoon | noun (n.) The duykerbok. |
| kokoon | noun (n.) The gnu. |
| lagoon | noun (n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. |
| noun (n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. |
| lampoon | noun (n.) A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. |
| laocoon | noun (n.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.) |
| noun (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil. |
| loon | noun (n.) A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue. |
| noun (n.) Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated loon or diver (U. septentrionalis), are the best known species. See Diver. |
| macaroon | noun (n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar. |
| noun (n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni. |
| malacotoon | noun (n.) See Melocoton. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DOON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (doo) - Words That Begins with doo:
| doo | noun (n.) A dove. |
| doodle | noun (n.) A trifler; a simple fellow. |
| doodlesack | noun (n.) The Scotch bagpipe. |
| doole | noun (n.) Sorrow; dole. |
| dooly | noun (n.) A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. |
| dooming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doom |
| doomage | noun (n.) A penalty or fine for neglect. |
| doomful | adjective (a.) Full of condemnation or destructive power. |
| doomsday | noun (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. |
| noun (n.) The day of the final judgment. |
| doomsman | noun (n.) A judge; an umpire. |
| doomster | noun (n.) Same as Dempster. |
| door | noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. |
| noun (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. | |
| noun (n.) Passage; means of approach or access. | |
| noun (n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. |
| doorcase | noun (n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts. |
| doorcheek | noun (n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a door. |
| doorga | noun (n.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. |
| dooring | noun (n.) The frame of a door. |
| doorkeeper | noun (n.) One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor. |
| doorless | adjective (a.) Without a door. |
| doornail | noun (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail." |
| doorplane | noun (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. |
| doorpost | noun (n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway. |
| doorsill | noun (n.) The sill or threshold of a door. |
| doorstead | noun (n.) Entrance or place of a door. |
| doorstep | noun (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door. |
| doorstone | noun (n.) The stone forming a threshold. |
| doorstop | noun (n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door. |
| doorway | noun (n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room. |
| dooryard | noun (n.) A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house. |
| doop | noun (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DOON:
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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