Name Report For First Name DORY:
DORY
First name DORY's origin is French. DORY means "blonde". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DORY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dory.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with DORY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DORY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DORY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DORY AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH DORY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ory) - Names That Ends with ory:
jory ivory amory cory emory gregory mallory rory toryRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:
kundry tamary khairy barry avery emery perry salisbury thiery cleary ambry cherry devery hilary hillary kerry margery mary merry rosemary sherry aeary amery carbry cary conary darry dary derry ellery farry flannery gary gerry gilvarry gorry harry jeffery jeffry jerry keary larry leary montgomery mukonry murry rorry sallsbury sheary terry thierry torry zachary zackary zackery zakary dimitry stanbury kendry geary fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry corry destry devry garryNAMES RHYMING WITH DORY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dor) - Names That Begins with dor:
dor dora doralie doran dorbeta dorcas dorcey dordei dordie dore doreen doreena doren dorene dorette doria dorian dorice dorien dorika dorin dorina dorinda dorine dorion doris dorise dorit dorkas doro doron dorotea doroteia dorotha dorothea dorothee dorothy dorottya dorran dorrance dorrel dorrell dorren dorrin dorsey dortha doruRhyming 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 donavonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DORY:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'y':
dacey dacy dahy daisey daisy daizy daley daly daney danithy danny dany darby darcey darcy daudy daveney davey davy debby delancy delaney delmy delray delroy dempsey denby denley denney denny desirey destiny destrey devaney devany devenny devony devy dewey diondray donnally donnelly donny dontay dooley doy dudley duffy dunley dunly dustyEnglish Words Rhyming DORY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DORY AS A WHOLE:
| dory | noun (n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree. |
| noun (n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch. | |
| noun (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides. |
| doryphora | noun (n.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle. |
| doryphoros | noun (n.) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DORY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ory) - English Words That Ends with ory:
| abbreviatory | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. |
| abditory | noun (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
| abjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing abjuration. |
| absolutory | adjective (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving. |
| absolvatory | adjective (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory. |
| acceleratory | adjective (a.) Accelerative. |
| accessory | noun (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. |
| noun (n.) Same as Accessary, n. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. | |
| adjective (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. |
| acclamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
| accusatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. |
| additory | adjective (a.) Tending to add; making some addition. |
| adhortatory | adjective (a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
| adiaphory | noun (n.) Indifference. |
| adjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing an adjuration. |
| adjutory | adjective (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping. |
| admissory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to admission. |
| admonitory | adjective (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. |
| adstrictory | adjective (a.) See Astrictory. |
| adulatory | adjective (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. |
| advisory | adjective (a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. |
| advocatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate. |
| affirmatory | adjective (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. |
| aleatory | adjective (a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. |
| allegory | noun (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. |
| noun (n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem. | |
| noun (n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. |
| alleviatory | adjective (a.) Alleviative. |
| allusory | adjective (a.) Allusive. |
| amatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. |
| ambagitory | adjective (a.) Ambagious. |
| ambulatory | noun (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. | |
| adjective (a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a walk. | |
| adjective (a.) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. |
| amendatory | adjective (a.) Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. |
| amphigory | noun (n.) A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. |
| amplificatory | adjective (a.) Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. |
| annihilatory | adjective (a.) Annihilative. |
| annotatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations. |
| annunciatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known. |
| anticipatory | adjective (a.) Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. |
| appellatory | adjective (a.) Containing an appeal. |
| applicatory | noun (n.) That which applies. |
| adjective (a.) Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. |
| apprecatory | adjective (a.) Praying or wishing good. |
| appreciatory | adjective (a.) Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. |
| approbatory | adjective (a.) Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. |
| aratory | adjective (a.) Contributing to tillage. |
| armory | noun (n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. |
| noun (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms. | |
| noun (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. | |
| noun (n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings. | |
| noun (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor. |
| aspiratory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air |
| assentatory | adjective (a.) Flattering; obsequious. |
| assertory | adjective (a.) Affirming; maintaining. |
| asseveratory | adjective (a.) Asseverative. |
| assimilatory | adjective (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. |
| astrictory | adjective (a.) Astrictive. |
| auditory | noun (n.) An assembly of hearers; an audience. |
| noun (n.) An auditorium. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. |
| auscultatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to auscultation. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DORY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dor) - Words That Begins with dor:
| dor | noun (n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock. |
| noun (n.) A trick, joke, or deception. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a fool of; to deceive. |
| dorado | noun (n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish. |
| noun (n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena. |
| dorbeetle | noun (n.) See 1st Dor. |
| doree | noun (n.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree. |
| doretree | noun (n.) A doorpost. |
| dorhawk | noun (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. |
| dorian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion. | |
| adjective (a.) Same as Doric, 3. |
| doric | noun (n.) The Doric dialect. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war. |
| doricism | noun (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom. |
| doris | noun (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back. |
| dorism | noun (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom. |
| dormancy | noun (n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. |
| dormant | adjective (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. |
| adjective (a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. | |
| adjective (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep." |
| dormer | noun (n.) Alt. of Dormer window |
| dormer window | noun (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained. |
| dormitive | noun (n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate. |
| adjective (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. |
| dormitory | noun (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. |
| noun (n.) A burial place. |
| dormouse | noun (n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter. |
| dorn | noun (n.) A British ray; the thornback. |
| dornick | noun (n.) Alt. of Dornock |
| dornock | noun (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. |
| dorp | noun (n.) A hamlet. |
| dorr | noun (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor. |
| verb (v. t.) To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deafen with noise. |
| dorrfly | noun (n.) See 1st Dor. |
| dorrhawk | noun (n.) See Dorhawk. |
| dorsal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss. | |
| adjective (a.) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position. |
| dorsale | noun (n.) Same as Dorsal, n. |
| dorse | noun (n.) Same as dorsal, n. |
| noun (n.) The back of a book. | |
| noun (n.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish. |
| dorsel | noun (n.) A pannier. |
| noun (n.) Same as Dorsal, n. |
| dorser | noun (n.) See Dosser. |
| dorsibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.] |
| dorsibranchiate | noun (n.) One of the Dorsibranchiata. |
| adjective (a.) Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. |
| dorsimeson | noun (n.) (Anat.) See Meson. |
| dorsiparous | adjective (a.) Same as Dorsiferous. |
| dorsiventral | adjective (a.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. |
| adjective (a.) See Dorsoventral. |
| dorsoventral | adjective (a.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. |
| dorsum | noun (n.) The ridge of a hill. |
| noun (n.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue. |
| dortour | noun (n.) Alt. of Dorture |
| dorture | noun (n.) A dormitory. |
| dormy | adjective (a.) Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DORY:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'y':
| dacoity | noun (n.) The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits. |
| dactyliography | noun (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems. |
| noun (n.) In general, the literature or history of the art. |
| dactyliology | noun (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving. |
| noun (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings. |
| dactyliomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of finger rings. |
| dactylology | noun (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. |
| dactylomancy | noun (n.) Dactyliomancy. |
| dactylonomy | noun (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. |
| daddy | noun (n.) Diminutive of Dad. |
| daguerreotypy | noun (n.) The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre. |
| daily | noun (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies. |
| adjective (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. | |
| adverb (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily. |
| dainty | noun (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. |
| noun (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. | |
| noun (n.) A term of fondness. | |
| superlative (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly. | |
| superlative (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome. | |
| superlative (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender. | |
| superlative (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious. |
| dairy | noun (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. |
| noun (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese. | |
| noun (n.) A dairy farm. |
| daisy | noun (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. |
| noun (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. |
| dakoity | noun (n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity. |
| damnability | noun (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness. |
| damnatory | adjective (a.) Dooming to damnation; condemnatory. |
| dampy | adjective (a.) Somewhat damp. |
| adjective (a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. |
| dancy | adjective (a.) Same as Dancette. |
| dandy | noun (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. |
| noun (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. | |
| noun (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen. | |
| noun (n.) A dandy roller. See below. |
| dangleberry | noun (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward. |
| daphnomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of the laurel. |
| darby | noun (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc. |
| darky | noun (n.) A negro. |
| dashy | adjective (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. |
| dastardly | adjective (a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage. |
| dastardy | noun (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness. |
| datary | noun (n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria. |
| noun (n.) The office or employment of a datary. |
| daubery | noun (n.) Alt. of Daubry |
| daubry | noun (n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. |
| dauby | adjective (a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. |
| daughterly | adjective (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial. |
| day | noun (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine. |
| noun (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below. | |
| noun (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. | |
| noun (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. | |
| noun (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. |
| dayfly | noun (n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. |
| deaconry | noun (n.) See Deaconship. |
| deadly | adjective (a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. |
| adjective (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. | |
| adjective (a.) Subject to death; mortal. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally. | |
| adverb (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively. | |
| adverb (adv.) Extremely. |
| deafly | adjective (a.) Lonely; solitary. |
| adverb (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely. |
| deambulatory | noun (n.) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. |
| adjective (a.) Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. |
| deanery | noun (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3. |
| noun (n.) The residence of a dean. | |
| noun (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. |
| deary | noun (n.) A dear; a darling. |
| deathly | adjective (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. |
| adverb (adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick. |
| debauchery | noun (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. |
| noun (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. |
| debility | adjective (a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. |
| debonairity | noun (n.) Debonairness. |
| decadency | noun (n.) A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence." |
| decay | noun (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. |
| noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
| noun (n.) Cause of decay. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy. |
| decency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. |
| noun (n.) That which is proper or becoming. |
| decennary | noun (n.) A period of ten years. |
| noun (n.) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families. |
| decennovary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. |
| deceptivity | noun (n.) Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. |
| deceptory | adjective (a.) Deceptive. |
| deciduity | noun (n.) Deciduousness. |
| decipiency | noun (n.) State of being deceived; hallucination. |
| decisory | adjective (a.) Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide. |
| declamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. |
| declaratory | adjective (a.) Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature. |
| declinatory | adjective (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. |
| declivity | noun (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity. |
| noun (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place. |
| decoy | noun (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. |
| noun (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot. | |
| noun (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them. | |
| noun (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. |
| decretory | adjective (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to determine; critical. |
| decumbency | noun (n.) The act or posture of lying down. |
| decury | noun (n.) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. |
| dedicatory | noun (n.) Dedication. |
| adjective (a.) Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. |
| deducibility | noun (n.) Deducibleness. |
| deedy | adjective (a.) Industrious; active. |
| deerberry | noun (n.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry. |
| defamatory | adjective (a.) Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings. |
| defectibility | noun (n.) Deficiency; imperfection. |
| defectuosity | noun (n.) Great imperfection. |
| defensibility | noun (n.) Capability of being defended. |
| defensory | adjective (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations. |
| defervescency | noun (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. |
| noun (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia. |
| defiatory | adjective (a.) Bidding or manifesting defiance. |
| deficiency | noun (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. |
| deflagrability | noun (n.) The state or quality of being deflagrable. |
| deformity | adjective (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. |
| adjective (a.) Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. |
| defy | noun (n.) A challenge. |
| verb (v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion. |
| degeneracy | adjective (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. |
| adjective (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. |
| deglutitory | adjective (a.) Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition. |
| dehortatory | adjective (a.) Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. |
| deiformity | noun (n.) Likeness to deity. |
| deity | noun (n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. |
| noun (n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god. |
| dejectory | adjective (a.) Having power, or tending, to cast down. |
| adjective (a.) Promoting evacuations by stool. |
| delay | noun (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. |
| noun (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. | |
| noun (n.) To allay; to temper. | |
| verb (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. |
| delegacy | adjective (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. |
| adjective (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. |
| delegatory | adjective (a.) Holding a delegated position. |
| deletery | noun (n.) That which destroys. |
| adjective (a.) Destructive; poisonous. |
| deletory | noun (n.) That which blots out. |
| delicacy | adjective (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. |
| adjective (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. | |
| adjective (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. | |
| adjective (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance. | |
| adjective (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. | |
| adjective (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight. |
| delineatory | adjective (a.) That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating. |
| delinquency | noun (n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. |
| deliracy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| delirancy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| delitescency | noun (n.) Concealment; seclusion. |
| delivery | noun (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. |
| noun (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters. | |
| noun (n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. | |
| noun (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. | |
| noun (n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. | |
| noun (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery. |
| delusory | adjective (a.) Delusive; fallacious. |
| demagogy | noun (n.) Demagogism. |
| demency | noun (n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity. |
| demisability | noun (n.) The state of being demisable. |
| demissionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade. |
| democracy | noun (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
| noun (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. | |
| noun (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. | |
| noun (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
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