DERWENT
First name DERWENT's origin is English. DERWENT means "surname referring to derwent river in england". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DERWENT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of derwent.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DERWENT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming DERWENT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DERWENT AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH DERWENT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (erwent) - Names That Ends with erwent:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (rwent) - Names That Ends with rwent:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (went) - Names That Ends with went:
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ent) - Names That Ends with ent:
kent bent devent advent brent graent laurent trent vincent avent millicent crescent innocent sargent trevrizent quentRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nt) - Names That Ends with nt:
yervant escorant gallehant moraunt rhongomyant agramant sacripant toussaint lorant creissant anant arnt bliant brant briant bryant calogrenant clint conant diamont dumont flint flynt fremont frimunt grant hunt lamont oliphant osmont pierrepont toussnint waldmunt pierpont rhodant jacint geraint valiant clarissant meleagant pant delmont durant durrant quintNAMES RHYMING WITH DERWENT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (derwen) - Names That Begins with derwen:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (derwe) - Names That Begins with derwe:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (derw) - Names That Begins with derw:
derwan derward derwin derwynRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (der) - Names That Begins with der:
der derald derebourne dereck derek dereka derell derforgal derforgala derham derian derica derick dericka derik dermod dermot deron derora derorice derorit derrall derrance derrek derrell derren derrian derrica derrick derrik derrill derrin derrold derry derryl derval dervilia dervin dervla dervon dervorgilla deryck derykRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:
dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere dechtire decla declan dedr dedre dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandra deeann deeanna deedra deegan deems deenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DERWENT:
First Names which starts with 'der' and ends with 'ent':
First Names which starts with 'de' and ends with 'nt':
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 't':
daedbot dagonet daguenet dalbert dalit damhnait danit dat davet daviot dawit delbert delight delit demet dennet desirat devnet dewitt domingart donat dorit downett drust dwightEnglish Words Rhyming DERWENT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DERWENT AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DERWENT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (erwent) - English Words That Ends with erwent:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (rwent) - English Words That Ends with rwent:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (went) - English Words That Ends with went:
went | noun (n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction. |
(imp.) of Go | |
() of Wend | |
() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ent) - English Words That Ends with ent:
abandonment | noun (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. |
noun (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. | |
noun (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. | |
noun (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion. | |
noun (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon. |
abasement | noun (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. |
abashment | noun (n.) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame. |
abatement | noun (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. |
noun (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed. | |
noun (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. | |
noun (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. |
abetment | noun (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc. |
abhorrent | adjective (a.) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. |
adjective (a.) Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to. | |
adjective (a.) Detestable. |
abiliment | noun (n.) Habiliment. |
abjurement | noun (n.) Renunciation. |
abluent | noun (n.) A detergent. |
adjective (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. |
abodement | noun (n.) A foreboding; an omen. |
abolishment | noun (n.) The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. |
aborsement | noun (n.) Abortment; abortion. |
abortifacient | noun (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery. |
verb (v.) Producing miscarriage. |
abortment | noun (n.) Abortion. |
abridgment | noun (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses. |
noun (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. | |
noun (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. |
absent | adjective (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. |
adjective (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent. | |
adjective (a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. | |
verb (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. | |
verb (v. t.) To withhold from being present. |
absentment | noun (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal. |
absolvent | noun (n.) An absolver. |
adjective (a.) Absolving. |
absorbent | noun (n.) Anything which absorbs. |
noun (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts. | |
noun (n.) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. | |
adjective (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. |
abstergent | noun (n.) A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent. |
adjective (a.) Serving to cleanse, detergent. |
abstinent | noun (n.) One who abstains. |
noun (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century. | |
adjective (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. |
abutment | noun (n.) State of abutting. |
noun (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses | |
noun (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. | |
noun (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc. | |
noun (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil. |
acaulescent | adjective (a.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. |
accent | noun (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others. |
noun (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents. | |
noun (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. | |
noun (n.) A word; a significant tone | |
noun (n.) expressions in general; speech. | |
noun (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. | |
noun (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. | |
noun (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. | |
noun (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period. | |
noun (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. | |
noun (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y". | |
noun (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27", i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds. | |
noun (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10" is six feet ten inches. | |
verb (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. | |
verb (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize. |
accident | noun (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. |
noun (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. | |
noun (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. | |
noun (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. | |
noun (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. | |
noun (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. | |
noun (n.) Unusual appearance or effect. |
accipient | noun (n.) A receiver. |
acclimatement | noun (n.) Acclimation. |
accompaniment | noun (n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. |
noun (n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass. |
accomplishment | noun (n.) The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc. |
noun (n.) That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. |
accouchement | noun (n.) Delivery in childbed |
accouplement | noun (n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. |
noun (n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace. |
accrescent | adjective (a.) Growing; increasing. |
adjective (a.) Growing larger after flowering. |
accroachment | noun (n.) An encroachment; usurpation. |
accrument | noun (n.) The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. |
accumbent | noun (n.) One who reclines at table. |
adjective (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. | |
adjective (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. |
accusement | noun (n.) Accusation. |
acescent | noun (n.) A substance liable to become sour. |
adjective (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. |
acharnement | noun (n.) Savage fierceness; ferocity. |
achievement | noun (n.) The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. |
noun (n.) A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat. | |
noun (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. |
acidulent | adjective (a.) Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. |
acknowledgment | noun (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. |
noun (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. | |
noun (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks. | |
noun (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. | |
noun (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. |
acquiescent | adjective (a.) Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy. |
acquirement | noun (n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. |
acquitment | noun (n.) Acquittal. |
additament | noun (n.) An addition, or a thing added. |
adducent | adjective (a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent. |
adherent | noun (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church. |
noun (n.) That which adheres; an appendage. | |
adjective (a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering. | |
adjective (a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance. | |
adjective (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. |
adipescent | adjective (a.) Becoming fatty. |
adjacent | noun (n.) That which is adjacent. |
adjective (a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. |
adjournment | noun (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. |
noun (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DERWENT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (derwen) - Words That Begins with derwen:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (derwe) - Words That Begins with derwe:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (derw) - Words That Begins with derw:
derworth | adjective (a.) Precious. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (der) - Words That Begins with der:
deracinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deracinate |
deraination | noun (n.) The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. |
deraignment | noun (n.) Alt. of Derainment |
derainment | noun (n.) The act of deraigning. |
noun (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. |
derailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derail |
derailment | noun (n.) The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad. |
deranging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derange |
deranged | adjective (a.) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Derange |
derangement | noun (n.) The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. |
deranger | noun (n.) One who deranges. |
deray | noun (n.) Disorder; merriment. |
derbio | noun (n.) A large European food fish (Lichia glauca). |
derby | noun (n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780. |
noun (n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown. |
dere | noun (n.) Harm. |
verb (v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure. |
derelict | noun (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. |
noun (n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. | |
adjective (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. | |
adjective (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. |
dereliction | noun (n.) The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. |
noun (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment. | |
noun (n.) The state of being left or abandoned. | |
noun (n.) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. |
dereling | noun (n.) Darling. |
noun (n.) Darling. |
derf | adjective (a.) Strong; powerful; fierce. |
deriding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deride |
derider | noun (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. |
derision | noun (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. |
noun (n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock. |
derisive | adjective (a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. |
derisory | adjective (a.) Derisive; mocking. |
derivable | adjective (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. |
derival | noun (n.) Derivation. |
derivate | noun (n.) A thing derived; a derivative. |
adjective (a.) Derived; derivative. | |
verb (v. t.) To derive. |
derivation | noun (n.) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. |
noun (n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. | |
noun (n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. | |
noun (n.) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. | |
noun (n.) That from which a thing is derived. | |
noun (n.) That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. | |
noun (n.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. | |
noun (n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. | |
noun (n.) The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word. |
derivational | adjective (a.) Relating to derivation. |
derivative | noun (n.) That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another. |
noun (n.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root. | |
noun (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord. | |
noun (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense). | |
noun (n.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process. | |
noun (n.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. |
deriving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derive |
derivement | noun (n.) That which is derived; deduction; inference. |
deriver | noun (n.) One who derives. |
derk | adjective (a.) Dark. |
derma | noun (n.) See Dermis. |
dermal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin. |
dermaptera | noun (n.) Alt. of Dermapteran |
dermapteran | noun (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran. |
dermatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dermatine |
dermatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the skin. |
dermatitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the skin. |
dermatogen | noun (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition. |
noun (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition. |
dermatography | noun (n.) An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin. |
dermatoid | adjective (a.) Resembling skin; skinlike. |
dermatologist | noun (n.) One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology. |
dermatology | noun (n.) The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases. |
dermatopathic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure. |
dermatophyte | noun (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin. |
dermestes | noun (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle. |
dermestoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. |
dermic | adjective (a.) Relating to the derm or skin. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DERWENT:
English Words which starts with 'der' and ends with 'ent':
English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 'nt':
debarment | noun (n.) Hindrance from approach; exclusion. |
debasement | noun (n.) The act of debasing or the state of being debased. |
debatement | noun (n.) Controversy; deliberation; debate. |
debauchment | noun (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. |
debilitant | adjective (a.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug. |
deboshment | noun (n.) Debauchment. |
decadent | noun (n.) One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a certain school of modern French writers. |
adjective (a.) Decaying; deteriorating. |
decampment | noun (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off. |
decedent | noun (n.) A deceased person. |
adjective (a.) Removing; departing. |
decent | adjective (a.) Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language. |
adjective (a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest. | |
adjective (a.) Comely; shapely; well-formed. | |
adjective (a.) Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. |
decidement | noun (n.) Means of forming a decision. |
decipherment | noun (n.) The act of deciphering. |
declaimant | noun (n.) A declaimer. |
declarant | noun (n.) One who declares. |
declarement | noun (n.) Declaration. |
decolorant | noun (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches. |
decorement | noun (n.) Ornament. |
decrement | noun (n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. |
noun (n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment. | |
noun (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced. | |
noun (n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished. |
decrescent | noun (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister. |
adjective (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon. |
decumbent | adjective (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. |
adjective (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. |
decurrent | adjective (a.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem. |
dedolent | adjective (a.) Feeling no compunction; apathetic. |
deducement | noun (n.) Inference; deduction; thing deduced. |
defacement | noun (n.) The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration. |
noun (n.) That which mars or disfigures. |
defendant | noun (n.) One who defends; a defender. |
noun (n.) A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff. | |
adjective (a.) Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. | |
adjective (a.) Making defense. |
deferent | noun (n.) That which carries or conveys. |
noun (n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round. | |
adjective (a.) Serving to carry; bearing. |
deferment | noun (n.) The act of delaying; postponement. |
defiant | adjective (a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act. |
deficient | adjective (a.) Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. |
defilement | noun (n.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side. |
noun (n.) The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. |
definement | noun (n.) The act of defining; definition; description. |
deforcement | noun (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. |
noun (n.) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law. |
deforciant | noun (n.) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. |
noun (n.) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought. |
defraudment | noun (n.) Privation by fraud; defrauding. |
defrayment | noun (n.) Payment of charges. |
degarnishment | noun (n.) The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. |
degradement | noun (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. |
dehiscent | adjective (a.) Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant. |
delayment | noun (n.) Hindrance. |
delinquent | noun (n.) Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty. |
noun (n.) One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit. |
deliquescent | adjective (a.) Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts. |
adjective (a.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. |
delirament | noun (n.) A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. |
delirant | adjective (a.) Delirious. |
deliriant | noun (n.) A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna). |
delirifacient | noun (n.) Any substance which tends to cause delirium. |
adjective (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. |
delitescent | adjective (a.) Lying hid; concealed. |
demandant | noun (n.) One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff. |
dement | adjective (a.) Demented; dementate. |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of reason; to make mad. |
demitint | noun (n.) That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light. |
noun (n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint. |
demolishment | noun (n.) Demolition. |
demulcent | noun (n.) A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents. |
adjective (a.) Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent. |
denotement | noun (n.) Sign; indication. |
denouement | noun (n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance. |
noun (n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome. |
denouncement | noun (n.) Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. |
dent | noun (n.) A stroke; a blow. |
noun (n.) A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. | |
noun (n.) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a dent upon; to indent. |
deobstruent | noun (n.) A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient. |
adjective (a.) Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. |
deodorant | noun (n.) A deodorizer. |
depascent | adjective (a.) Feeding. |
dependant | noun (n.) Alt. of Dependancy |
dependent | noun (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents. |
noun (n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence. | |
adjective (a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. | |
adjective (a.) Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. |
deplorement | noun (n.) Deploration. |
deployment | noun (n.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. |
deponent | adjective (a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs. |
verb (v. t.) One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing. | |
verb (v. t.) A deponent verb. |
deportment | noun (n.) Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. |
depravement | noun (n.) Depravity. |
depressant | noun (n.) An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers. |
depriment | adjective (a.) Serving to depress. |
deprivement | noun (n.) Deprivation. |
depurant | noun (a. & n.) Depurative. |
derogant | adjective (a.) Derogatory. |
descendant | noun (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. |
adjective (a.) Descendent. |
descendent | adjective (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. |
descent | noun (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. |
noun (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. | |
noun (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc. | |
noun (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. | |
noun (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. | |
noun (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent. | |
noun (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue. | |
noun (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation. | |
noun (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place. | |
noun (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone. |
describent | noun (n.) Same as Generatrix. |
desiccant | noun (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore. |
adjective (a.) Drying; desiccative. |
desightment | noun (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement. |
designment | noun (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. |
noun (n.) Design; purpose; scheme. |
desinent | adjective (a.) Ending; forming an end; lowermost. |
desipient | adjective (a.) Foolish; silly; trifling. |
desmodont | noun (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire. |
despisement | noun (n.) A despising. |
despoilment | noun (n.) Despoliation. |
despondent | adjective (a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. |
destituent | adjective (a.) Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition. |
detachment | noun (n.) The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. |
noun (n.) That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. | |
noun (n.) Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. |
detainment | noun (n.) Detention. |
detent | noun (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. |
detergent | noun (n.) A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc. |
adjective (a.) Cleansing; purging. |
determent | noun (n.) The act of deterring; also, that which deters. |
determinant | noun (n.) That which serves to determine; that which causes determination. |
noun (n.) The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws | |
noun (n.) A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise. | |
adjective (a.) Serving to determine or limit; determinative. |
deterrent | noun (n.) That which deters or prevents. |
adjective (a.) Serving to deter. |
dethronement | noun (n.) Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power. |
detriment | noun (n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. |
noun (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. | |
verb (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt. |
development | noun (n.) The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. |
noun (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. | |
noun (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning. | |
noun (n.) The equivalent expression into which another has been developed. | |
noun (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. |
deviant | adjective (a.) Deviating. |
devilment | noun (n.) Deviltry. |
devolvement | noun (n.) The act or process of devolving;; devolution. |
devotement | noun (n.) The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. |