Name Report For First Name DES:
DES
First name DES's origin is English. DES means "abbreviation of names beginning with des". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DES below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of des.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DES and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DES - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DES
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DES AS A WHOLE:
alesandese desma desmona hyades odessa desmond agamedes alcides atreides diomedes lycomedes pylades abantiades anglides desanka desarae desaree desideria desilyn desirae desirat desire desiree desirey destina desyre gertrudes lourdes louredes mercedes modesta modeste deshawn desiderio destan destin deston leonides palamedes palsmedes pslomydes rodes tadesuz desm rhodes palomydes desdemona desta morcades henbeddestr destanee destine destinee destini destinie destiny destrey destrie destryNAMES RHYMING WITH DES (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (es) - Names That Ends with es:
agnes atropes ceres erinyes keres numees pules el-marees farees mounafes tiridates calles eliaures gesnes kanelingres benes devries bes menes psusennes ramses styles atlantes jacques acestes achates achilles aeetes anchises antiphates ares cebriones chryses corybantes damocles eteocles eupeithes gilles gyes hercules hermes hippomenes iobates iphicles laertes laestrygones melecertes oles orestes philoctetes pityocamptes polites polydeuces polynices procrustes socrates thersites thyestes ulysses xerxes zelotes zetes mozes rares anlicnes brites delores dolores eadignes ines lyones ynes ames andres aries bates brandeles byrnes eames eulises fitzjames forbes giannes hayes hughes innes ionnes ives james jannes jaques jaymes johannes kanelinqes maahes macinnes menzies miles moises montesNAMES RHYMING WITH DES (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:
dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere dechtire decla declan dedr dedre dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandra deeann deeanna deedra deegan deems deen deena deerwa deerward defena dehaan deheune deianira deidra deidre deiene deikun deina deiphobus deirdra deirdre deja deka deke dekel dekle del delaine delancy delane delaney delanie delano delbert delbin delbina delbine delcine delfi delfina delia delice delicia delight delila delilah delinda delisa delisha delissa delit deliza dellNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DES:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 's':
dabbous daedalus daileass dalis dallas dallis damaris damaskenos damaskinos damis danaus daphnis dardanus darius darrius dassais dassous davis deloris delphinus demarcus demas demetrius demodocus demos denes denis dennis dennys denys devoss dhimitrios dinas dionis dionysius dnias dolius dolphus dorcas doris dorkas doughlas douglas douglass druas dryhus dubhglasEnglish Words Rhyming DES
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DES AS A WHOLE:
abdest | noun (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. |
adesmy | noun (n.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire. |
adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
alectorides | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants. |
andesine | noun (n.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes. |
andesite | noun (n.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene. |
androides | noun (n.) A machine or automaton in the form of a human being. |
antipodes | noun (n.) Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite. |
noun (n.) The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. | |
noun (n.) Anything exactly opposite or contrary. |
aphides | noun (n. pl.) See Aphis. |
(pl. ) of Aphis |
apodes | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels. |
noun (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona. | |
(pl. ) of Apode |
apsides | noun (n. pl.) See Apsis. |
(pl. ) of Apsis |
archimedes | noun (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw. |
atlantides | noun (n. pl.) The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas. |
arthrodesis | noun (n.) Surgical fixation of joints. |
bedesman | noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. |
noun (n.) Same as Beadsman. |
bedeswoman | noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman. |
bladesmith | noun (n.) A sword cutler. |
bridesmaid | noun (n.) A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding. |
bridesman | noun (n.) A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." |
bridestake | noun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. |
bundesrath | noun (n.) The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called. |
noun (n.) Lit., a federal council, esp. of the German Empire. See Legislature. |
candescence | noun (n.) See Incandescence. |
cantharides | noun (n. pl.) See Cantharis. |
(pl. ) of Cantharis |
caryatides | noun (n. pl.) Caryatids. |
chidester | noun (n.) A female scold. |
clandestine | adjective (a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. |
clandestinity | noun (n.) Privacy or secrecy. |
comradeship | noun (n.) The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship. |
condescending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condescend |
condescendence | noun (n.) Alt. of Condescendency |
condescendency | noun (n.) Condescension. |
condescension | noun (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. |
condescent | noun (n.) An act of condescension. |
candescent | adjective (a.) Glowing; luminous; incandescent. |
clydesdale | noun (n.) One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay. |
dasypaedes | noun (n. pl.) Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched. |
demigoddess | noun (n.) A female demigod. |
descanting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descant |
descanter | noun (n.) One who descants. |
descending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. |
descendant | noun (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. |
adjective (a.) Descendent. |
descendent | adjective (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. |
descender | noun (n.) One who descends. |
descendibility | noun (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate. |
descendible | adjective (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended. |
adjective (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. |
descension | noun (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation. |
descensional | adjective (a.) Pertaining to descension. |
descensive | adjective (a.) Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending. |
descensory | noun (n.) A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DES (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (es) - English Words That Ends with es:
abdominales | noun (n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals. |
(pl. ) of Abdominal |
abies | noun (n.) A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus. |
aborigines | noun (n. pl.) The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races. |
noun (n. pl.) The original fauna and flora of a geographical area |
acates | noun (n. pl.) See Cates. |
accipitres | noun (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. |
(pl. ) of Accipiter |
acinaces | noun (n.) A short sword or saber. |
aerobies | noun (n. pl.) Microorganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids. |
aetites | noun (n.) See Eaglestone. |
agrappes | noun (n. pl.) Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. |
albigenses | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Albigeois |
alcyones | noun (n. pl.) The kingfishers. |
alferes | noun (n.) An ensign; a standard bearer. |
alkermes | noun (n.) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient. |
altrices | noun (n. pl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces. |
ambages | noun (n. pl.) A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. |
anaerobies | noun (n. pl.) Microorganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. |
angles | noun (n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc. |
annates | noun (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings. |
anseres | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc. |
anseriformes | noun (n. pl.) A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms. |
antares | noun (n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart. |
antes | noun (n. pl.) Antae. See Anta. |
apaches | noun (n. pl.) A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. |
apices | noun (n. pl.) See Apex. |
(pl. ) of Apex |
apteryges | noun (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx. |
aries | noun (n.) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March. |
noun (n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram. | |
noun (n.) A battering-ram. |
arles | noun (n. pl.) An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain. |
ascites | noun (n.) A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. |
ashes | noun (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal. |
noun (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. | |
noun (n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness. |
asperges | noun (n.) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water. |
noun (n.) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. |
ateles | noun (n.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita. |
atlantes | noun (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. |
aves | noun (n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds. |
axillaries | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Axillars |
anaerobes | noun (n. pl.) Anaerobic bacteria. They are called facultative anaerobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaerobia when they thrive only in its absence. |
anopheles | noun (n.) A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease. |
ascomycetes | noun (n. pl.) A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyphae, and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. |
balbuties | noun (n.) The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation. |
barbadoes | noun (n.) A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. |
barytes | noun (n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite. |
bedclothes | noun (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. |
beeves | noun (n.) plural of Beef, the animal. |
bloodybones | noun (n.) A terrible bugbear. |
bootes | noun (n.) A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus. |
bouchees | noun (n. pl.) Small patties. |
brachypteres | noun (n.pl.) A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins. |
breeches | noun (n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. |
noun (n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons. |
brogues | noun (n. pl.) Breeches. |
basidiomycetes | noun (n. pl.) A large subdivision of fungi coordinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc. |
cacoethes | noun (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing". |
noun (n.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DES (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (de) - Words That Begins with de:
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. |
deaconess | noun (n.) A female deacon |
noun (n.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. | |
noun (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. | |
noun (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists. |
deaconhood | noun (n.) The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship. |
deaconry | noun (n.) See Deaconship. |
deaconship | noun (n.) The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess. |
dead | noun (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter. |
noun (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively. | |
adjective (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. | |
adjective (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep. | |
adjective (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight. | |
adjective (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor. | |
adjective (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade. | |
adjective (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. | |
adjective (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty. | |
adjective (a.) Bringing death; deadly. | |
adjective (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works. | |
adjective (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect. | |
adjective (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson. | |
adjective (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead. | |
adjective (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle. | |
adjective (a.) Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use. | |
adjective (a.) Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games. | |
adverb (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. | |
verb (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. | |
verb (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force. |
deadbeat | adjective (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. |
deadborn | adjective (a.) Stillborn. |
deadening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deaden |
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. |
deadener | noun (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks. |
deadhead | noun (n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. |
noun (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a. |
deadhouse | noun (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies. |
deadish | adjective (a.) Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike. |
deadlatch | noun (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. |
deadlight | noun (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm. |
deadlihood | noun (n.) State of the dead. |
deadliness | noun (n.) The quality of being deadly. |
deadlock | noun (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward. |
noun (n.) A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action. |
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. |
deadness | noun (n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like. |
deads | noun (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side. |
deadwood | noun (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity. |
noun (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material. |
deadworks | noun (n. pl.) The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden. |
deaf | adjective (a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man. |
adjective (a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason. | |
adjective (a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. | |
adjective (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. | |
adjective (a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. | |
verb (v. t.) To deafen. |
deafening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deafen |
noun (n.) The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging. |
deafly | adjective (a.) Lonely; solitary. |
adverb (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely. |
deafness | noun (n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing. |
noun (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. |
deal | noun (n.) A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. |
noun (n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. | |
noun (n.) Distribution; apportionment. | |
noun (n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. | |
noun (n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. | |
noun (n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. | |
noun (n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. | |
noun (n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack. | |
verb (v. i.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. | |
verb (v. i.) To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. | |
verb (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. | |
verb (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. |
dealing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deal |
noun (n.) The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person. |
dealbation | noun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening. |
dealer | noun (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer. |
noun (n.) One who distributes cards to the players. |
dealfish | noun (n.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus). |
dealth | noun (n.) Share dealt. |
deambulation | noun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
deanship | noun (n.) The office of a dean. |
dear | noun (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart. |
superlative (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. | |
superlative (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. | |
superlative (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. | |
superlative (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. | |
superlative (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests. | |
superlative (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies. | |
adverb (adv.) Dearly; at a high price. | |
verb (v. t.) To endear. |
dearborn | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides. |
dearie | noun (n.) Same as Deary. |
dearling | noun (n.) A darling. |
dearn | adjective (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. |
verb (v. t.) Same as Darn. |
dearness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price. |
noun (n.) Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness. |
dearth | noun (n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. |
dearworth | adjective (a.) Precious. |
deary | noun (n.) A dear; a darling. |
deas | noun (n.) See Dais. |
deathbed | noun (n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DES:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 's':
dacotahs | noun (n. pl.) Same as Dacotas. |
dactylitis | noun (n.) An inflammatory affection of the fingers. |
dactylopterous | adjective (a.) Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards. |
daedalous | adjective (a.) Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves. |
daftness | noun (n.) The quality of being daft. |
dagges | noun (n. pl.) An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. |
dailiness | noun (n.) Daily occurence. |
daintiness | noun (n.) The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. |
dais | noun (n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table. |
noun (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests. | |
noun (n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity. |
dakotas | noun (n. pl) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. |
dalmanites | noun (n.) Same as Dalmania. |
damascus | noun (n.) A city of Syria. |
damnableness | noun (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. |
damningness | noun (n.) Tendency to bring damnation. |
dampness | noun (n.) Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness. |
danceress | noun (n.) A female dancer. |
dangerless | adjective (a.) Free from danger. |
dangerous | adjective (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. |
adjective (a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. | |
adjective (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. | |
adjective (a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please. | |
adjective (a.) Reserved; not affable. |
darbies | noun (n. pl.) Manacles; handcuffs. |
darkness | noun (n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. |
noun (n.) A state of privacy; secrecy. | |
noun (n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. | |
noun (n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion. | |
noun (n.) A state of distress or trouble. |
dartars | noun (n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs. |
dartos | noun (n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum. |
dartrous | adjective (a.) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. |
dastardliness | noun (n.) The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear. |
dastardness | noun (n.) Dastardliness. |
dateless | adjective (a.) Without date; having no fixed time. |
daughterliness | noun (n.) The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. |
dauntless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid. |
dauphiness | noun (n.) Alt. of Dauphine |
dayaks | noun (n. pl.) See Dyaks. |
deathfulness | noun (n.) Appearance of death. |
deathless | adjective (a.) Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame. |
deathliness | noun (n.) The quality of being deathly; deadliness. |
debauchedness | noun (n.) The state of being debauched; intemperance. |
debauchness | noun (n.) Debauchedness. |
debonairness | noun (n.) The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. |
debris | noun (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base. |
noun (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins. |
debtless | adjective (a.) Free from debt. |
deccagynous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles. |
decandrous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens. |
decaphyllous | adjective (a.) Having ten leaves. |
deccapodous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed. |
deceitfulness | noun (n.) The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. |
noun (n.) The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices. | |
noun (n.) Tendency to mislead or deceive. |
deceitless | adjective (a.) Free from deceit. |
deceivableness | noun (n.) Capability of deceiving. |
noun (n.) Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child. |
deceptious | adjective (a.) Tending deceive; delusive. |
deceptiveness | noun (n.) The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive. |
deciduous | adjective (a.) Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane. |
deciduousness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being deciduous. |
decipheress | noun (n.) A woman who deciphers. |
declaredness | noun (n.) The state of being declared. |
declinous | adjective (a.) Declinate. |
declivitous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Declivous |
declivous | adjective (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill. |
decorous | adjective (a.) Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. |
decreaseless | adjective (a.) Suffering no decrease. |
decrepitness | noun (n.) Decrepitude. |
decubitus | noun (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus. |
dedalous | adjective (a.) See Daedalous. |
dedans | noun (n.) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators. |
dedecorous | adjective (a.) Disgraceful; unbecoming. |
dedimus | noun (n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc. |
deducibleness | noun (n.) The quality of being deducible; deducibility. |
deedless | adjective (a.) Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive. |
deepness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. |
noun (n.) Craft; insidiousness. |
deergrass | noun (n.) An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceae inhabiting a temperate clime. |
dees | noun (n. pl.) Dice. |
noun (n.) A dais. |
deesis | noun (n.) An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being. |
deess | noun (n.) A goddess. |
defamous | adjective (a.) Defamatory. |
defectious | adjective (a.) Having defects; imperfect. |
defectuous | adjective (a.) Full of defects; imperfect. |
defendress | noun (n.) A female defender. |
defenseless | adjective (a.) Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. |
defensibleness | noun (n.) Capability of being defended; defensibility. |
definiteness | noun (n.) The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty. |
definitiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being definitive. |
defluous | adjective (a.) Flowing down; falling off. |
deftness | noun (n.) The quality of being deft. |
degenerateness | noun (n.) Degeneracy. |
degenerous | adjective (a.) Degenerate; base. |
deglutitious | adjective (a.) Pertaining to deglutition. |
dehors | noun (n.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. |
prep (prep.) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument. |
deignous | adjective (a.) Haughty; disdainful. |
deinoceras | noun (n.) See Dinoceras. |
deinornis | noun (n.) See Dinornis. |
deinteous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Deintevous |
deintevous | adjective (a.) Rare; excellent; costly. |
deiparous | adjective (a.) Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary. |
deis | noun (n.) See Dais. |
deisticalness | noun (n.) State of being deistical. |
delawares | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory. |
delectus | noun (n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. |
deleterious | adjective (a.) Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. |
deletitious | adjective (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper. |
deliberateness | noun (n.) The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection. |
delicateness | noun (n.) The quality of being delicate. |
delices | noun (n. pl.) Delicacies; delights. |
delicious | adjective (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. |
adjective (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate. |
deliciousness | noun (n.) The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. |
noun (n.) Luxury. |