First Names Rhyming DEVEON
English Words Rhyming DEVEON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEVEON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEVEON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (eveon) - English Words That Ends with eveon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (veon) - English Words That Ends with veon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eon) - English Words That Ends with eon:
| aeon | noun (n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon. |
| | noun (n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age. |
| | noun (n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being. |
| badigeon | noun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface. |
| | noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc. |
| bludgeon | noun (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon. |
| cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
| chameleon | noun (n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. |
| chirurgeon | noun (n.) A surgeon. |
| clergeon | noun (n.) A chorister boy. |
| curmudgeon | noun (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. |
| dudgeon | noun (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. |
| | noun (n.) The haft of a dagger. |
| | noun (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. |
| | noun (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure. |
| | adjective (a.) Homely; rude; coarse. |
| dungeon | noun (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon. |
| eon | noun (n.) Alt. of Aeon |
| escocheon | noun (n.) Escutcheon. |
| escutcheon | noun (n.) The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister. |
| | noun (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written. |
| | noun (n.) A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole. |
| | noun (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area. |
| galleon | noun (n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. |
| goodgeon | noun (n.) Same as Gudgeon, 5. |
| gudgeon | noun (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. |
| | noun (n.) What may be got without skill or merit. |
| | noun (n.) A person easily duped or cheated. |
| | noun (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal. |
| | noun (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. |
| gyropigeon | noun (n.) A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. |
| habergeon | noun (n.) Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. |
| haubergeon | noun (n.) See Habergeon. |
| inescutcheon | noun (n.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield. |
| letheon | noun (n.) Sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent. |
| lophosteon | noun (n.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds. |
| luncheon | noun (n.) A lump of food. |
| | noun (n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take luncheon. |
| magdaleon | noun (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster. |
| malacosteon | noun (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking. |
| melodeon | noun (n.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine. |
| | noun (n.) A music hall. |
| metosteon | noun (n.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification. |
| mezereon | noun (n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine. |
| melungeon | noun (n.) One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct. |
| napoleon | noun (n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86. |
| | noun (n.) A game in which each player holds five cards, the eldest hand stating the number of tricks he will bid to take, any subsequent player having the right to overbid him or a previous bidder, the highest bidder naming the trump and winning a number of points equal to his bid if he makes so many tricks, or losing the same number of points if he fails to make them. |
| | noun (n.) A bid to take five tricks at napoleon. It is ordinarily the highest bid; but sometimes bids are allowed of wellington, or of blucher, to take five tricks, or pay double, or treble, if unsuccessful. |
| | noun (n.) A Napoleon gun. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of top boot of the middle of the 19th century. |
| | noun (n.) A shape and size of cigar. It is about seven inches long. |
| nickelodeon | noun (n.) A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. |
| odeon | noun (n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances. |
| paeon | noun (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. |
| pantheon | noun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. |
| | noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. |
| peon | noun (n.) See Poon. |
| | noun (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. |
| | noun (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt. |
| | noun (n.) See 2d Pawn. |
| pheon | noun (n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge. |
| pigeon | noun (n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. |
| | noun (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. |
| pigwidgeon | noun (n.) A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy. |
| pleurosteon | noun (n.) The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds. |
| pompoleon | noun (n.) See Pompelmous. |
| puncheon | noun (n.) A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. |
| | noun (n.) A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. |
| | noun (n.) A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons. |
| sconcheon | noun (n.) A squinch. |
| scutcheon | noun (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. |
| | noun (n.) A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4. |
| sturgeon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder. |
| surgeon | noun (n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. |
| tampeon | noun (n.) See Tampion. |
| truncheon | noun (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. |
| | noun (n.) A baton, or military staff of command. |
| | noun (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon. |
| urosteon | noun (n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds. |
| widgeon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEVEON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (deveo) - Words That Begins with deveo:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (deve) - Words That Begins with deve:
| develin | noun (n.) The European swift. |
| developing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Develop |
| developable | adjective (a.) Capable of being developed. |
| developer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, develops. |
| | noun (n.) A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible. |
| | noun (n.) One that develops |
| | noun (n.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs. |
| | noun (n.) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber. |
| 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. |
| developmental | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. |
| devergence | noun (n.) Alt. of Devergency |
| devergency | noun (n.) See Divergence. |
| devesting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devest |
| devex | noun (n.) Devexity. |
| | adjective (a.) Bending down; sloping. |
| devexity | adjective (a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dev) - Words That Begins with dev:
| dev | noun (n.) Alt. of Deva |
| deva | noun (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king. |
| devanagari | noun (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written. |
| devaporation | noun (n.) The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain. |
| devastating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate |
| devastation | noun (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. |
| | noun (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. |
| devastator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, devastates. |
| devastavit | noun (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. |
| devata | noun (n.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. |
| devi | noun (n.) ; fem. of Deva. A goddess. |
| deviant | adjective (a.) Deviating. |
| deviating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deviate |
| deviation | noun (n.) The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty. |
| | noun (n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. |
| | noun (n.) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. |
| deviator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, deviates. |
| deviatory | adjective (a.) Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. |
| device | noun (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. |
| | noun (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance. |
| | noun (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance. |
| | noun (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing. |
| | noun (n.) Anything fancifully conceived. |
| | noun (n.) A spectacle or show. |
| | noun (n.) Opinion; decision. |
| deviceful | adjective (a.) Full of devices; inventive. |
| devil | noun (n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. |
| | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a demon. |
| | noun (n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. |
| | noun (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. |
| | noun (n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. |
| | verb (v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. |
| deviling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devil |
| | noun (n.) A young devil. |
| devil bird | noun (n.) A small water bird. See Dabchick. |
| deviless | noun (n.) A she-devil. |
| devilet | noun (n.) A little devil. |
| devilfish | noun (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. |
| | noun (n.) A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. |
| | noun (n.) The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale. |
| | noun (n.) The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler. |
| devilish | adjective (a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. |
| | adjective (a.) Extreme; excessive. |
| devilism | noun (n.) The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. |
| devilkin | noun (n.) A little devil; a devilet. |
| devilment | noun (n.) Deviltry. |
| devilry | noun (n.) Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. |
| | noun (n.) The whole body of evil spirits. |
| devilship | noun (n.) The character or person of a devil or the devil. |
| deviltry | noun (n.) Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry. |
| devilwood | noun (n.) A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive. |
| devious | adjective (a.) Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. |
| | adjective (a.) Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. |
| devirginate | adjective (a.) Deprived of virginity. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive of virginity; to deflour. |
| devirgination | noun (n.) A deflouring. |
| devisable | adjective (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. |
| devisal | noun (n.) A devising. |
| devising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devise |
| devise | noun (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate. |
| | noun (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. |
| | noun (n.) Property devised, or given by will. |
| | noun (n.) Device. See Device. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To imagine; to guess. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. |
| | verb (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. |
| devisee | noun (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will. |
| deviser | noun (n.) One who devises. |
| devisor | noun (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee. |
| devitable | adjective (a.) Avoidable. |
| devitation | noun (n.) An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning. |
| devitrification | noun (n.) The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. |
| devocation | noun (n.) A calling off or away. |
| devoir | noun (n.) Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies. |
| devolution | noun (n.) The act of rolling down. |
| | noun (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. |
| devolving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devolve |
| devolvement | noun (n.) The act or process of devolving;; devolution. |
| devon | noun (n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEVEON:
English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 'on':
| 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. |
| dealbation | noun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening. |
| deambulation | noun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading. |
| deauration | noun (n.) Act of gilding. |
| debacchation | noun (n.) Wild raving or debauchery. |
| debarkation | noun (n.) Disembarkation. |
| debellation | noun (n.) The act of conquering or subduing. |
| debilitation | noun (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness. |
| debituminization | noun (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen. |
| debulition | noun (n.) A bubbling or boiling over. |
| decachordon | noun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp. |
| | noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts. |
| decagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal. |
| decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
| decalcification | noun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter. |
| decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
| decantation | noun (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. |
| decapitation | noun (n.) The act of beheading; beheading. |
| decarbonization | noun (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon. |
| decarburization | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing. |
| decentralization | noun (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. |
| deception | noun (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being deceived or misled. |
| | noun (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. |
| decerption | noun (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping. |
| | noun (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. |
| decertation | noun (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife. |
| decession | noun (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion. |
| decillion | noun (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.] |
| decimation | noun (n.) A tithing. |
| | noun (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. |
| | noun (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. |
| decision | noun (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. |
| | noun (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. |
| | noun (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. |
| | noun (n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision. |
| declamation | noun (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. |
| | noun (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. |
| | noun (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. |
| declaration | noun (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc. |
| | noun (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal. |
| | noun (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington). |
| | noun (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. |
| declension | noun (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. |
| | noun (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. |
| | noun (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. |
| | noun (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined. |
| declination | noun (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. |
| | noun (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. |
| | noun (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. |
| | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. |
| | noun (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. |
| | noun (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south. |
| | noun (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4. |
| decoction | noun (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. |
| | noun (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. |
| decollation | noun (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. |
| | noun (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. |
| decoloration | noun (n.) The removal or absence of color. |
| decomposition | noun (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements. |
| | noun (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. |
| deconcentration | noun (n.) Act of deconcentrating. |
| decoration | noun (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
| | noun (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. |
| decortication | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat. |
| decreation | noun (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation. |
| decrepitation | noun (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. |
| decretion | noun (n.) A decrease. |
| decrustation | noun (n.) The removal of a crust. |
| decubation | noun (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence. |
| decurion | noun (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers. |
| decursion | noun (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. |
| decurtation | noun (n.) Act of cutting short. |
| decussation | noun (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. |
| dedecoration | noun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor. |
| dedentition | noun (n.) The shedding of teeth. |
| dedication | noun (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. |
| | noun (n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use. |
| | noun (n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor. |
| dedition | noun (n.) The act of yielding; surrender. |
| deduction | noun (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring. |
| | noun (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend. |
| | noun (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. |
| | noun (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent. |
| deduplication | noun (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster. |
| defalcation | noun (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. |
| | noun (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated. |
| | noun (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement. |
| defamation | noun (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. |
| defatigation | noun (n.) Weariness; fatigue. |
| defecation | noun (n.) The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification. |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of voiding excrement. |
| defection | noun (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. |
| defedation | noun (n.) The act of making foul; pollution. |
| defibrination | noun (n.) The act or process of depriving of fibrin. |
| defiguration | noun (n.) Disfiguration; mutilation. |
| defiliation | noun (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents. |
| definition | noun (n.) The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition. |
| | noun (n.) Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition. |
| | noun (n.) Description; sort. |
| | noun (n.) An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. |
| | noun (n.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail. |
| deflagration | noun (n.) A burning up; conflagration. |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of deflagrating. |
| deflection | noun (n.) The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. |
| | noun (n.) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. |
| | noun (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction. |
| | noun (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load. |
| deflectionization | noun (n.) The act of freeing from inflections. |
| deflexion | noun (n.) See Deflection. |
| defloration | noun (n.) The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin. |
| | noun (n.) That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. |
| defluxion | noun (n.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. |
| defoedation | noun (n.) Defedation. |
| defoliation | noun (n.) The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves. |
| deforciation | noun (n.) Same as Deforcement, n. |
| deformation | noun (n.) The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. |
| | noun (n.) Transformation; change of shape. |
| defraudation | noun (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. |
| defunction | noun (n.) Death. |
| degeneration | noun (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. |
| | noun (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. |
| | noun (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. |
| | noun (n.) The thing degenerated. |
| deglutination | noun (n.) The act of ungluing. |
| deglutition | noun (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. |
| degradation | noun (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. |
| | noun (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration. |
| | noun (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc. |
| | noun (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration. |
| | noun (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole. |
| degravation | adjective (a.) The act of making heavy. |
| degustation | noun (n.) Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs. |
| dehonestation | noun (n.) A dishonoring; disgracing. |
| dehortation | noun (n.) Dissuasion; advice against something. |
| dehydration | noun (n.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed. |
| dehydrogenation | noun (n.) The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen. |
| deification | noun (n.) The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise. |
| dejection | noun (n.) A casting down; depression. |
| | noun (n.) The act of humbling or abasing one's self. |
| | noun (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. |
| | noun (n.) A low condition; weakness; inability. |
| | noun (n.) The discharge of excrement. |
| | noun (n.) Faeces; excrement. |
| dejeration | noun (n.) The act of swearing solemnly. |
| delaceration | noun (n.) A tearing in pieces. |
| delacrymation | noun (n.) An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. |
| delactation | noun (n.) The act of weaning. |
| delamination | noun (n.) Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. |
| delapsation | noun (n.) See Delapsion. |
| delapsion | noun (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion. |
| delassation | noun (n.) Fatigue. |
| delation | noun (n.) Conveyance. |
| | noun (n.) Accusation by an informer. |
| delectation | noun (n.) Great pleasure; delight. |
| delegation | noun (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. |
| | noun (n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. |
| deletion | noun (n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction. |
| delibation | noun (n.) Act of tasting; a slight trial. |
