First Names Rhyming DEVLON
English Words Rhyming DEVLON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEVLON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEVLON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (evlon) - English Words That Ends with evlon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (vlon) - English Words That Ends with vlon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lon) - English Words That Ends with lon:
| abutilon | noun (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. |
| aquilon | noun (n.) The north wind. |
| bellon | noun (n.) Lead colic. |
| billon | noun (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage. |
| bouillon | noun (n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth. |
| | noun (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog. |
| bullon | noun (n.) A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis). |
| carillon | noun (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. |
| | noun (n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells. |
| cephalon | noun (n.) The head. |
| chalon | noun (n.) A bed blanket. |
| coilon | noun (n.) A testicle. |
| colon | noun (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.] |
| | noun (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction. |
| confalon | noun (n.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents. |
| cotillon | noun (n.) Alt. of Cotillion |
| diachylon | noun (n.) Alt. of Diachylum |
| diencephalon | noun (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. |
| decathlon | noun (n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run. |
| echelon | noun (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. |
| | noun (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take position in echelon. |
| eidolon | noun (n.) An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. |
| encephalon | noun (n.) The contents of the cranium; the brain. |
| epencephalon | noun (n.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen. |
| erythroxylon | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca. |
| fellon | noun (n.) Variant of Felon. |
| felon | adjective (a.) A person who has committed a felony. |
| | adjective (a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. |
| | adjective (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint. |
| | adjective (a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. |
| flon | noun (n. pl.) See Flo. |
| | (pl. ) of Flo |
| gallon | noun (n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure. |
| gonfalon | noun (n.) Alt. of Gonfanon |
| haematoxylon | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan. |
| hersillon | noun (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable. |
| idolon | noun (n.) Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea. |
| mamelon | noun (n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. |
| matfelon | noun (n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra). |
| melon | noun (n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit. |
| | noun (n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. |
| merlon | noun (n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement. |
| mesencephalon | noun (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain. |
| mesocephalon | noun (n.) The pons Varolii. |
| mesocolon | noun (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon. |
| metencephalon | noun (n.) The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten. |
| moellon | noun (n.) Rubble masonry. |
| monoxylon | noun (n.) A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber. |
| mouflon | noun (n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. |
| muflon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
| muskmelon | noun (n.) The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon. |
| myelencephalon | noun (n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal. |
| | noun (n.) The metencephalon. |
| myelon | noun (n.) The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.) |
| myroxylon | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum. |
| orillon | noun (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses. |
| pademelon | noun (n.) See Wallaby. |
| pentathlon | noun (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear. |
| | noun (n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run. |
| postencephalon | noun (n.) The metencephalon. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEVLON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (devlo) - Words That Begins with devlo:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (devl) - Words That Begins with devl:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEVLON:
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. |
