Name Report For First Name DETE:
DETE
First name DETE's origin is Europe. DETE means "meaning unknown". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DETE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dete.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with DETE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DETE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DETE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DETE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH DETE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ete) - Names That Ends with ete:
amanishakhete florete anaxarete arete ocypete luete lunete pete skete rhete grete allete koleteRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (te) - Names That Ends with te:
linette maledysaunte tote suette annemette bergitte astarte rute agate bradamate huette josette pierrette yolette bernadette amphitrite aphrodite ate calliste fate hippolyte tienette vedette volante manute baptiste mette dante wambli-waste adette amette amite anate anjanette anjeanette annette annjeanette antoinette araminte argante ariette ariste arlette babette bemadette bernette bette birte bridgette brigette brigitte brite cate celeste chante chariste charlette charlotte chaunte clarette colette collette comforte danette davite dawnette diamante elberte ellette enite evette georgette georgitte ginnette hanriette harriette hecate hugette hughette idette ivette jaenette janette jaquenette jeanette jenette johnetteNAMES RHYMING WITH DETE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (det) - Names That Begins with det:
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 DETE:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'e':
dace dae daesgesage daine daire daisie dale dalene damae damerae damiane danae dane danele danelle danice daniele danielle danise dannalee dannee dannelle dannie danrelle dantae daphne darce darcelle darchelle darcie darelene darelle darence darice darleane darlene darline darrance darrence daryle darylene daunte dave davide davidsone davie davine dawayne dawne dawnelle dawnielle dayle dayne delmare delmore delphine demasone demissie dene denelle denice deniece denise denisse dennie dennise denyse deonne deorwine derebourne derorice derrance desarae desaree desirae desire desiree destanee destine destinee destinie destrie desyre devanie devere devine devinee devonne dewayne deydrienne dezarae dezirae deziree dhoire diamonique diandre diane dianne dianthe dibeEnglish Words Rhyming DETE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DETE AS A WHOLE:
| detect | adjective (a.) Detected. |
| verb (v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inform against; to accuse. |
| detecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detect |
| detectable | adjective (a.) Alt. of Detectible |
| detectible | adjective (a.) Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. |
| detecter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector. |
| detection | noun (n.) The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. |
| detective | noun (n.) One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy. |
| adjective (a.) Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer. |
| detector | noun (n.) One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. |
| noun (n.) An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler. | |
| noun (n.) A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current. | |
| noun (n.) Any of various devices for detecting the presence of electric waves. |
| detent | noun (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. |
| detention | noun (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding. |
| noun (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity. | |
| noun (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody. |
| deterring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deter |
| deterging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deterge |
| detergency | noun (n.) A cleansing quality or power. |
| detergent | noun (n.) A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Cleansing; purging. |
| deteriorating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deteriorate |
| deterioration | noun (n.) The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse. |
| deteriority | noun (n.) Worse state or quality; inferiority. |
| determent | noun (n.) The act of deterring; also, that which deters. |
| determinability | noun (n.) The quality of being determinable; determinableness. |
| determinableness | noun (n.) Capability of being determined; determinability. |
| determinacy | noun (n.) Determinateness. |
| determinant | noun (n.) That which serves to determine; that which causes determination. |
| noun (n.) The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws | |
| noun (n.) A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise. | |
| adjective (a.) Serving to determine or limit; determinative. |
| determinate | adjective (a.) Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. |
| adjective (a.) Conclusive; decisive; positive. | |
| adjective (a.) Determined or resolved upon. | |
| adjective (a.) Of determined purpose; resolute. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine. |
| determinateness | noun (n.) State of being determinate. |
| determination | noun (n.) The act of determining, or the state of being determined. |
| noun (n.) Bringing to an end; termination; limit. | |
| noun (n.) Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion. | |
| noun (n.) The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness. | |
| noun (n.) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy. | |
| noun (n.) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. | |
| noun (n.) A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head. | |
| noun (n.) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air. | |
| noun (n.) The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents. | |
| noun (n.) The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization. | |
| noun (n.) The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells. |
| determinative | noun (n.) That which serves to determine. |
| adjective (a.) Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. |
| determinator | noun (n.) One who determines. |
| determining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Determine |
| determined | adjective (a.) Decided; resolute. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Determine |
| determiner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, determines or decides. |
| determinism | noun (n.) The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. |
| determinist | noun (n.) One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories. |
| deterration | noun (n.) The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. |
| deterrence | noun (n.) That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance. |
| deterrent | noun (n.) That which deters or prevents. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to deter. |
| detersion | noun (n.) The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore. |
| detersive | noun (n.) A cleansing agent; a detergent. |
| adjective (a.) Cleansing; detergent. |
| detersiveness | noun (n.) The quality of cleansing. |
| detesting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detest |
| detestability | noun (n.) Capacity of being odious. |
| detestable | adjective (a.) Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. |
| detestableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being detestable. |
| detestation | noun (n.) The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. |
| detester | noun (n.) One who detes// |
| indeterminable | noun (n.) An indeterminable thing or quantity. |
| adjective (a.) Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. |
| indeterminate | adjective (a.) Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. |
| indetermination | noun (n.) Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. |
| noun (n.) Want of fixed or stated direction. |
| indetermined | adjective (a.) Undetermined. |
| pedetentous | adjective (a.) Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DETE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ete) - English Words That Ends with ete:
| accrete | adjective (a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter. |
| adjective (a.) Grown together. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow together. | |
| verb (v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make adhere; to add. |
| aesthete | noun (n.) One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics. |
| agonothete | noun (n.) An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. |
| asynartete | adjective (a.) Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted. |
| athlete | noun (n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome. |
| noun (n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion. | |
| noun (n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate. |
| aplanogamete | noun (n.) A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algae. |
| arete | noun (n.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges. |
| bolete | noun (n.) any fungus of the family Boletaceae. |
| cete | noun (n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea. |
| complete | adjective (a.) Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate. |
| adjective (a.) Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete. | |
| adjective (a.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education. |
| concrete | noun (n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. |
| noun (n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures. | |
| noun (n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. | |
| noun (n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. | |
| adjective (a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. | |
| adjective (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract. | |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3. | |
| verb (v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement. |
| crete | noun (n.) A Cretan |
| decollete | adjective (a.) Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress. |
| adjective (a.) Wearing a decollete gown. |
| decrete | noun (n.) A decree. |
| denticete | noun (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc. |
| deplete | adjective (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. |
| adjective (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. |
| desuete | adjective (a.) Disused; out of use. |
| discrete | adjective (a.) Separate; distinct; disjunct. |
| adjective (a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition. | |
| adjective (a.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate. |
| effete | adjective (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. |
| esthete | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthetics |
| exegete | noun (n.) An exegetist. |
| exolete | adjective (a.) Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid. |
| facete | adjective (a.) Facetious; witty; humorous. |
| fete | noun (n.) A feat. |
| noun (n. pl.) Feet. | |
| noun (n.) A festival. | |
| verb (v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival. |
| grete | adjective (a.) Great. |
| gamete | noun (n.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms. |
| hebete | adjective (a.) Dull; stupid. |
| homilete | noun (n.) A homilist. |
| incomplete | adjective (a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. |
| adjective (a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. |
| inconcrete | adjective (a.) Not concrete. |
| indiscrete | adjective (a.) Indiscreet. |
| adjective (a.) Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. |
| machete | noun (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. |
| mansuete | adjective (a.) Tame; gentle; kind. |
| mete | noun (n.) Meat. |
| noun (n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds. | |
| adjective (a.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To meet. | |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. | |
| verb (v. i.) To measure. |
| mysticete | noun (n.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. |
| naivete | noun (n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness. |
| nomothete | noun (n.) A lawgiver. |
| obsolete | adjective (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances. |
| adjective (a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use. |
| odontocete | noun (n.pl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales. |
| oligochete | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Oligochaeta. |
| opplete | adjective (a.) Alt. of Oppleted |
| paraclete | noun (n.) An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy Spirit. |
| perichete | noun (n.) Same as Perichaeth. |
| planogamete | noun (n.) One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algae (Chlorophyceae). |
| replete | adjective (a.) Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. |
| verb (v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety. |
| rete | noun (n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network. |
| semiterete | adjective (a.) Half terete. |
| spirochaete | noun (n.) A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochaete Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever. |
| subterete | adjective (a.) Somewhat terete. |
| terete | adjective (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DETE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (det) - Words That Begins with det:
| detaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detach |
| detachable | adjective (a.) That can be detached. |
| detached | adjective (a.) Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Detach |
| detachment | noun (n.) The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. |
| noun (n.) That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. | |
| noun (n.) Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. |
| detail | noun (n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. |
| noun (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. | |
| noun (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. | |
| noun (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order. | |
| noun (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron. | |
| noun (n.) A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower. | |
| noun (n.) A detail drawing. |
| detailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detail |
| detailer | noun (n.) One who details. |
| detaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detain |
| detain | noun (n.) Detention. |
| verb (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold. | |
| verb (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody. |
| detainder | noun (n.) A writ. See Detinue. |
| detainer | noun (n.) One who detains. |
| noun (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. | |
| noun (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody. |
| detainment | noun (n.) Detention. |
| dethroning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dethrone |
| dethronement | noun (n.) Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power. |
| dethroner | noun (n.) One who dethrones. |
| dethronization | noun (n.) Dethronement. |
| detinue | noun (n.) A person or thing detained |
| noun (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained. |
| detonating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detonate |
| noun (a. & n.) from Detonate. |
| detonation | noun (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton. |
| detonator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, detonates. |
| noun (n.) One that detonates | |
| noun (n.) An explosive whose action is practically instantaneous. | |
| noun (n.) Something used to detonate a charge, as a detonating fuse. | |
| noun (n.) A case containing detonating powder, the explosion of which serves as a signal, as on railroads. | |
| noun (n.) A gun fired by a percussion cap. |
| detonization | noun (n.) The act of detonizing; detonation. |
| detonizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detonize |
| detorsion | noun (n.) Same as Detortion. |
| detorting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detort |
| detortion | noun (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping. |
| detour | noun (n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi. |
| detracting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detract |
| detracter | noun (n.) One who detracts; a detractor. |
| detraction | noun (n.) A taking away or withdrawing. |
| noun (n.) The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny. |
| detractious | adjective (a.) Containing detraction; detractory. |
| detractive | adjective (a.) Tending to detractor draw. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. |
| detractiveness | noun (n.) The quality of being detractive. |
| detracor | noun (n.) One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. |
| detractory | adjective (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. |
| detractress | noun (n.) A female detractor. |
| detriment | noun (n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. |
| noun (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt. |
| detrimental | adjective (a.) Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. |
| detrimentalness | noun (n.) The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness. |
| detrital | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus. |
| detrite | adjective (a.) Worn out. |
| detrition | noun (n.) A wearing off or away. |
| detritus | noun (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus. |
| noun (n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration. |
| detruding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detrude |
| detruncating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detuncate |
| detruncation | noun (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body. |
| detrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust. |
| dette | noun (n.) Debt. |
| detteles | adjective (a.) Free from debt. |
| detumescence | noun (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. |
| detur | noun (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DETE:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'e':
| dace | noun (n.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare. |
| daguerreotype | noun (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury. |
| noun (n.) The process of taking such pictures. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly. |
| dale | noun (n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley. |
| noun (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. |
| dalliance | noun (n.) The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. |
| noun (n.) Delay or procrastination. | |
| noun (n.) Entertaining discourse. |
| damage | noun (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. |
| noun (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. | |
| noun (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. | |
| verb (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight. |
| damageable | adjective (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. |
| adjective (a.) Hurtful; pernicious. |
| damascene | noun (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to Damascus. | |
| verb (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. |
| damasse | noun (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen. |
| adjective (a.) Woven like damask. |
| dambonite | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc. |
| dambose | noun (n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite. |
| dame | noun (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady. |
| noun (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. | |
| noun (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman. | |
| noun (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. |
| damnable | adjective (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. |
| adjective (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable. |
| damoiselle | noun (n.) See Damsel. |
| damourite | noun (n.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water. |
| danaide | noun (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one. |
| danaite | noun (n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite. |
| danalite | noun (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur. |
| danburite | noun (n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. |
| dancette | adjective (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon. |
| dandie | noun (n.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont. |
| noun (n.) In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers. | |
| noun (n.) One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border. |
| dane | noun (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. |
| danite | noun (n.) A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan. |
| noun (n.) One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things. |
| danseuse | noun (n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet. |
| dantesque | adjective (a.) Dantelike; Dantean. |
| daphne | noun (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms. |
| noun (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree. |
| dapple | noun (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Dappled | |
| verb (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot. |
| darbyite | noun (n.) One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren. |
| dare | noun (n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. |
| noun (n.) Defiance; challenge. | |
| noun (n.) A small fish; the dace. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. | |
| verb (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To terrify; to daunt. |
| dargue | noun (n.) A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. |
| darksome | adjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. |
| dasyure | noun (n.) A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species. |
| dasyurine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures. |
| datable | adjective (a.) That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date. |
| date | noun (n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. |
| noun (n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc. | |
| noun (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. | |
| noun (n.) Assigned end; conclusion. | |
| noun (n.) Given or assigned length of life; dyration. | |
| verb (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from. |
| dative | noun (n.) The dative case. See Dative, a., 1. |
| adjective (a.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. | |
| adjective (a.) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office. | |
| adjective (a.) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer. | |
| adjective (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. |
| datolite | noun (n.) A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. |
| daturine | noun (n.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina. |
| daubreelite | noun (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons. |
| dauphine | noun (n.) The title of the wife of the dauphin. |
| davyne | noun (n.) A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius. |
| dawdle | noun (n.) A dawdler. |
| verb (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. |
| dawe | noun (n.) Day. |
| dawsonite | noun (n.) A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals. |
| daymare | noun (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. |
| daytime | noun (n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night. |
| daze | noun (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. |
| noun (n.) A glittering stone. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. |
| dazzle | noun (n.) A light of dazzling brilliancy. |
| verb (v. t.) To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. |
| deadhouse | noun (n.) A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies. |
| dearie | noun (n.) Same as Deary. |
| deathlike | adjective (a.) Resembling death. |
| adjective (a.) Deadly. |
| deaurate | adjective (a.) Gilded. |
| verb (v. t.) To gild. |
| debacle | noun (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris. |
| noun (n.) A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst. |
| debase | adjective (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. |
| debatable | adjective (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question. |
| debeige | noun (n.) A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. |
| debenture | noun (n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due. |
| noun (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. | |
| noun (n.) Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders. |
| debile | adjective (a.) Weak. |
| debouche | noun (n.) A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. |
| debouchure | noun (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait. |
| debtee | noun (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor. |
| debuscope | noun (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs. |
| decade | noun (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. |
| decadence | noun (n.) Alt. of Decadency |
| decagramme | noun (n.) A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois. |
| decalcomanie | noun (n.) The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto. |
| decalitre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons. |
| decalogue | noun (n.) The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone. |
| decametre | noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches. |
| decane | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications. |
| decastere | noun (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters. |
| decastyle | noun (n.) A portico having ten pillars or columns in front. |
| adjective (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. |
| decease | noun (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death. |
| verb (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away. |
| decede | noun (n.) To withdraw. |
| deceivable | adjective (a.) Fitted to deceive; deceitful. |
| adjective (a.) Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. |
| decemdentate | adjective (a.) Having ten points or teeth. |
| decemvirate | noun (n.) The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome. |
| noun (n.) A body of ten men in authority. |
| decence | noun (n.) Decency. |
| decene | noun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series. |
| deceptible | adjective (a.) Capable of being deceived; deceivable. |
| deceptive | adjective (a.) Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. |
| decerniture | noun (n.) A decree or sentence of a court. |
| decerptible | adjective (a.) That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away. |
| decidable | adjective (a.) Capable of being decided; determinable. |
| decidence | noun (n.) A falling off. |
| deciduate | adjective (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua. |
| decigramme | noun (n.) A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois. |
| decile | noun (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡. |
| decilitre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces. |
| decime | noun (n.) A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents. |
| decimetre | noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches. |
| decine | noun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene. |
| decipherable | adjective (a.) Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. |
| decisive | adjective (a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. |
| adjective (a.) Marked by promptness and decision. |
| decistere | noun (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere. |
| deckle | noun (n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. |
| declarable | adjective (a.) Capable of being declared. |
| declarative | adjective (a.) Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory. |
| declinable | adjective (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech. |
| declinate | adjective (a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined. |
| declinature | noun (n.) The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office. |
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