Name Report For First Name DION:
DION
First name DION's origin is Other. DION means "myth name (god of wine)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DION below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dion.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with DION and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DION - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DION
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DİON AS A WHOLE:
dionysia odion dionysius diona diondra dione dionis dionisa dionna dionne diondray dionysie diondre dionteNAMES RHYMING WITH DİON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ion) - Names That Ends with ion:
carnation sion zorion bendision histion amphion arion deucalion echion endymion hyperion iasion ion ixion kedalion ophion pygmalion adoracion anunciacion ascencion asuncion battzion caerlion charion concepcion consolacion encarnacion exaltacion marion adrion albion brion dairion davion devion dorion fabion faiion gurion jamion jarion kevion lamarion lion merlion rion tavion travion trevion zion benzion pution eadaion marmion clarion dillion einion orion tzion garion torionRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton celyddon eburacon mabon alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymon ganelonNAMES RHYMING WITH DİON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dio) - Names That Begins with dio:
diogo diolmhain diomasach diomedes dior diorbhallRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (di) - Names That Begins with di:
dia diahann diahna diamanda diamanta diamante diamon diamond diamonique diamont diamontina dian diana dianda diandra diandre diane dianna diannah dianne diantha dianthe diara diarmaid dibe dice dichali dick dickran dickson didier dido didrika diederich diedre diedrick diega diego dien diep diera dierck dierdre dieter dietrich dietz digna diji dike dikesone dikran dilan dillan dillen dillin dillon dimitrie dimitry dimitur din dina dinadan dinah dinar dinas dino dinora dinorah dinsmore dirce dirck dirk dita diti diu div diva divon divone divsha divshah divyanshu dix dixie dixonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DİON:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
dacian daegan daelan daelyn daelynn daemon dagan dagen dagian daijon dailyn daimhin daimmen dain dainan dalan dalen dallan dallen dallin dallon dalon dalston dalton dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damian damiean damien damon dan danathon daniel-sean dann dannon danon danton danylynn daran dareen daren darien darin darleen darolyn daron darrellyn darren darrin darron darryn dartagnan darton darvin darwin darwyn darylyn daryn daveen daveon davian davidson davin davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton dayveon deacon deagan deaglan deakin dean deann dearborn deasmumhan deavon declan deeann deegan deen dehaan deikun delbin delman delmon delron delsin delton delvinEnglish Words Rhyming DION
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DİON AS A WHOLE:
| accordion | noun (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. |
| accordionist | noun (n.) A player on the accordion. |
| collodion | noun (n.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. |
| dionaea | noun (n.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap. |
| dionysian | adjective (a.) Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. |
| dionysia | noun (n. pl.) Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies. |
| dionysiac | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens. |
| enchiridion | noun (n.) Handbook; a manual of devotions. |
| gammadion | noun (n.) A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot. |
| herodiones | noun (n. pl.) A division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. Called also Herodii. |
| meridional | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the meridian. |
| adjective (a.) Having a southern aspect; southern; southerly. |
| meridionality | noun (n.) The state of being in the meridian. |
| noun (n.) Position in the south; aspect toward the south. |
| obsidional | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a siege. |
| ophidion | noun (n.) The typical genus of ophidioid fishes. [Written also Ophidium.] See Illust. under Ophidioid. |
| pyramidion | noun (n.) The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DİON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ion) - English Words That Ends with ion:
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. | |
| noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. | |
| noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. | |
| noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. | |
| noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. | |
| noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. | |
| noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. | |
| noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. | |
| noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
| noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
| noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
| noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. | |
| noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
| noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
| noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. | |
| noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| noun (n.) The state of being cut off. | |
| noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. | |
| noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. | |
| noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. | |
| noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. | |
| noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. | |
| noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. | |
| adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. | |
| adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. | |
| adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. | |
| adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
| accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
| noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
| acceptation | noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. |
| noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
| acceptilation | noun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
| acception | noun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DİON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dio) - Words That Begins with dio:
| diocesan | noun (n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York. |
| noun (n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions. |
| diocese | noun (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority. |
| diocesener | noun (n.) One who belongs to a diocese. |
| diodon | noun (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs. |
| noun (n.) A genus of whales. |
| diodont | noun (n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus. |
| adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon. |
| dioecia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants. |
| noun (n. pl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries. |
| dioecian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dioecious |
| dioecious | adjective (a.) Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious. |
| dioeciousness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being dioecious. |
| dioecism | noun (n.) The condition of being dioecious. |
| diogenes | noun (n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. |
| dioicous | adjective (a.) See Dioecious. |
| diomedea | noun (n.) A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross. |
| diophantine | adjective (a.) Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra. |
| diopside | noun (n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite. |
| dioptase | noun (n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals. |
| diopter | noun (n.) Alt. of Dioptra |
| dioptra | noun (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc. |
| dioptre | noun (n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter. |
| dioptric | noun (n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Dioptrical |
| dioptrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope. |
| dioptrics | noun (n.) The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light. |
| dioptry | noun (n.) A dioptre. |
| diorama | noun (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. |
| noun (n.) A building used for such an exhibition. |
| dioramic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a diorama. |
| diorism | noun (n.) Definition; logical direction. |
| dioristic | adjective (a.) Distinguishing; distinctive; defining. |
| diorite | noun (n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone. |
| dioritic | adjective (a.) Containing diorite. |
| diorthotic | adjective (a.) Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective. |
| dioscorea | noun (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam. |
| diota | noun (n.) A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears. |
| dioxide | noun (n.) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide. |
| noun (n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. |
| dioxindol | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DİON:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
| dacian | noun (n.) A native of ancient Dacia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. |
| daedalian | adjective (a.) Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. |
| adjective (a.) Crafty; deceitful. |
| daemon | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic |
| dagon | noun (n.) A slip or piece. |
| () The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. |
| dagswain | noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. |
| daguerrean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daguerreian |
| daguerreian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype. |
| dahlin | noun (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin. |
| dairyman | noun (n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy. |
| dairywoman | noun (n.) A woman who attends to a dairy. |
| dalesman | noun (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. |
| dalmatian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. |
| daltonian | noun (n.) One afflicted with color blindness. |
| daman | noun (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax. |
| damaskin | noun (n.) A sword of Damask steel. |
| damassin | noun (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade. |
| damnation | noun (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation. |
| noun (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. | |
| noun (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. |
| damnification | noun (n.) That which causes damage or loss. |
| damson | noun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum. |
| dan | noun (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. |
| noun (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines. |
| dandelion | noun (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves. |
| dantean | adjective (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings. |
| danubian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube. |
| daphnetin | noun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin. |
| daphnin | noun (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant. |
| noun (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina. |
| dardanian | noun (a. & n.) Trojan. |
| darken | adjective (a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. |
| adjective (a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision. | |
| adjective (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. | |
| adjective (a.) To cast a gloom upon. | |
| adjective (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow or darker. |
| darn | noun (n.) A place mended by darning. |
| verb (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. | |
| verb (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn. |
| darrein | adjective (a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. |
| darwinian | noun (n.) An advocate of Darwinism. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. |
| datiscin | noun (n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina). |
| daun | noun (n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor. |
| dauphin | noun (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued. |
| dawn | noun (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. |
| noun (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. | |
| verb (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. | |
| verb (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. |
| daysman | noun (n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. |
| daywoman | noun (n.) A dairymaid. |
| 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. |
| deadborn | adjective (a.) Stillborn. |
| deaden | adjective (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. |
| adjective (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. | |
| adjective (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. | |
| adjective (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. |
| dealbation | noun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening. |
| deambulation | noun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading. |
| dean | noun (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop. |
| noun (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. | |
| noun (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities. | |
| noun (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. | |
| noun (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy. |
| dearborn | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides. |
| dearn | adjective (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. |
| verb (v. t.) Same as Darn. |
| deathsman | noun (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman. |
| 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. |
| decagynian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous |
| 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. |
| decandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous |
| 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. |
| decuman | adjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. |
| 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. |
| dedalian | adjective (a.) See Daedalian. |
| 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. |
| deerskin | noun (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. |
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