First Names Rhyming DERIAN
English Words Rhyming DERIAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DERƯAN AS A WHOLE:
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| harderian | adjective (a.) A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate. |
| schneiderian | adjective (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DERƯAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (erian) - English Words That Ends with erian:
| algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
| celtiberian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Celtiberia. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). |
| cimmerian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness. |
| | adjective (a.) Without any light; intensely dark. |
| eulerian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century. |
| gasserian | adjective (a.) Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. |
| hanoverian | noun (n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Hanover or its people, or to the House of Hanover in England. |
| hesperian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of a western country. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of the numerous species of Hesperidae; a skipper. |
| | adjective (a.) Western; being in the west; occidental. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers. |
| hunterian | adjective (a.) Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre. |
| iberian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Iberia. |
| kimmerian | adjective (a.) See Cimmerian. |
| lacasterian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them. |
| listerian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to listerism. |
| luciferian | noun (n.) One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader. |
| lyterian | adjective (a.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease. |
| mullerian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Johannes Muller. |
| napierian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Naperian |
| naperian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. |
| oliverian | noun (n.) An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. |
| paleotherian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium. |
| panpresbyterian | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council. |
| phalansterian | noun (n.) One who favors the system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to phalansterianism. |
| pierian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses. |
| presbyterian | noun (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed. |
| siberian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Siberia. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter. |
| spenserian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene." |
| sumerian | noun (n.) A native of lower Babylonia, anciently called Sumer. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Sumer, or its inhabitants or their language. |
| valerian | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic. |
| zeuzerian | noun (n.) Any one of a group of bombycid moths of which the genus Zeuzera is the type. Some of these moths are of large size. The goat moth is an example. |
| wernerian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system. |
| wagnerian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rian) - English Words That Ends with rian:
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| | noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
| adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
| agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
| | noun (n.) An agrarian law. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. |
| | adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
| alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
| alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| | adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
| alphabetarian | noun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. |
| altitudinarian | adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. |
| amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| antiquarian | noun (n.) An antiquary. |
| | noun (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature. |
| antiquitarian | noun (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] |
| antisabbatarian | noun (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath. |
| anythingarian | noun (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. |
| apiarian | adjective (a.) Of or relating to bees. |
| apollinarian | noun (n.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ. |
| | adjective (a.) In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games. |
| aquarian | noun (n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an aquarium. |
| araucarian | adjective (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. |
| arian | noun (a. & n.) See Aryan. |
| | noun (n.) One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. |
| assyrian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. |
| asturian | noun (n.) A native of Asturias. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain. |
| atrabilarian | noun (n.) A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Atrabilarious |
| attitudinarian | noun (n.) One who attitudinizes; a posture maker. |
| aularian | noun (n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to a hall. |
| austrian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Austria. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. |
| azorian | noun (n.) A native of the Azores. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores. |
| arthurian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to King Arthur or his knights. |
| bactrian | noun (n.) A native of Bactria. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. |
| barbarian | noun (n.) A foreigner. |
| | noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. |
| | noun (n.) A person destitute of culture. |
| | noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations. |
| bavarian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria. |
| bosporian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. |
| cabirian | adjective (a.) Same as Cabiric. |
| caesarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial. |
| cambrian | noun (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales. |
| | noun (n.) The Cambrian formation. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. |
| campanularian | noun (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae. |
| campestrian | adjective (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground. |
| cantabrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain. |
| catenarian | adjective (a.) Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve. |
| catilinarian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy. |
| censorian | adjective (a.) Censorial. |
| centenarian | noun (n.) A person a hundred years old. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or relating to a hundred years. |
| cercarian | noun (n.) One of the Cercariae. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariae. |
| cesarian | adjective (a.) Same as Caesarean, Caesarian. |
| cimbrian | noun (n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. |
| concubinarian | noun (a. & n.) Concubinary. |
| consistorian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. |
| corpuscularian | noun (n.) An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. |
| | adjective (a.) Corpuscular. |
| cumbrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. |
| cyprian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot. |
| | noun (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to Cyprus. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness. |
| decandrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous |
| diandrian | adjective (a.) Diandrous. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ian) - English Words That Ends with ian:
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| | noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| | noun (n.) A collegian. |
| acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
| acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
| accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
| acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
| acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
| aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
| aeonian | adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
| aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
| albanian | noun (n.) A native of Albania. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. |
| albigensian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
| aleutian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
| allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
| alogian | noun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DERƯAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (deria) - Words That Begins with deria:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (deri) - Words That Begins with deri:
| deriding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deride |
| derider | noun (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. |
| derision | noun (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. |
| | noun (n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock. |
| derisive | adjective (a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. |
| derisory | adjective (a.) Derisive; mocking. |
| derivable | adjective (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. |
| derival | noun (n.) Derivation. |
| derivate | noun (n.) A thing derived; a derivative. |
| | adjective (a.) Derived; derivative. |
| | verb (v. t.) To derive. |
| derivation | noun (n.) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. |
| | noun (n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. |
| | noun (n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. |
| | noun (n.) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. |
| | noun (n.) That from which a thing is derived. |
| | noun (n.) That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. |
| | noun (n.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. |
| | noun (n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. |
| | noun (n.) The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word. |
| derivational | adjective (a.) Relating to derivation. |
| derivative | noun (n.) That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another. |
| | noun (n.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root. |
| | noun (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord. |
| | noun (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense). |
| | noun (n.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process. |
| | noun (n.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. |
| deriving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derive |
| derivement | noun (n.) That which is derived; deduction; inference. |
| deriver | noun (n.) One who derives. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (der) - Words That Begins with der:
| deracinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deracinate |
| deraination | noun (n.) The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. |
| deraignment | noun (n.) Alt. of Derainment |
| derainment | noun (n.) The act of deraigning. |
| | noun (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. |
| derailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derail |
| derailment | noun (n.) The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad. |
| deranging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derange |
| deranged | adjective (a.) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Derange |
| derangement | noun (n.) The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. |
| deranger | noun (n.) One who deranges. |
| deray | noun (n.) Disorder; merriment. |
| derbio | noun (n.) A large European food fish (Lichia glauca). |
| derby | noun (n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780. |
| | noun (n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown. |
| dere | noun (n.) Harm. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure. |
| derelict | noun (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. |
| | noun (n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. |
| | adjective (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. |
| | adjective (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. |
| dereliction | noun (n.) The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. |
| | noun (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being left or abandoned. |
| | noun (n.) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. |
| dereling | noun (n.) Darling. |
| | noun (n.) Darling. |
| derf | adjective (a.) Strong; powerful; fierce. |
| derma | noun (n.) See Dermis. |
| dermal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin. |
| dermaptera | noun (n.) Alt. of Dermapteran |
| dermapteran | noun (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran. |
| dermatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dermatine |
| dermatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the skin. |
| dermatitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the skin. |
| dermatogen | noun (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition. |
| | noun (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition. |
| dermatography | noun (n.) An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin. |
| dermatoid | adjective (a.) Resembling skin; skinlike. |
| dermatologist | noun (n.) One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology. |
| dermatology | noun (n.) The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases. |
| dermatopathic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure. |
| dermatophyte | noun (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin. |
| dermestes | noun (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle. |
| dermestoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. |
| dermic | adjective (a.) Relating to the derm or skin. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. |
| dermis | noun (n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix. |
| dermobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills. |
| dermobranchiate | adjective (a.) Having the skin modified to serve as a gill. |
| dermohaemal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures; as, the dermohaemal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes. |
| dermoid | adjective (a.) Same as Dermatoid. |
| dermoneural | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. |
| dermopathic | adjective (a.) Dermatopathic. |
| dermophyte | noun (n.) A dermatophyte. |
| dermoptera | noun (n. pl.) The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidae). |
| | noun (n. pl.) A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo. |
| | noun (n. pl.) An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera. |
| dermopteran | noun (n.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig. |
| dermopteri | noun (n. pl.) Same as Dermopterygii. |
| dermopterygii | noun (n. pl.) A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia. |
| dermoskeleton | noun (n.) See Exoskeleton. |
| dermostosis | noun (n.) Ossification of the dermis. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DERƯAN:
English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 'an':
| 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. |
| deathsman | noun (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman. |
| decagynian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous |
| decuman | adjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. |
| dedalian | adjective (a.) See Daedalian. |
| dellacruscan | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. |
| delphian | adjective (a.) Delphic. |
| demean | noun (n.) Demesne. |
| | noun (n.) Resources; means. |
| | verb (v. t.) To manage; to conduct; to treat. |
| | verb (v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. |
| | verb (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. |
| | verb (v. t.) Management; treatment. |
| | verb (v. t.) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. |
| demiman | noun (n.) A half man. |
| demonian | adjective (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon. |
| desman | noun (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers. |
| desmidian | noun (n.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves. |
| devonian | noun (n.) The Devonian age or formation. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system. |
