DELMON
First name DELMON's origin is English. DELMON means "of the mountain". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DELMON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of delmon.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DELMON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming DELMON
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delmontNAMES RHYMING WITH DELMON (According to last letters):
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erromon aymon andraemon cadmon daemon haemon palaemon panteleimon philemon telamon kaemon damon carmon amon apenimon armon eamon fitzsimon harmon jamon patamon ramon raymon salamon salomon shim'on simon siomon solomon symon timon williamon ximon garmon diamon ammon farmon caedmon tryamon edmon shermonRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron acteon aeson agamemnon alcmaeon amphion amphitryon arion bellerophon biton cenon cercyonNAMES RHYMING WITH DELMON (According to first letters):
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delma delman delmar delmara delmare delmer delmi delmira delmyRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (del) - Names That Begins with del:
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 dell della delora delores deloris delphia delphina delphine delphinus delray delrick delrico delron delroy delsin delta delton delvin delvon delyssaRhyming 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 dedrikNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DELMON:
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demason demogorgon demophon dennison denton deon deron dervon deston deucalion deveon devion devlon devon devronFirst Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
dacian daegan daelan daelyn daelynn dagan dagen dagian daijon dailyn daimhin daimmen dain dainan dairion dalan dalen dallan dallen dallin dallon dalon dalston dalton dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damian damiean damien 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 davion davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton dayveon deeann deegan deen dehaan deikun deman denEnglish Words Rhyming DELMON
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salmon | adjective (a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon. |
verb (v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat. | |
verb (v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. | |
(pl. ) of Salmon |
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backgammon | noun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. |
verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table". |
cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
noun (n.) The nightmare. |
cinnamon | noun (n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices. |
noun (n.) Cassia. |
common | noun (n.) The people; the community. |
noun (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons. | |
noun (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right. | |
verb (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. | |
verb (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. | |
verb (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. | |
verb (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. | |
verb (v.) Profane; polluted. | |
verb (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. | |
verb (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer. | |
verb (v. i.) To participate. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. | |
verb (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common. |
daemon | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic |
demon | noun (n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. |
noun (n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. | |
noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil. |
etymon | noun (n.) An original form; primitive word; root. |
noun (n.) Original or fundamental signification. |
eudemon | noun (n.) Alt. of Eudaemon |
eudaemon | noun (n.) A good angel. |
gammon | noun (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. |
noun (n.) Backgammon. | |
noun (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug. | |
verb (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. |
glossocomon | noun (n.) A kind of hoisting winch. |
gnomon | noun (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis. |
noun (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow. | |
noun (n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df. | |
noun (n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe. |
hieromnemon | noun (n.) The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister. |
noun (n.) A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. |
ichneumon | noun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra. |
noun (n.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera. |
lemon | noun (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet. |
noun (n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. |
mammon | noun (n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. |
mormon | noun (n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin. |
noun (n.) The mandrill. | |
noun (n.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters. | |
noun (n.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices. |
musimon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
musmon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
mon | noun (n.) The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used. |
norimon | noun (n.) A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. |
persimmon | noun (n.) An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. |
phlegmon | noun (n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue. |
plasmon | noun (n.) A flourlike food preparation made from skim milk, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance. |
sermon | noun (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. |
noun (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. | |
noun (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. | |
verb (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. | |
verb (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. | |
verb (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture. |
solomon | noun (n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man. |
stasimon | noun (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics. |
uncommon | adjective (a.) Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DELMON (According to first letters):
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del | noun (n.) Share; portion; part. |
delaceration | noun (n.) A tearing in pieces. |
delacrymation | noun (n.) An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. |
delactation | noun (n.) The act of weaning. |
delaine | noun (n.) A kind of fabric for women's dresses. |
delamination | noun (n.) Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated. |
delapsation | noun (n.) See Delapsion. |
delapsing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delapse |
delapsion | noun (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion. |
delassation | noun (n.) Fatigue. |
delating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delate |
delation | noun (n.) Conveyance. |
noun (n.) Accusation by an informer. |
delator | noun (n.) An accuser; an informer. |
delaware | noun (n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor. |
delawares | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory. |
delaying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delay |
delay | noun (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. |
noun (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. | |
noun (n.) To allay; to temper. | |
verb (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. | |
verb (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. |
delayer | noun (n.) One who delays; one who lingers. |
delayment | noun (n.) Hindrance. |
deleing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dele |
deleble | adjective (a.) Capable of being blotted out or erased. |
delectable | adjective (a.) Highly pleasing; delightful. |
delectation | noun (n.) Great pleasure; delight. |
delectus | noun (n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. |
delegacy | adjective (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. |
adjective (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. |
delegate | noun (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. |
noun (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting. | |
noun (n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution. | |
adjective (a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge. | |
verb (v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize. | |
verb (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit. |
delegating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delegate |
delegation | noun (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. |
noun (n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation. | |
noun (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. |
delegatory | adjective (a.) Holding a delegated position. |
delenda | noun (n. pl.) Things to be erased or blotted out. |
delenifical | adjective (a.) Assuaging pain. |
deleting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delete |
deleterious | adjective (a.) Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. |
deletery | noun (n.) That which destroys. |
adjective (a.) Destructive; poisonous. |
deletion | noun (n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction. |
deletitious | adjective (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper. |
deletive | adjective (a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate. |
deletory | noun (n.) That which blots out. |
delf | noun (n.) A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. |
noun (n.) Same as Delftware. |
delft | noun (n.) Same as Delftware. |
delftware | noun (n.) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence: |
noun (n.) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like. |
delibation | noun (n.) Act of tasting; a slight trial. |
deliberate | adjective (a.) Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. |
adjective (a.) Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result. | |
adjective (a.) Not hasty or sudden; slow. | |
verb (v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question. | |
verb (v. i.) To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning. |
deliberating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deliberate |
deliberateness | noun (n.) The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection. |
deliberation | noun (n.) The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. |
noun (n.) Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council. |
deliberative | noun (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. |
noun (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. |
deliberator | noun (n.) One who deliberates. |
delibrating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delibrate |
delibration | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark. |
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deacon | noun (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church. |
noun (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company. | |
verb (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off. | |
verb (v. t.) With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc. |
dealbation | noun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening. |
deambulation | noun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading. |
deauration | noun (n.) Act of gilding. |
debacchation | noun (n.) Wild raving or debauchery. |
debarkation | noun (n.) Disembarkation. |
debellation | noun (n.) The act of conquering or subduing. |
debilitation | noun (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness. |
debituminization | noun (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen. |
debulition | noun (n.) A bubbling or boiling over. |
decachordon | noun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp. |
noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts. |
decagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal. |
decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
decalcification | noun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter. |
decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
decantation | noun (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. |
decapitation | noun (n.) The act of beheading; beheading. |
decarbonization | noun (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon. |
decarburization | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing. |
decentralization | noun (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. |
deception | noun (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading. |
noun (n.) The state of being deceived or misled. | |
noun (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. |
decerption | noun (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping. |
noun (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. |
decertation | noun (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife. |
decession | noun (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion. |
decillion | noun (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.] |
decimation | noun (n.) A tithing. |
noun (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. | |
noun (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. |
decision | noun (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. |
noun (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. | |
noun (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. | |
noun (n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision. |
declamation | noun (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. |
noun (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. | |
noun (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. |
declaration | noun (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc. |
noun (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal. | |
noun (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington). | |
noun (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. |
declension | noun (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. |
noun (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. | |
noun (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. | |
noun (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. | |
noun (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. | |
noun (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined. |
declination | noun (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. |
noun (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. | |
noun (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. | |
noun (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. | |
noun (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. | |
noun (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south. | |
noun (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4. |
decoction | noun (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. |
noun (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. |
decollation | noun (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. |
noun (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. |
decoloration | noun (n.) The removal or absence of color. |
decomposition | noun (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc. |
noun (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements. | |
noun (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. |
deconcentration | noun (n.) Act of deconcentrating. |
decoration | noun (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
noun (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. | |
noun (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. |
decortication | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat. |
decreation | noun (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation. |
decrepitation | noun (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. |
decretion | noun (n.) A decrease. |
decrustation | noun (n.) The removal of a crust. |
decubation | noun (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence. |
decurion | noun (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers. |
decursion | noun (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. |
decurtation | noun (n.) Act of cutting short. |
decussation | noun (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. |
dedecoration | noun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor. |
dedentition | noun (n.) The shedding of teeth. |
dedication | noun (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. |
noun (n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use. | |
noun (n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor. |
dedition | noun (n.) The act of yielding; surrender. |
deduction | noun (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring. |
noun (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend. | |
noun (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. | |
noun (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent. |
deduplication | noun (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster. |
defalcation | noun (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. |
noun (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated. | |
noun (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement. |
defamation | noun (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. |
defatigation | noun (n.) Weariness; fatigue. |
defecation | noun (n.) The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification. |
noun (n.) The act or process of voiding excrement. |
defection | noun (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. |
defedation | noun (n.) The act of making foul; pollution. |
defibrination | noun (n.) The act or process of depriving of fibrin. |
defiguration | noun (n.) Disfiguration; mutilation. |
defiliation | noun (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents. |
definition | noun (n.) The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition. |
noun (n.) Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition. | |
noun (n.) Description; sort. | |
noun (n.) An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. | |
noun (n.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail. |
deflagration | noun (n.) A burning up; conflagration. |
noun (n.) The act or process of deflagrating. |
deflection | noun (n.) The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. |
noun (n.) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. | |
noun (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction. | |
noun (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load. |
deflectionization | noun (n.) The act of freeing from inflections. |
deflexion | noun (n.) See Deflection. |
defloration | noun (n.) The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin. |
noun (n.) That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. |
defluxion | noun (n.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. |
defoedation | noun (n.) Defedation. |
defoliation | noun (n.) The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves. |
deforciation | noun (n.) Same as Deforcement, n. |
deformation | noun (n.) The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. |
noun (n.) Transformation; change of shape. |
defraudation | noun (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. |
defunction | noun (n.) Death. |
degeneration | noun (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. |
noun (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. | |
noun (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. | |
noun (n.) The thing degenerated. |
deglutination | noun (n.) The act of ungluing. |
deglutition | noun (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. |
degradation | noun (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop. |
noun (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. | |
noun (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration. | |
noun (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc. | |
noun (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration. | |
noun (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole. |
degravation | adjective (a.) The act of making heavy. |
degustation | noun (n.) Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs. |
dehonestation | noun (n.) A dishonoring; disgracing. |
dehortation | noun (n.) Dissuasion; advice against something. |
dehydration | noun (n.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed. |
dehydrogenation | noun (n.) The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen. |
deification | noun (n.) The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise. |
dejection | noun (n.) A casting down; depression. |
noun (n.) The act of humbling or abasing one's self. | |
noun (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. | |
noun (n.) A low condition; weakness; inability. | |
noun (n.) The discharge of excrement. | |
noun (n.) Faeces; excrement. |
dejeration | noun (n.) The act of swearing solemnly. |
deligation | noun (n.) A binding up; a bandaging. |
delimitation | noun (n.) The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. |
delineation | noun (n.) The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively. |
noun (n.) A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words. |
delinition | noun (n.) A smearing. |
deliquation | noun (n.) A melting. |
deliquiation | noun (n.) The act of deliquiating. |
deliration | noun (n.) Aberration of mind; delirium. |
delitigation | noun (n.) Chiding; brawl. |
deltafication | noun (n.) The formation of a delta or of deltas. |
deltohedron | noun (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron. |
delusion | noun (n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. |
noun (n.) The state of being deluded or misled. | |
noun (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. |
demarcation | noun (n.) The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. |