Name Report For First Name DEON:
DEON
First name DEON's origin is English. DEON means "abbreviation of dionysius". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DEON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of deon.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DEON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DEON - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DEON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DEON AS A WHOLE:
deona deondra deonna deonne gideon gedeonNAMES RHYMING WITH DEON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eon) - Names That Ends with eon:
acteon alcmaeon creon cleon dameon daveon dayveon deveon jamarreon keon keveon napoleon simeon symeon taveon theon traveon actaeon leon teon caerleonRhyming 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 erromon 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 aymon ganelon vernon glendon lon anton acheron aeson agamemnon amphion amphitryon andraemon arion bellerophon biton cadmon cenon cercyon charon chiron corydon daemon demogorgon demophon deucalion echion endymion erysichthon euryton geryon haemon hyperion iasion iason ion ixionNAMES RHYMING WITH DEON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (deo) - Names That Begins with deo:
deoch deogol deoradhain deorsa deortun deorward deorwineRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:
dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere dechtire decla declan dedr dedre dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandra deeann deeanna deedra deegan deems deen deena deerwa deerward defena dehaan deheune deianira deidra deidre deiene deikun deina deiphobus deirdra deirdre deja deka deke dekel dekle del delaine delancy delane delaney delanie delano delbert delbin delbina delbine delcine delfi delfina delia delice delicia delight delila delilahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEON:
First 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 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 davian davidson davin davion davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton delman delmon delron delsin delton delvin delvon deman demason den deneen dennison denton derian deron derren derrian derrin dervin dervon derwan derwin derwyn deshawnEnglish Words Rhyming DEON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEON AS A WHOLE:
| deontological | adjective (a.) Pertaining to deontology. |
| deontologist | noun (n.) One versed in deontology. |
| deontology | noun (n.) The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation. |
| melodeon | noun (n.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine. |
| noun (n.) A music hall. |
| nickelodeon | noun (n.) A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. |
| odeon | noun (n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eon) - English Words That Ends with eon:
| aeon | noun (n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon. |
| noun (n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age. | |
| noun (n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being. |
| badigeon | noun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface. |
| noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc. |
| bludgeon | noun (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon. |
| cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
| chameleon | noun (n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. |
| chirurgeon | noun (n.) A surgeon. |
| clergeon | noun (n.) A chorister boy. |
| curmudgeon | noun (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. |
| dudgeon | noun (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. |
| noun (n.) The haft of a dagger. | |
| noun (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. | |
| noun (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure. | |
| adjective (a.) Homely; rude; coarse. |
| dungeon | noun (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon. |
| eon | noun (n.) Alt. of Aeon |
| escocheon | noun (n.) Escutcheon. |
| escutcheon | noun (n.) The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister. |
| noun (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written. | |
| noun (n.) A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole. | |
| noun (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area. |
| galleon | noun (n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. |
| goodgeon | noun (n.) Same as Gudgeon, 5. |
| gudgeon | noun (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. |
| noun (n.) What may be got without skill or merit. | |
| noun (n.) A person easily duped or cheated. | |
| noun (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal. | |
| noun (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. |
| gyropigeon | noun (n.) A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. |
| habergeon | noun (n.) Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. |
| haubergeon | noun (n.) See Habergeon. |
| inescutcheon | noun (n.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield. |
| leon | noun (n.) A lion. |
| letheon | noun (n.) Sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent. |
| lophosteon | noun (n.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds. |
| luncheon | noun (n.) A lump of food. |
| noun (n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take luncheon. |
| magdaleon | noun (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster. |
| malacosteon | noun (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking. |
| metosteon | noun (n.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification. |
| mezereon | noun (n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine. |
| melungeon | noun (n.) One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct. |
| napoleon | noun (n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86. |
| noun (n.) A game in which each player holds five cards, the eldest hand stating the number of tricks he will bid to take, any subsequent player having the right to overbid him or a previous bidder, the highest bidder naming the trump and winning a number of points equal to his bid if he makes so many tricks, or losing the same number of points if he fails to make them. | |
| noun (n.) A bid to take five tricks at napoleon. It is ordinarily the highest bid; but sometimes bids are allowed of wellington, or of blucher, to take five tricks, or pay double, or treble, if unsuccessful. | |
| noun (n.) A Napoleon gun. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of top boot of the middle of the 19th century. | |
| noun (n.) A shape and size of cigar. It is about seven inches long. |
| paeon | noun (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. |
| pantheon | noun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. |
| noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. |
| peon | noun (n.) See Poon. |
| noun (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. | |
| noun (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt. | |
| noun (n.) See 2d Pawn. |
| pheon | noun (n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge. |
| pigeon | noun (n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. |
| noun (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. |
| pigwidgeon | noun (n.) A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy. |
| pleurosteon | noun (n.) The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds. |
| pompoleon | noun (n.) See Pompelmous. |
| puncheon | noun (n.) A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc. |
| noun (n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. | |
| noun (n.) A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. | |
| noun (n.) A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons. |
| sconcheon | noun (n.) A squinch. |
| scutcheon | noun (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. |
| noun (n.) A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4. |
| sturgeon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder. |
| surgeon | noun (n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. |
| tampeon | noun (n.) See Tampion. |
| truncheon | noun (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. |
| noun (n.) A baton, or military staff of command. | |
| noun (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon. |
| urosteon | noun (n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds. |
| widgeon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly. |
| wigeon | noun (n.) A widgeon. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (deo) - Words That Begins with deo:
| deobstruent | noun (n.) A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient. |
| adjective (a.) Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. |
| deodand | noun (n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand. |
| deodar | noun (n.) A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree. |
| deodate | noun (n.) A gift or offering to God. |
| deodorant | noun (n.) A deodorizer. |
| deodorization | noun (n.) The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities. |
| deodorizer | noun (n.) He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors. |
| deoperculate | adjective (a.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses. |
| deoppilation | noun (n.) Removal of whatever stops up the passages. |
| deoppilative | noun (a. & n.) Deobstruent; aperient. |
| deordination | noun (n.) Disorder; dissoluteness. |
| deoxidation | noun (n.) The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide. |
| deoxidization | noun (n.) Deoxidation. |
| deoxidizer | noun (n.) That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer. |
| deoxygenation | noun (n.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEON:
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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