First Names Rhyming DEMODOCUS
English Words Rhyming DEMODOCUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEMODOCUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEMODOCUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (emodocus) - English Words That Ends with emodocus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (modocus) - English Words That Ends with modocus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (odocus) - English Words That Ends with odocus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (docus) - English Words That Ends with docus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ocus) - English Words That Ends with ocus:
| crocus | noun (n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn. |
| | noun (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder. |
| focus | noun (n.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror. |
| | noun (n.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant. |
| | noun (n.) A central point; a point of concentration. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera. |
| hocus | noun (n.) One who cheats or deceives. |
| | noun (n.) Drugged liquor. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deceive or cheat. |
| | verb (v. t.) To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stupefy with drugged liquor. |
| hocuspocus | noun (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations. |
| | noun (n.) A juggler or trickster. |
| | noun (n.) A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cheat. |
| locus | noun (n.) A place; a locality. |
| | noun (n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (cus) - English Words That Ends with cus:
| abaciscus | noun (n.) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. |
| abacus | noun (n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China. |
| | noun (n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column. |
| | noun (n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work. |
| | noun (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. |
| amaracus | noun (n.) A fragrant flower. |
| ascococcus | noun (n.) A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci. |
| ascus | noun (n.) A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi. |
| astacus | noun (n.) A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish. |
| asteriscus | noun (n.) The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes. |
| bancus | noun (n.) Alt. of Bank |
| caucus | noun (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. |
| | verb (v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses. |
| cercus | noun (n.) See Cercopod. |
| circus | noun (n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows. |
| | noun (n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage. |
| | noun (n.) Circuit; space; inclosure. |
| cocculus indicus | noun (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant. |
| coccus | noun (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti). |
| | noun (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule. |
| cysticercus | noun (n.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle). |
| cytococcus | noun (n.) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell. |
| cuscus | noun (n.) A soft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa. |
| damascus | noun (n.) A city of Syria. |
| diplococcus | noun (n.) A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus. |
| discus | noun (n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. |
| | noun (n.) The exercise with the discus. |
| | noun (n.) A disk. See Disk. |
| ecclesiasticus | noun (n.) A book of the Apocrypha. |
| echinococcus | noun (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog. |
| ficus | noun (n.) A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree. |
| floccus | noun (n.) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. |
| | noun (n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds. |
| | noun (n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi. |
| fucus | noun (n.) A paint; a dye; also, false show. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed. |
| glaucus | noun (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white. |
| gonococcus | noun (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease. |
| hibiscus | noun (n.) A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe. |
| incus | noun (n.) An anvil. |
| | noun (n.) One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear. |
| | noun (n.) The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera. |
| lemniscus | noun (n.) One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala. |
| lentiscus | noun (n.) Alt. of Lentisk |
| leviticus | noun (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law. |
| lumbricus | noun (n.) A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm. |
| macacus | noun (n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows. |
| mancus | noun (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money. |
| manducus | noun (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage. |
| meniscus | noun (n.) A crescent. |
| | noun (n.) A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. |
| | noun (n.) An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. |
| micrococcus | noun (n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus. |
| mucus | noun (n.) A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used. |
| | noun (n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants. |
| opinicus | noun (n.) An imaginary animal borne as a charge, having wings, an eagle's head, and a short tail; -- sometimes represented without wings. |
| ovococcus | noun (n.) A germinal vesicle. |
| quercus | noun (n.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak. |
| picus | noun (n.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species. |
| pneumococcus | noun (n.) A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease. |
| propithecus | noun (n.) A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. See Indris. |
| protococcus | noun (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis). |
| sambucus | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder. |
| spermococcus | noun (n.) The nucleus of the sperm cell. |
| streptococcus | noun (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved. |
| succus | noun (n.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEMODOCUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (demodocu) - Words That Begins with demodocu:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (demodoc) - Words That Begins with demodoc:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (demodo) - Words That Begins with demodo:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (demod) - Words That Begins with demod:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (demo) - Words That Begins with demo:
| demobilization | noun (n.) The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing. |
| democracy | noun (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
| | noun (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. |
| | noun (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. |
| | noun (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
| democrat | noun (n.) One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people. |
| | noun (n.) A member of the Democratic party. |
| | noun (n.) A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats. |
| democratic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to a political party so called. |
| | adjective (a.) Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. |
| democratical | adjective (a.) Democratic. |
| democratism | noun (n.) The principles or spirit of a democracy. |
| democratist | noun (n.) A democrat. |
| democraty | noun (n.) Democracy. |
| demogorgon | noun (n.) A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. |
| demography | noun (n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc. |
| demoiselle | noun (n.) A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid. |
| | noun (n.) The Numidian crane (Anthropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. |
| | noun (n.) A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion. |
| demolishing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demolish |
| demolisher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. |
| demolishment | noun (n.) Demolition. |
| demolition | noun (n.) The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes. |
| demolitionist | noun (n.) A demolisher. |
| 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. |
| demoness | noun (n.) A female demon. |
| demonetization | noun (n.) The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized. |
| demoniac | noun (n.) A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. |
| | noun (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Demoniacal |
| demoniacal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices. |
| | adjective (a.) Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power. |
| demoniacism | noun (n.) The state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs. |
| demonial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a demon. |
| demonian | adjective (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon. |
| demonianism | noun (n.) The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons. |
| demoniasm | noun (n.) See Demonianism. |
| demonic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. |
| demonism | noun (n.) The belief in demons or false gods. |
| demonist | noun (n.) A believer in, or worshiper of, demons. |
| demonizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demonize |
| demonocracy | noun (n.) The power or government of demons. |
| demonographer | noun (n.) A demonologist. |
| demonolatry | noun (n.) The worship of demons. |
| demonologer | noun (n.) One versed in demonology. |
| demonologic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Demonological |
| demonological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to demonology. |
| demonologist | noun (n.) One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology. |
| demonology | noun (n.) A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations. |
| demonomagy | noun (n.) Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic. |
| demonomania | noun (n.) A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils. |
| demonomist | noun (n.) One in subjection to a demon, or to demons. |
| demonomy | noun (n.) The dominion of demons. |
| demonry | noun (n.) Demoniacal influence or possession. |
| demonship | noun (n.) The state of a demon. |
| demonstrability | noun (n.) The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness. |
| demonstrable | adjective (a.) Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. |
| | adjective (a.) Proved; apparent. |
| demonstrableness | noun (n.) The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability. |
| demonstrance | noun (n.) Demonstration; proof. |
| demonstrater | noun (n.) See Demonstrator. |
| demonstration | noun (n.) The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason. |
| | noun (n.) An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show. |
| | noun (n.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. |
| | noun (n.) (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. |
| | noun (n.) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself. |
| | noun (n.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dem) - Words That Begins with dem:
| demagog | noun (n.) Demagogue. |
| demagogic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Demagogical |
| demagogical | adjective (a.) Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious. |
| demagogism | noun (n.) The practices of a demagogue. |
| demagogue | noun (n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader. |
| demagogy | noun (n.) Demagogism. |
| demain | noun (n.) Rule; management. |
| | noun (n.) See Demesne. |
| demanding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demand |
| demandable | adjective (a.) That may be demanded or claimed. |
| demandant | noun (n.) One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff. |
| demander | noun (n.) One who demands. |
| demandress | noun (n.) A woman who demands. |
| demantoid | noun (n.) A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name. |
| demarcation | noun (n.) The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. |
| demarch | noun (n.) March; walk; gait. |
| | noun (n.) A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece. |
| demarkation | noun (n.) Same as Demarcation. |
| deme | noun (n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. |
| | noun (n.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids. |
| demeaning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demean |
| 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. |
| demeanance | noun (n.) Demeanor. |
| demeanure | noun (n.) Behavior. |
| demency | noun (n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity. |
| dement | adjective (a.) Demented; dementate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive of reason; to make mad. |
| dementation | noun (n.) The act of depriving of reason; madness. |
| demented | adjective (a.) Insane; mad; of unsound mind. |
| dementia | noun (n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy. |
| demephitizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demephitize |
| demerit | noun (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. |
| | noun (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit. |
| | noun (n.) The state of one who deserves ill. |
| | noun (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame. |
| | noun (n.) To depreciate or cry down. |
| | verb (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame. |
| demersed | adjective (a.) Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed. |
| demersion | noun (n.) The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water. |
| demesne | noun (n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. |
| demesnial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne. |
| demi | noun (n.) See Demy, n. |
| demibastion | noun (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank. |
| demibrigade | noun (n.) A half brigade. |
| demicadence | noun (n.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note. |
| demicannon | noun (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. |
| demicircle | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass. |
| demiculverin | noun (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds. |
| demidevil | noun (n.) A half devil. |
| demigod | noun (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal. |
| demigoddess | noun (n.) A female demigod. |
| demigorge | noun (n.) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. |
| demigration | noun (n.) Emigration. |
| demigroat | noun (n.) A half groat. |
| demijohn | noun (n.) A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork. |
| demilance | noun (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer. |
| demilancer | noun (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance. |
| demilune | noun (n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin. |
| | noun (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands. |
| demiman | noun (n.) A half man. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEMODOCUS:
English Words which starts with 'demo' and ends with 'ocus':
English Words which starts with 'dem' and ends with 'cus':
English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 'us':
| deccagynous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles. |
| decandrous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens. |
| decaphyllous | adjective (a.) Having ten leaves. |
| deccapodous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed. |
| deceptious | adjective (a.) Tending deceive; delusive. |
| deciduous | adjective (a.) Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane. |
| declinous | adjective (a.) Declinate. |
| declivitous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Declivous |
| declivous | adjective (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill. |
| decorous | adjective (a.) Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. |
| decubitus | noun (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus. |
| dedalous | adjective (a.) See Daedalous. |
| dedecorous | adjective (a.) Disgraceful; unbecoming. |
| dedimus | noun (n.) A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc. |
| defamous | adjective (a.) Defamatory. |
| defectious | adjective (a.) Having defects; imperfect. |
| defectuous | adjective (a.) Full of defects; imperfect. |
| defluous | adjective (a.) Flowing down; falling off. |
| degenerous | adjective (a.) Degenerate; base. |
| deglutitious | adjective (a.) Pertaining to deglutition. |
| deignous | adjective (a.) Haughty; disdainful. |
| deinteous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Deintevous |
| deintevous | adjective (a.) Rare; excellent; costly. |
| deiparous | adjective (a.) Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary. |
| delectus | noun (n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. |
| deleterious | adjective (a.) Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. |
| deletitious | adjective (a.) Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper. |
| delicious | adjective (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. |
| | adjective (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate. |
| delightous | adjective (a.) Delightful. |
| delirious | adjective (a.) Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies. |
| delphinus | noun (n.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1. |
| | noun (n.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila. |
| denarius | noun (n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as. |
| dendrologous | adjective (a.) Relating to dendrology. |
| dentiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing teeth; dentigerous. |
| dentigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing teeth or toothlike structures. |
| depilous | adjective (a.) Hairless. |
| desidious | adjective (a.) Idle; lazy. |
| desirous | noun (n.) Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. |
| desmognathous | adjective (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. |
| despiteous | adjective (a.) Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. |
| despitous | adjective (a.) Despiteous; very angry; cruel. |
| desultorious | adjective (a.) Desultory. |
| detractious | adjective (a.) Containing detraction; detractory. |
| detritus | noun (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration. |
| devious | adjective (a.) Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. |
| | adjective (a.) Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. |
| dexterous | adjective (a.) Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. |
| | adjective (a.) Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. |
| | adjective (a.) Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. |
| dextrogerous | adjective (a.) See Dextrogyrate. |
| dextrous | noun (n.) Alt. of Dextrousness |
