First Names Rhyming DEMOGORGON
English Words Rhyming DEMOGORGON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEMOGORGON AS A WHOLE:
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEMOGORGON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 9 Letters (emogorgon) - English Words That Ends with emogorgon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (mogorgon) - English Words That Ends with mogorgon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ogorgon) - English Words That Ends with ogorgon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (gorgon) - English Words That Ends with gorgon:
| gorgon | noun (n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. |
| | noun (n.) Anything very ugly or horrid. |
| | noun (n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (orgon) - English Words That Ends with orgon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rgon) - English Words That Ends with rgon:
| argon | noun (n.) A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. |
| | noun (n.) A colorless, odorless gas occurring in the air (of which it constitutes 0.93 per cent by volume), in volcanic gases, etc.; -- so named on account of its inertness by Rayleigh and Ramsay, who prepared and examined it in 1894-95. Symbol, A; at. wt., 39.9. Argon is condensible to a colorless liquid boiling at -186.1¡ C. and to a solid melting at -189.6¡ C. It has a characteristic spectrum. No compounds of it are known, but there is physical evidence that its molecule is monatomic. Weight of one liter at 0¡ C. and 760 mm., 1.7828 g. |
| ergon | noun (n.) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent. |
| | noun (n.) = Erg. |
| fourgon | noun (n.) An ammunition wagon. |
| | noun (n.) A French baggage wagon. |
| jargon | noun (n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. |
| parergon | noun (n.) See Parergy. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (gon) - English Words That Ends with gon:
| agon | noun (n.) A contest for a prize at the public games. |
| amblygon | noun (n.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. |
| analogon | noun (n.) Analogue. |
| andropogon | noun (n.) A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schoenanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery. |
| biggon | noun (n.) Alt. of Biggonnet |
| chiliagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. |
| cogon | noun (n.) A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| dodecagon | noun (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles. |
| dragon | noun (n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. |
| | noun (n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. |
| | noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco. |
| | noun (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent. |
| | noun (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. |
| | noun (n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of carrier pigeon. |
| | noun (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms. |
| endecagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of eleven sides and angles. |
| enneagon | noun (n.) A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon. |
| flagon | noun (n.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. |
| flapdragon | noun (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. |
| | noun (n.) The thing thus caught and eaten. |
| | verb (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. |
| harpagon | noun (n.) A grappling iron. |
| hendecagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. |
| heptagon | noun (n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles. |
| hexagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of six angles. |
| homologon | noun (n.) See Homologue. |
| isagon | adjective (a.) A figure or polygon whose angles are equal. |
| martagon | noun (n.) A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia. |
| nonagon | noun (n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles. |
| octagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles. |
| | noun (n.) Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. |
| orthogon | noun (n.) A rectangular figure. |
| oxygon | noun (n.) A triangle having three acute angles. |
| quindecagon | noun (n.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides. |
| | noun (n.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides. |
| paragon | noun (n.) A companion; a match; an equal. |
| | noun (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition. |
| | noun (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. |
| | noun (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type. |
| | verb (v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. |
| | verb (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival. |
| | verb (v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison. |
| pendragon | noun (n.) A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. |
| pentagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. |
| polygon | noun (n.) A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles. |
| protagon | noun (n.) A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies. |
| rouge dragon | noun (n.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms. |
| snapdragon | noun (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon. |
| | noun (n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers. |
| | noun (n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. |
| tarragon | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar. |
| tetragon | noun (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. |
| trigon | noun (n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle. |
| | noun (n.) A division consisting of three signs. |
| | noun (n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle. |
| | noun (n.) The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid (/). |
| trogon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage. |
| trygon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera. |
| undecagon | noun (n.) A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides. |
| wagon | noun (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. |
| | noun (n.) A freight car on a railway. |
| | noun (n.) A chariot |
| | noun (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEMOGORGON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 9 Letters (demogorgo) - Words That Begins with demogorgo:
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (demogorg) - Words That Begins with demogorg:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (demogor) - Words That Begins with demogor:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (demogo) - Words That Begins with demogo:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (demog) - Words That Begins with demog:
| demography | noun (n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc. |
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. |
| 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. |
| demonstrative | noun (n.) A demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. |
| | adjective (a.) Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative. |
| | adjective (a.) Consisting of eulogy or of invective. |
| demonstrativeness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being demonstrative. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEMOGORGON:
English Words which starts with 'demo' and ends with 'rgon':
English Words which starts with 'dem' and ends with 'gon':
English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 'on':
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| delapsion | noun (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion. |
| delassation | noun (n.) Fatigue. |
| delation | noun (n.) Conveyance. |
| | noun (n.) Accusation by an informer. |
| delectation | noun (n.) Great pleasure; delight. |
| 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. |
| deletion | noun (n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction. |
| delibation | noun (n.) Act of tasting; a slight trial. |
| 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. |
