First Names Rhyming DEMOPHON
English Words Rhyming DEMOPHON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEMOPHON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEMOPHON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (emophon) - English Words That Ends with emophon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (mophon) - English Words That Ends with mophon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ophon) - English Words That Ends with ophon:
| antistrophon | noun (n.) An argument retorted on an opponent. |
| bellerophon | noun (n.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age. |
| colophon | noun (n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (phon) - English Words That Ends with phon:
| antiphon | noun (n.) A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone. |
| | noun (n.) A verse said before and after the psalms. |
| gryphon | noun (n.) The griffin vulture. |
| harmoniphon | noun (n.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube. |
| morphon | noun (n.) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. |
| phragmosiphon | noun (n.) The siphon of a phragmocone. |
| prosiphon | noun (n.) A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon. |
| siphon | noun (n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level. |
| | noun (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata. |
| | noun (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon. |
| | noun (n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata. |
| | noun (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell. |
| | noun (n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans. |
| | noun (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans. |
| | noun (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids. |
| | noun (n.) A siphon bottle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level. |
| syphon | noun (n.) See Syphon. |
| typhon | noun (n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him. |
| | noun (n.) A violent whirlwind; a typhoon. |
| thermosiphon | noun (n.) An arrangement of siphon tubes for assisting circulation in a liquid. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (hon) - English Words That Ends with hon:
| anacoluthon | noun (n.) A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part. |
| antichthon | noun (n.) A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. |
| | noun (n.) Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. |
| archon | noun (n.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. |
| autochthon | noun (n.) One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians. |
| | noun (n.) That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin. |
| brehon | noun (n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge. |
| cabochon | noun (n.) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon. |
| echon | noun (pron.) Alt. of Echoon |
| eulachon | noun (n.) The candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish. |
| everichon | noun (pron.) Alt. of Everychon |
| everychon | noun (pron.) Every one. |
| harpsichon | noun (n.) A harpsichord. |
| hexastichon | noun (n.) A poem consisting of six verses or lines. |
| ornithon | noun (n.) An aviary; a poultry house. |
| panshon | noun (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. |
| phaethon | noun (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds. |
| python | noun (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake. |
| | noun (n.) A diviner by spirits. |
| phlegethon | noun (n.) One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water. |
| sorehon | noun (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. |
| trilithon | noun (n.) A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts. |
| urchon | noun (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEMOPHON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (demopho) - Words That Begins with demopho:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (demoph) - Words That Begins with demoph:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (demop) - Words That Begins with demop:
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 DEMOPHON:
English Words which starts with 'dem' and ends with 'hon':
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. |
| decagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal. |
| decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
| decalcification | noun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter. |
| decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
| decantation | noun (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. |
| decapitation | noun (n.) The act of beheading; beheading. |
| decarbonization | noun (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon. |
| decarburization | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing. |
| decentralization | noun (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. |
| deception | noun (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being deceived or misled. |
| | noun (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. |
| decerption | noun (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping. |
| | noun (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. |
| decertation | noun (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife. |
| decession | noun (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion. |
| decillion | noun (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.] |
| decimation | noun (n.) A tithing. |
| | noun (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. |
| | noun (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. |
| decision | noun (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. |
| | noun (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. |
| | noun (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. |
| | noun (n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision. |
| declamation | noun (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. |
| | noun (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. |
| | noun (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. |
| declaration | noun (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc. |
| | noun (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal. |
| | noun (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington). |
| | noun (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. |
| declension | noun (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. |
| | noun (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. |
| | noun (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. |
| | noun (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined. |
| declination | noun (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. |
| | noun (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. |
| | noun (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. |
| | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. |
| | noun (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. |
| | noun (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south. |
| | noun (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4. |
| decoction | noun (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. |
| | noun (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. |
| decollation | noun (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. |
| | noun (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. |
| decoloration | noun (n.) The removal or absence of color. |
| decomposition | noun (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements. |
| | noun (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. |
| deconcentration | noun (n.) Act of deconcentrating. |
| decoration | noun (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
| | noun (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. |
| decortication | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat. |
| decreation | noun (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation. |
| decrepitation | noun (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. |
| decretion | noun (n.) A decrease. |
| decrustation | noun (n.) The removal of a crust. |
| decubation | noun (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence. |
| decurion | noun (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers. |
| decursion | noun (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. |
| decurtation | noun (n.) Act of cutting short. |
| decussation | noun (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. |
| dedecoration | noun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor. |
| dedentition | noun (n.) The shedding of teeth. |
| dedication | noun (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. |
| | noun (n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use. |
| | noun (n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor. |
| dedition | noun (n.) The act of yielding; surrender. |
| deduction | noun (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring. |
| | noun (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend. |
| | noun (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. |
| | noun (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent. |
| deduplication | noun (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster. |
| defalcation | noun (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. |
| | noun (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated. |
| | noun (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement. |
| defamation | noun (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion. |
| defatigation | noun (n.) Weariness; fatigue. |
| defecation | noun (n.) The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification. |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of voiding excrement. |
| defection | noun (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. |
| defedation | noun (n.) The act of making foul; pollution. |
| defibrination | noun (n.) The act or process of depriving of fibrin. |
| defiguration | noun (n.) Disfiguration; mutilation. |
| defiliation | noun (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents. |
| definition | noun (n.) The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition. |
| | noun (n.) Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition. |
| | noun (n.) Description; sort. |
| | noun (n.) An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. |
| | noun (n.) Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail. |
| deflagration | noun (n.) A burning up; conflagration. |
| | noun (n.) The act or process of deflagrating. |
| deflection | noun (n.) The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. |
| | noun (n.) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. |
| | noun (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction. |
| | noun (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load. |
| deflectionization | noun (n.) The act of freeing from inflections. |
| deflexion | noun (n.) See Deflection. |
| defloration | noun (n.) The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin. |
| | noun (n.) That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. |
| defluxion | noun (n.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. |
| defoedation | noun (n.) Defedation. |
| defoliation | noun (n.) The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves. |
| deforciation | noun (n.) Same as Deforcement, n. |
| deformation | noun (n.) The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. |
| | noun (n.) Transformation; change of shape. |
| defraudation | noun (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. |
| defunction | noun (n.) Death. |
| degeneration | noun (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. |
| | noun (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. |
| | noun (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. |
| | noun (n.) The thing degenerated. |
| deglutination | noun (n.) The act of ungluing. |
| deglutition | noun (n.) The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. |
| degradation | noun (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. |
| | noun (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration. |
| | noun (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc. |
| | noun (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration. |
| | noun (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole. |
| degravation | adjective (a.) The act of making heavy. |
| degustation | noun (n.) Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs. |
| dehonestation | noun (n.) A dishonoring; disgracing. |
| dehortation | noun (n.) Dissuasion; advice against something. |
| dehydration | noun (n.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed. |
| dehydrogenation | noun (n.) The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen. |
| deification | noun (n.) The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise. |
| dejection | noun (n.) A casting down; depression. |
| | noun (n.) The act of humbling or abasing one's self. |
| | noun (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. |
| | noun (n.) A low condition; weakness; inability. |
| | noun (n.) The discharge of excrement. |
| | noun (n.) Faeces; excrement. |
| dejeration | noun (n.) The act of swearing solemnly. |
| 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. |
