First Names Rhyming DEUCALION
English Words Rhyming DEUCALION
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEUCALİON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEUCALİON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (eucalion) - English Words That Ends with eucalion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ucalion) - English Words That Ends with ucalion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (calion) - English Words That Ends with calion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (alion) - English Words That Ends with alion:
| battalion | noun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. |
| | noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle. |
| | noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form into battalions. |
| pnigalion | noun (n.) Nightmare. |
| talion | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| tatterdemalion | noun (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lion) - English Words That Ends with lion:
| anthelion | noun (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank. |
| aphelion | noun (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion. |
| billion | noun (n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. |
| bullion | noun (n.) Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. |
| | noun (n.) Base or uncurrent coin. |
| | noun (n.) Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent. |
| cotillion | noun (n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille. |
| | noun (n.) A tune which regulates the dance. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts. |
| | noun (n.) A formal ball. |
| cullion | noun (n.) A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. |
| dandelion | noun (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves. |
| 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.] |
| ganglion | noun (n.) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve. |
| | noun (n.) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion. |
| | noun (n.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. |
| intermodillion | noun (n.) The space between two modillions. |
| lion | noun (n.) A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane. |
| | noun (n.) A sign and a constellation; Leo. |
| | noun (n.) An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time. |
| mandilion | noun (n.) See Mandil. |
| maniglion | noun (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance. |
| medallion | noun (n.) A large medal or memorial coin. |
| | noun (n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief. |
| million | noun (n.) The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred. |
| | noun (n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number. |
| | noun (n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the. |
| modillion | noun (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances. |
| mullion | noun (n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An upright member of a framing. See Stile. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions. |
| nonillion | noun (n.) According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| obelion | noun (n.) The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins. |
| octillion | noun (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration. |
| quadrillion | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| quintilllion | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| padelion | noun (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. |
| parhelion | noun (n.) A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene. |
| pavilion | noun (n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. |
| | noun (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile. |
| | noun (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Tent (Her.) |
| | noun (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant. |
| | noun (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. |
| | noun (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. |
| perduellion | noun (n.) Treason. |
| perihelion | noun (n.) Alt. of Perihelium |
| pillion | noun (n.) A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. |
| pommelion | noun (n.) The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon. |
| pompillion | noun (n.) An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. |
| postilion | noun (n.) One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. |
| prillion | noun (n.) Tin extracted from the slag. |
| rapscallion | noun (n.) A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. |
| rascallion | noun (n.) A low, mean wretch. |
| scallion | noun (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. |
| | noun (n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. |
| scholion | noun (n.) A scholium. |
| scullion | noun (n.) A scalion. |
| | noun (n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. |
| selion | noun (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. |
| septillion | noun (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration. |
| sextillion | noun (n.) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration. |
| slubberdegullion | noun (n.) A mean, dirty wretch. |
| stallion | noun (n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding. |
| stellion | noun (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard. |
| stillion | noun (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. |
| tabellion | noun (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. |
| tourbillion | noun (n.) An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire. |
| trillion | noun (n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration. |
| turbillion | noun (n.) A whirl; a vortex. |
| triskelion | noun (n.) Alt. of Triskele |
| vermilion | noun (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ion) - English Words That Ends with ion:
| abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
| abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
| abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
| abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
| abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
| abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
| abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
| | noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. |
| | noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. |
| | noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
| abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
| abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| | noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. |
| | noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. |
| | noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
| | noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. |
| | noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. |
| | noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. |
| | noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. |
| | noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
| abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
| abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
| abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. |
| | noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
| abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
| abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
| | noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
| ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
| | noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
| ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
| ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
| | noun (n.) Extirpation. |
| | noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
| ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
| abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
| ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
| | noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. |
| | noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
| abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
| abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
| abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
| abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
| abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
| | noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. |
| | noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
| abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
| | noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. |
| | noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. |
| | noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
| abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
| | noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. |
| | noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
| abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
| abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
| abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
| abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
| abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
| abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
| abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being cut off. |
| | noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
| absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
| absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| | noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. |
| | noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. |
| | noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. |
| | noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. |
| | noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
| absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
| absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
| | noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. |
| | noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
| abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
| abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
| abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
| | adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. |
| | adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. |
| | adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. |
| | adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. |
| | adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. |
| | adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
| abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
| absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
| acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
| accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEUCALİON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (deucalio) - Words That Begins with deucalio:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (deucali) - Words That Begins with deucali:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (deucal) - Words That Begins with deucal:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (deuca) - Words That Begins with deuca:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (deuc) - Words That Begins with deuc:
| deuce | noun (n.) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts. |
| | noun (n.) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game. |
| | noun (n.) The devil; a demon. |
| deuced | adjective (a.) Devilish; excessive; extreme. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (deu) - Words That Begins with deu:
| deuse | adjective (a.) Alt. of Deused |
| deused | adjective (a.) See Deuce, Deuced. |
| deuterocanonical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc. |
| deuterogamist | noun (n.) One who marries the second time. |
| deuterogamy | noun (n.) A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. |
| deuterogenic | adjective (a.) Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks. |
| deuteronomist | noun (n.) The writer of Deuteronomy. |
| deuteronomy | noun (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses. |
| deuteropathia | noun (n.) Alt. of Deuteropathy |
| deuteropathy | noun (n.) A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach. |
| deuteropathic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy. |
| deuteroscopy | noun (n.) Second sight. |
| | noun (n.) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. |
| deuterozooid | noun (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids. |
| deuthydroguret | noun (n.) Same as Deutohydroguret. |
| deutohydroguret | noun (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical. |
| deutoplasm | noun (n.) The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk. |
| deutoplastic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm. |
| deutosulphuret | noun (n.) A disulphide. |
| deutoxide | noun (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide. |
| deutzia | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEUCALİON:
English Words which starts with 'deuc' and ends with 'lion':
English Words which starts with 'deu' and ends with 'ion':
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. |
| 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. |
