DERON
First name DERON's origin is Hebrew. DERON means "free". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DERON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of deron.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with DERON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming DERON
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DERON AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH DERON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (eron) - Names That Ends with eron:
acheron cameron ciceron eron kameron kieron leron neron sheron theron veron aleron galeron geronRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ron) - Names That Ends with ron:
hebron charon chiron myron audron avaron camaron farron kamron karon modron aaron abarron adron aron baron barron biron bron buiron camron camshron daron darron delron devron duron efron ephron faron ferron jarron jayron jerron kevron kyron ron taron terron therron waldron miron mai-ron byron petron sharon yaron doron garon garronRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralstonNAMES RHYMING WITH DERON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (dero) - Names That Begins with dero:
derora derorice deroritRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (der) - Names That Begins with der:
der derald derebourne dereck derek dereka derell derforgal derforgala derham derian derica derick dericka derik dermod dermot derrall derrance derrek derrell derren derrian derrica derrick derrik derrill derrin derrold derry derryl derval dervilia dervin dervla dervon dervorgilla derwan derward derwent derwin derwyn deryck derykRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:
dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere dechtire decla declan dedr dedre dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandra deeann deeanna deedra deegan deems deenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DERON:
First Names which starts with 'de' and ends with 'on':
delmon delton delvon demason demogorgon demophon dennison denton deon deston deucalion deveon devion devlon devonFirst Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':
dacian daegan daelan daelyn daelynn daemon dagan dagen dagian daijon dailyn daimhin daimmen dain dainan dairion dalan dalen dallan dallen dallin dallon dalon dalston dalton dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damian damiean damien damon dan danathon daniel-sean dann dannon danon danton danylynn daran dareen daren darien darin darleen darolyn darrellyn darren darrin darryn dartagnan darton darvin darwin darwyn darylyn daryn daveen daveon davian davidson davin davion davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton dayveon dehaan deikun delbin delman delsin delvin demanEnglish Words Rhyming DERON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DERON AS A WHOLE:
ecderon | noun (n.) See Ecteron. |
enderon | noun (n.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DERON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (eron) - English Words That Ends with eron:
acheron | noun (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. |
archenteron | noun (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. |
aileron | noun (n.) A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church. |
noun (n.) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane. |
chaperon | noun (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. |
noun (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals. | |
noun (n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector. | |
verb (v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. |
decameron | noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. |
dzeron | noun (n.) The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China. |
ecteron | noun (n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. |
enteron | noun (n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal. |
ephemeron | noun (n.) One of the ephemeral flies. |
epimeron | noun (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. |
noun (n.) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum. |
heron | noun (n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons. |
hexahemeron | noun (n.) A term of six days. |
noun (n.) The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis. |
hieron | noun (n.) A consecrated place; esp., a temple. |
mesenteron | noun (n.) All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod/um, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod/um, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast. |
moneron | noun (n.) One of the Monera. |
monopteron | noun (n.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella. |
nycthemeron | noun (n.) The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours. |
oberon | noun (n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab. |
octaemeron | noun (n.) A fast of eight days before a great festival. |
quarteron | noun (n.) A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Quarteroon | |
noun (n.) A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Quarteroon |
quateron | noun (n.) See 2d Quarteron. |
noun (n.) See 2d Quarteron. |
percheron | noun (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman. |
perienteron | noun (n.) The primitive perivisceral cavity. |
phytomeron | noun (n.) An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton. |
pteron | noun (n.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other. |
puceron | noun (n.) Any plant louse, or aphis. |
seron | noun (n.) Alt. of Seroon |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ron) - English Words That Ends with ron:
almendron | noun (n.) The lofty Brazil-nut tree. |
anatron | noun (n.) Native carbonate of soda; natron. |
noun (n.) Glass gall or sandiver. | |
noun (n.) Saltpeter. |
andiron | noun (n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons. |
andron | noun (n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house. |
apastron | noun (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary. |
apron | noun (n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings. |
noun (n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; | |
noun (n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. | |
noun (n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. | |
noun (n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon. | |
noun (n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel. | |
noun (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut. | |
noun (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent. | |
noun (n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer. | |
noun (n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing. | |
noun (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab. |
baron | noun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. |
noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. |
beakiron | noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil. |
boron | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B. |
caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
catoptron | noun (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. |
catopron | noun (n.) See Catopter. |
chaldron | noun (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. |
chamfron | noun (n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. |
charon | noun (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. |
chaudron | noun (n.) See Chawdron. |
chauldron | noun (n.) See Chawdron. |
chawdron | noun (n.) Entrails. |
chevron | noun (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center. |
noun (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat. | |
noun (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. |
chiliahedron | noun (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces |
citron | noun (n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. |
noun (n.) A citron tree. | |
noun (n.) A citron melon. |
cobiron | noun (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top. |
cascaron | noun (n.) Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. |
coelectron | noun (n.) See Electron. |
decahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. |
deltohedron | noun (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron. |
diatessaron | noun (n.) The interval of a fourth. |
noun (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament. | |
noun (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines. |
dihedron | noun (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces. |
dodecahedron | noun (n.) A solid having twelve faces. |
duodecahedron | noun (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron. |
ekaboron | noun (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium. |
electron | noun (n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum. |
() One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron. |
elytron | noun (n.) Alt. of Elytrum |
enheahedron | noun (n.) A figure having nine sides; a nonagon. |
entoplastron | noun (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum. |
epiplastron | noun (n.) One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles. |
epoophoron | noun (n.) See Parovarium. |
exametron | noun (n.) An hexameter. |
fanfaron | noun (n.) A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. |
flatiron | noun (n.) An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes. |
fleuron | noun (n.) A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower-shaped part in a necklace. |
garron | noun (n.) Same as Garran. |
goudron | noun (n.) a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. |
gridiron | noun (n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals. |
noun (n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. | |
noun (n.) A football field. |
gyron | noun (n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner. |
handiron | noun (n.) See Andrion. |
hemelytron | noun (n.) Alt. of Hemelytrum |
hemihedron | noun (n.) A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron. |
heptahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure with seven sides. |
hexahedron | noun (n.) A solid body of six sides or faces. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DERON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (dero) - Words That Begins with dero:
derogant | adjective (a.) Derogatory. |
derogating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derogate |
derogate | noun (n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded. |
verb (v. t.) To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law. | |
verb (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing. | |
verb (v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from. | |
verb (v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. |
derogation | noun (n.) The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. |
noun (n.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. |
derogative | adjective (a.) Derogatory. |
derogator | noun (n.) A detractor. |
derogatoriness | noun (n.) Quality of being derogatory. |
derogatory | adjective (a.) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto. |
derotremata | noun (n. pl.) The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (der) - Words That Begins with der:
deracinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deracinate |
deraination | noun (n.) The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. |
deraignment | noun (n.) Alt. of Derainment |
derainment | noun (n.) The act of deraigning. |
noun (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. |
derailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derail |
derailment | noun (n.) The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad. |
deranging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derange |
deranged | adjective (a.) Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Derange |
derangement | noun (n.) The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. |
deranger | noun (n.) One who deranges. |
deray | noun (n.) Disorder; merriment. |
derbio | noun (n.) A large European food fish (Lichia glauca). |
derby | noun (n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780. |
noun (n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown. |
dere | noun (n.) Harm. |
verb (v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure. |
derelict | noun (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. |
noun (n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. | |
adjective (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. | |
adjective (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. |
dereliction | noun (n.) The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. |
noun (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment. | |
noun (n.) The state of being left or abandoned. | |
noun (n.) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. |
dereling | noun (n.) Darling. |
noun (n.) Darling. |
derf | adjective (a.) Strong; powerful; fierce. |
deriding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deride |
derider | noun (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer. |
derision | noun (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. |
noun (n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock. |
derisive | adjective (a.) Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. |
derisory | adjective (a.) Derisive; mocking. |
derivable | adjective (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. |
derival | noun (n.) Derivation. |
derivate | noun (n.) A thing derived; a derivative. |
adjective (a.) Derived; derivative. | |
verb (v. t.) To derive. |
derivation | noun (n.) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. |
noun (n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. | |
noun (n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. | |
noun (n.) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. | |
noun (n.) That from which a thing is derived. | |
noun (n.) That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. | |
noun (n.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. | |
noun (n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. | |
noun (n.) The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word. |
derivational | adjective (a.) Relating to derivation. |
derivative | noun (n.) That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another. |
noun (n.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root. | |
noun (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord. | |
noun (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense). | |
noun (n.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process. | |
noun (n.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. |
deriving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derive |
derivement | noun (n.) That which is derived; deduction; inference. |
deriver | noun (n.) One who derives. |
derk | adjective (a.) Dark. |
derma | noun (n.) See Dermis. |
dermal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin. |
dermaptera | noun (n.) Alt. of Dermapteran |
dermapteran | noun (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran. |
dermatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dermatine |
dermatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the skin. |
dermatitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the skin. |
dermatogen | noun (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition. |
noun (n.) Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition. |
dermatography | noun (n.) An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin. |
dermatoid | adjective (a.) Resembling skin; skinlike. |
dermatologist | noun (n.) One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology. |
dermatology | noun (n.) The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases. |
dermatopathic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure. |
dermatophyte | noun (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin. |
dermestes | noun (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle. |
dermestoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. |
dermic | adjective (a.) Relating to the derm or skin. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DERON:
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. |
decalcification | noun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter. |
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. |
delibration | noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark. |