Name Report For First Name DIEN:

DIEN

First name DIEN's origin is Vietnamese. DIEN means "farm, farming". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DIEN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dien.(Brown names are of the same origin (Vietnamese) with DIEN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with DIEN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming DIEN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DİEN AS A WHOLE:

kadience kadienne kaydience

NAMES RHYMING WITH DİEN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ien) - Names That Ends with ien:

hien tien essien nascien nisien bastien jurrien chien nien vien vivien adrien brien cretien damien darien dorien efnisien fabien julien jullien junien lucien o'brien sebastien urien christien lien donatien paien

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (en) - Names That Ends with en:

cwen guendolen raven coleen helen huyen quyen tuyen yen aren mekonnen shaheen yameen kadeen arden kailoken bingen evnissyen lairgnen yspaddaden hoben christiansen jorgen joren espen adeben akhenaten amen aten moswen braden heikkinen mustanen seppanen valkoinen soren vaden camden fagen girven jurgen evzen hymen owen kelemen sebestyen kalen joben sen eugen nguyen addisen adeen aideen aileen alberteen aleen ambreen anwen ardeen arleen arwen ashleen ashlen ashten augusteen belen berneen brishen bronwen

NAMES RHYMING WITH DİEN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (die) - Names That Begins with die:

diederich diedre diedrick diega diego diep diera dierck dierdre dieter dietrich dietz

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (di) - Names That Begins with di:

dia diahann diahna diamanda diamanta diamante diamon diamond diamonique diamont diamontina dian diana dianda diandra diandre diane dianna diannah dianne diantha dianthe diara diarmaid dibe dice dichali dick dickran dickson didier dido didrika digna diji dike dikesone dikran dilan dillan dillen dillin dillion dillon dimitrie dimitry dimitur din dina dinadan dinah dinar dinas dino dinora dinorah dinsmore diogo diolmhain diomasach diomedes dion diona diondra diondray diondre dione dionis dionisa dionna dionne dionte dionysia dionysie dionysius dior diorbhall dirce dirck dirk dita diti diu div diva divon divone divsha

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DİEN:

First 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 damon dan danathon daniel-sean dann dannon danon danton danylynn daran dareen daren darin darleen darolyn daron darrellyn darren darrin darron 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 deacon deagan deaglan deakin dean deann dearborn deasmumhan deavon declan deeann deegan deen dehaan deikun delbin delman delmon delron delsin delton delvin

English Words Rhyming DIEN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DİEN AS A WHOLE:

aguardientenoun (n.) A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
 noun (n.) A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque.

audienceadjective (a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
 adjective (a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
 adjective (a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.

audientnoun (n.) A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.
 adjective (a.) Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls.

comediennenoun (n.) A women who plays in comedy.

clairaudiencenoun (n.) Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

clairaudientnoun (n.) One alleged to have the power of clairaudience.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.

diencephalonnoun (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.

disobediencenoun (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

disobediencynoun (n.) Disobedience.

disobedientadjective (a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts.
 adjective (a.) Not yielding.

effodientadjective (a.) Digging up.

expediencenoun (n.) Alt. of Expediency

expediencynoun (n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
 noun (n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
 noun (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

expedientnoun (n.) That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
 noun (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.
 adjective (a.) Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.
 adjective (a.) Quick; expeditious.

fodientnoun (n.) One of the Fodientia.
 adjective (a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.

fodientianoun (n.pl.) A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.

gradientnoun (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
 noun (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
 noun (n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
 adjective (a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
 adjective (a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
 adjective (a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

inexpediencenoun (n.) Alt. of Inexpediency

inexpediencynoun (n.) The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures.

inexpedientadjective (a.) Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another.

ingrediencenoun (n.) Alt. of Ingrediency

ingrediencynoun (n.) Entrance; ingress.
 noun (n.) The quality or state of being an ingredient or component part.

ingredientnoun (n.) That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.
 adjective (a.) Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part.

inobediencenoun (n.) Disobedience.

inobedientadjective (a.) Not obedient; disobedient.

misobediencenoun (n.) Mistaken obedience; disobedience.

nonobediencenoun (n.) Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

obediencenoun (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
 noun (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
 noun (n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
 noun (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
 noun (n.) One of the three monastic vows.
 noun (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.

obedienciarynoun (n.) One yielding obedience.

obedientadjective (a.) Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.

obedientialadjective (a.) According to the rule of obedience.

preaudiencenoun (n.) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.

redientadjective (a.) Returning.

regrediencenoun (n.) A going back; a retrogression; a return.

tragediennenoun (n.) A woman who plays in tragedy.

transaudientadjective (a.) Permitting the passage of sound.

unaudiencedadjective (a.) Not given an audience; not received or heard.

unexpedientadjective (a.) Inexpedient.

unobediencenoun (n.) Disobedience.

unobedientadjective (a.) Disobedient.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DİEN (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ien) - English Words That Ends with ien:


aliennoun (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
 noun (n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
 adjective (a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
 adjective (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
 verb (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

bonchretiennoun (n.) A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

hsiennoun (n.) An administrative subdivision of a fu, or department, or of an independent chow; also, the seat of government of such a district.

liennoun (n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.
  () of Lie
  (obs. p. p.) of Lie. See Lain.
  () A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

miennoun (n.) Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

nigromanciennoun (n.) A necromancer.

paiennoun (n. & a.) Pagan.

parnassiennoun (n.) Same as Parnassian.

transfiguratiennoun (n.) A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.
 noun (n.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

vergaliennoun (n.) Alt. of Vergaloo

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DİEN (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (die) - Words That Begins with die:


dieresisnoun (n.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis.
 noun (n.) A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial.
 noun (n.) Same as Diaeresis.

dienoun (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
 noun (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
 noun (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
 noun (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
 noun (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
 noun (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
 noun (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
 verb (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
 verb (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
 verb (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
 verb (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
 verb (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
 verb (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
 verb (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
 verb (v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  (pl. ) of Dice

diecianadjective (a.) Alt. of Diecious

dieciousadjective (a.) See Dioecian, and Dioecious.

diedraladjective (a.) The same as Dihedral.

diegesisnoun (n.) A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

dielectricnoun (n.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.

dielytranoun (n.) See Dicentra.

diesinkernoun (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

diesinkingnoun (n.) The process of engraving dies.

diesisnoun (n.) A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.
 noun (n.) The mark /; -- called also double dagger.

diestocknoun (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

dietnoun (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
 noun (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
 noun (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
 noun (n.) Any of various national or local assemblies;
 noun (n.) Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc.
 noun (n.) The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary.
 noun (n.) The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.
 noun (n.) The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.
 noun (n.) The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66).
 noun (n.) In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).
 verb (v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
 verb (v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
 verb (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

dietingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diet

dietariannoun (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

dietarynoun (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

dieternoun (n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

dieteticadjective (a.) Alt. of Dietetical

dieteticaladjective (a.) Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

dieteticsnoun (n.) That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet.

dietetistnoun (n.) A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.

diethylaminenoun (n.) A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

dieticadjective (a.) Dietetic.

dieticaladjective (a.) Dietetic.

dietinenoun (n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

dietistnoun (n.) Alt. of Dietitian

dietitiannoun (n.) One skilled in dietetics.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DİEN:

English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':

daciannoun (n.) A native of ancient Dacia.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.

daedalianadjective (a.) Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.
 adjective (a.) Crafty; deceitful.

daemonadjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic

dagonnoun (n.) A slip or piece.
  () The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.

dagswainnoun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

daguerreanadjective (a.) Alt. of Daguerreian

daguerreianadjective (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

dahlinnoun (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

dairymannoun (n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

dairywomannoun (n.) A woman who attends to a dairy.

dalesmannoun (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.

dalmatianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.

daltoniannoun (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.

damannoun (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

damaskinnoun (n.) A sword of Damask steel.

damassinnoun (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.

damnationnoun (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
 noun (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
 noun (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.

damnificationnoun (n.) That which causes damage or loss.

damsonnoun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

dannoun (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
 noun (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

dandelionnoun (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.

danteanadjective (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

danubianadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.

daphnetinnoun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.

daphninnoun (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.
 noun (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.

dardaniannoun (a. & n.) Trojan.

darkenadjective (a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
 adjective (a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision.
 adjective (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
 adjective (a.) To cast a gloom upon.
 adjective (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
 verb (v. i.) To grow or darker.

darnnoun (n.) A place mended by darning.
 verb (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
 verb (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

darreinadjective (a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.

darwiniannoun (n.) An advocate of Darwinism.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.

datiscinnoun (n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

daunnoun (n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor.

dauphinnoun (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

dawnnoun (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
 noun (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
 verb (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
 verb (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

daysmannoun (n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

daywomannoun (n.) A dairymaid.

deaconnoun (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.

deadbornadjective (a.) Stillborn.

deadenadjective (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
 adjective (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
 adjective (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
 adjective (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
 verb (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

dealbationnoun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.

deambulationnoun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading.

deannoun (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
 noun (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
 noun (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
 noun (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
 noun (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

dearbornnoun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

dearnadjective (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
 verb (v. t.) Same as Darn.

deathsmannoun (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

deaurationnoun (n.) Act of gilding.

debacchationnoun (n.) Wild raving or debauchery.

debarkationnoun (n.) Disembarkation.

debellationnoun (n.) The act of conquering or subduing.

debilitationnoun (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

debituminizationnoun (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen.

debulitionnoun (n.) A bubbling or boiling over.

decachordonnoun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
 noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

decagonnoun (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.

decagynianadjective (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous

decahedronnoun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

decalcificationnoun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter.

decameronnoun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

decandrianadjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous

decantationnoun (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

decapitationnoun (n.) The act of beheading; beheading.

decarbonizationnoun (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

decarburizationnoun (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing.

decentralizationnoun (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.

deceptionnoun (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.

decerptionnoun (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping.
 noun (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.

decertationnoun (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

decessionnoun (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.

decillionnoun (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.]

decimationnoun (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.

decisionnoun (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.

declamationnoun (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.

declarationnoun (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.

declensionnoun (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.

declinationnoun (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.

decoctionnoun (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.

decollationnoun (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.

decolorationnoun (n.) The removal or absence of color.

decompositionnoun (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.

deconcentrationnoun (n.) Act of deconcentrating.

decorationnoun (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.

decorticationnoun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

decreationnoun (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation.

decrepitationnoun (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

decretionnoun (n.) A decrease.

decrustationnoun (n.) The removal of a crust.

decubationnoun (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence.

decumanadjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

decurionnoun (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

decursionnoun (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.

decurtationnoun (n.) Act of cutting short.

decussationnoun (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.

dedalianadjective (a.) See Daedalian.

dedecorationnoun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor.

dedentitionnoun (n.) The shedding of teeth.

dedicationnoun (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.

deditionnoun (n.) The act of yielding; surrender.

deductionnoun (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.

deduplicationnoun (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.

deerskinnoun (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.