Detorted (imp. & p. p.) of Detort
Detorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detort
Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
Detortion (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
Detour (n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
Detracted (imp. & p. p.) of Detract
Detracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detract
Detract (v. t.) To take away; to withdraw.
Detract (v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.
Detract (v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
Detracter (n.) One who detracts; a detractor.
Detractingly (adv.) In a detracting manner.
Detraction (n.) A taking away or withdrawing.
Detraction (n.) The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
Detractious (a.) Containing detraction; detractory.
Detractive (a.) Tending to detractor draw.
Detractive (a.) Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
Detractiveness (n.) The quality of being detractive.
Detracor (n.) One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer.
Detractory (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.
Detractress (n.) A female detractor.
Detrain (v. i. & t.) To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Detrect (v. t.) To refuse; to decline.
Detriment (n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
Detriment (n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
Detriment (v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.
Detrimental (a.) Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful.
Detrimentalness (n.) The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.
Detrital (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Detrite (a.) Worn out.
Detrition (n.) A wearing off or away.
Detritus (n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
Detritus (n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
Detruded (imp. & p. p.) of Detrude
Detruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detrude
Detrude (v. t.) To thrust down or out; to push down with force.
Detruncated (imp. & p. p.) of Detuncate
Detruncating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detuncate
Detuncate (v. t.) To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
Detruncation (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Detrusion (n.) The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Dette (n.) Debt.
Detteles (a.) Free from debt.
Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Detur (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
Deturb (v. t.) To throw down.
Deturbate (v. t.) To evict; to remove.
Deturbation (n.) The act of deturbating.
Deturn (v. t.) To turn away.
Deturpate (v. t.) To defile; to disfigure.
Deturpation (n.) A making foul.
Deuce (n.) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
Deuce (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.
Deuce (n.) The devil; a demon.
Deuced (a.) Devilish; excessive; extreme.
Deuse (a.) Alt. of Deused
Deused (a.) See Deuce, Deuced.
Deuterocanonical (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.
Deuterogamist (n.) One who marries the second time.
Deuterogamy (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 (a.) Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Deuteronomist (n.) The writer of Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy (n.) The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.
Deuteropathia (n.) Alt. of Deuteropathy
Deuteropathy (n.) A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.
Deuteropathic (a.) Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.
Deuteroscopy (n.) Second sight.
Deuteroscopy (n.) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.
Deuterozooid (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 (n.) Same as Deutohydroguret.
Deuto- () Alt. of Deut-
Deut- () A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used.
Deutohydroguret (n.) A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.
Deutoplasm (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 (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.
Deutosulphuret (n.) A disulphide.
Deutoxide (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 (n.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.
Dev (n.) Alt. of Deva
Deva (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.
Devanagari (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written.
Devaporation (n.) The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.
Devast (v. t.) To devastate.
Devastated (imp. & p. p.) of Devastate
Devastating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate
Devastate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Devastation (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Devastator (n.) One who, or that which, devastates.
Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
Devata (n.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol.
Deve (a.) Deaf.
Develin (n.) The European swift.
Developed (imp. & p. p.) of Develop
Developing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Develop
Develop (v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
Develop (v. t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.
Develop (v. t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
Develop (v. t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
Develop (v. t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.