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| dastard | a base coward | |
| dauntless | fearless | |
| dearth | scarcity (of something customary or needed) | |
| debonair | having gentle and courteous bearing | |
| Decameron | volume of ten books or parts | |
| decamp | to leave suddenly | |
| deciduous | falling off at maturity | |
| declamation | a speech from memory | |
| declamatory | formal style utterance | |
| decorous | suitable for the occasion | |
| defalcate | to cut off or take away part of something | |
| defray | to make payment for | |
| deign | to deem worthy of notice | |
| deleterious | hurtful, morally or physically | |
| deliquesce | 1. to dissolve gradually. 2. to become liquid by absorption of moister from the air | (revised) |
| demulcent | an application soothing to an irritated surface | |
| demurrage | the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing | |
| dendroid | like a tree | |
| dendrology | the natural history of trees | |
| denizen | inhabitant | |
| denominator | bottom of the fraction | |
| denouement | the part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up | |
| dentifrice | something prepared for cleaning the teeth | |
| denude | to strip the covering from | |
| deplore | to regard with grief or sorrow | |
| deponent | laying down | |
| deportment | demeanor | |
| deposition | testimony from interrogations in writing for use in court | |
| deprecate | to express disapproval or regret, with hope for the opposite | |
| derrick | an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights | |
| descendent | proceeding down (not to be confused with descendant) | |
| descry | to discern | |
| desiccant | remedy for drying up moisture from wounds | |
| desperado | one without regard for law or life | |
| despond | to lose spirit, courage or hope | |
| despot | an irresponsible monarch | |
| desultory | not connected with what came before | |
| detrude | to push down forcibly | |
| devilry | malicious mischief | |
| dexterity | precision, efficiency and ease in a physical or mechanical activity | |
| diacritical | marking a difference | |
| dialectician | a logician | |
| diaphanous | transparent | |
| diatomic | containing only 2 atoms | |
| diatribe | a bitter or malicious criticism | |
| dictum | a positive utterance | |
| differentia | that difference in a species which differentiates it from others | |
| diffidence | self-distrust | |
| diffident | affected or possessed with self-distrust | |
| digraph | two characters making a distinct sound ('sh' or 'ea') | |
| dilatory | tending to cause delay | |
| dilettante | (adj. or noun) a superficial amateur (a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way) | |
| diminution | reduction | |
| diplomatist | one with tactful and shrewd management skills | |
| disavow | to disclaim responsibility for | |
| discomfit | to put to confusion | |
| disconsolate | grief-stricken | |
| discountenance | to look upon with disfavor | |
| discrepant | oposite | |
| discursive | passing from one subject to another | |
| dishabille | undress or negligent attire | |
| disparage | to regard or speak of slightingly | |
| disparity | inequality | |
| disreputable | (also, disrepute) dishonorable or disgraceful | |
| dissentient | one who disagrees | |
| dissolute | lewd | |
| dissonance | discord (dissonant: harsh or disagreeable sound) | |
| distemper | a disease or malady | |
| distend | to stretch out or expand in every direction | |
| distensible | capable of being distended | |
| distention | expansion | |
| distrain | to subject one to distress | |
| disyllable | a word with two syllables | |
| diurnal | daily | |
| divagation | digression | |
| doleful | (also: dolesome) melancholy | |
| dolor | lamantation | |
| dolorous | expressing or causing sorrow or pain | |
| domicile | the place where one lives | |
| dowry | the property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage | |
| drachma | a modern and ancient Greek coin | |
| dragoon | (in the British army) a cavalryman | |
| dramatist | one who writes plays | |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (as into wire or a thread) | |
| dun | to make a demand or repeated demands on for payment | |
| durance | confinement | |
| duteous | showing submission to natural superiors | |
| dyne | a measurement of force (which when applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second would move it 1 cm) |
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