detumescence
— Noun
– English
~ diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen
detusk
— Verb
– English
~ remove the tusks of animals; "tusk an elephant"
deuce
— Noun
– English
~ the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
deuce
— Noun
– English
~ a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say"
deuce
— Noun
– English
~ a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game
deuce-ace
— Noun
– English
~ the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
deuce
— Noun
– English
~ one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
deuced
— Adjective
– English
~ expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"
deucedly
— Adverb
– English
~ (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
deuteranopia
— Noun
– English
~ dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
deuteranopic
— Adjective
– English
~ inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red
deuterium
— Noun
– English
~ an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)
Deuteromycetes
— Noun
– English
~ form class; coextensive with subdivision Deuteromycota
Deuteromycota
— Noun
– English
~ large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known
Deuteromycotina
— Noun
– English
~ large and heterogeneous form division of fungi comprising forms for which no sexually reproductive stage is known
deuteron
— Noun
– English
~ the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators
deuteronomy
— Noun
– English
~ the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law
deutschland
— Noun
– English
~ a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
deutschmark
— Noun
– English
~ formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
deutzia
— Noun
– English
~ any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters