devil-may-care
— Adjective
– English
～ cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
devil-may-care
— Adjective
– English
～ marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore
Doris May Lessing
— Noun
– English
～ English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)
desperate measure
— Noun
– English
～ desperate actions taken as a means to an end; "he had to resort to desperate measures"
defensive measure
— Noun
– English
～ (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; "they died in the defense of Stalingrad"; "they were developed for the defense program"
dry measure
— Noun
– English
～ a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain)
dark meat
— Noun
– English
～ the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food
defense mechanism
— Noun
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～ (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
defence mechanism
— Noun
– English
～ (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Distinguished Conduct Medal
— Noun
– English
～ a British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field
dental medicine
— Noun
– English
～ the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth
Dracunculus medinensis
— Noun
– English
～ parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
dispersing medium
— Noun
– English
～ (of colloids) a substance in which another is colloidally dispersed
dispersion medium
— Noun
– English
～ (of colloids) a substance in which another is colloidally dispersed
Drosophila melanogaster
— Noun
– English
～ small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
diabetes mellitus
— Noun
– English
～ diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'"
dead-men's-fingers
— Noun
– English
～ the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
— Noun
– English
～ Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
Dmitri Mendeleev
— Noun
– English
～ Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)