Words in english starting with D

• deferentially — Adverb – English ～ in a respectfully deferential manner; "he listened deferentially"
• deferentially — Adverb – English ～ in a servile manner; "he always acts so deferentially around his supervisor"
• deferment — Noun – English ～ act of putting off to a future time
• deferral — Noun – English ～ act of putting off to a future time
• deferral — Noun – English ～ a state of abeyance or suspended business
• defervesce — Verb – English ～ experience an abatement of a fever
• defervescence — Noun – English ～ abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature
• defervescent — Adjective – English ～ of or relating to the reduction of a fever
• defiance — Noun – English ～ intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
• defiance — Noun – English ～ a defiant act
• defiance — Noun – English ～ a hostile challenge
• defiant — Adjective – English ～ boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"
• defiantly — Adverb – English ～ in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words rebelliously"
• defibrillate — Verb – English ～ stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks; "The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life"
• defibrillation — Noun – English ～ treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)
• defibrillator — Noun – English ～ an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation
• defibrinate — Verb – English ～ remove fibrin from (blood)
• deficiency — Noun – English ～ lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
• deficiency — Noun – English ～ the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
• deficient — Adjective – English ～ falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

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