English words: desaturation to desethylibogamine

300 English words, part 41 of 118 of the words starting with D, A to Z. 38 have a page of their own.

English words desaturation to desethylibogamine

desaturation noun /diːˌsætʃəˈɹeɪʃən/: the conversion of a saturated compound to an unsaturated one by removing hydrogen or other atoms to form a double bond
desaturator noun: That which desaturates.
Desauli noun: A village deity among the Hos.
desautelsite noun: A trigonal bright orange mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.
desaye noun: Alternative form of desai.
Desbiens proper noun: A surname from French.
Desborough proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Kettering borough (OS grid ref SP8083).
desc noun: Abbreviation of description.
descabello noun: A small sword used by a bullfighter for the final kill in case of a lengthy attempt.
descale verb: To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
descaler noun: That which descales (removes scale from a metal surface or scales from a fish or snake).
descaling noun, verb: The removal of scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
descan verb: To reverse the path of emission from a specimen to the sensor in a microscope scan.
descanso noun /dɛsˈkɑːnsoʊ/: A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
descant noun, verb /ˈdɛskænt/: A lengthy discourse on a subject.
descant recorder noun: Synonym of soprano recorder.
descanter noun: One who descants.
descantist noun: One who plays a descant.
descarga noun: A jam session in the tradition of Cuban music
Descartean adjective: Alternative form of Descartian.
Descartes proper noun /deɪˈkɑːt/: A surname from French
Descartesean adjective: Alternative form of Descartesian.
Descartesian adjective: Synonym of Cartesian.
Descartian adjective: Synonym of Cartesian.
Descemet's membrane noun: The basement membrane that lies between the stroma and the endothelial layer of the cornea.
descemetitis noun: inflammation of the Descemet's membrane
descemetocele noun: A kind of ulcer that extends through the stroma in the eye, exposing Descemet's membrane.
descend noun, verb /dɪˈsɛnd/: To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
descend into the arena verb: In relation to a judge in an adversarial system, to excessively interfere with debates between the parties.
descend on verb: Synonym of descend upon.
descend upon verb: To make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
descendable adjective: Alternative spelling of descendible.
descendance noun: The property of being a descendant; descent.
descendancy noun: The quality or condition of being a descendant.
descendant adjective, noun /dɪˈsɛndənt/: Descending; going down.
descendantless adjective: Not having any descendants; without any progeny.
descendence noun: The act of descending; descent.
descendency noun: The property of descendence.
descendent adjective: Alternative spelling of descendant.
descendental adjective: Relating to descendants.
descendentalism noun: A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.
descendentalist noun: A believer in descendentalism.
descender noun /dɪˈsɛndə(ɹ)/: A person or thing that descends.
descendeur noun /deɪsɒnˈdɜː(ɹ)/: A piece of metal around which a rope is passed in order to slow descent when abseiling
descendibility noun: The characteristic of being descendible; inheritability by an heir.
descendible adjective: Of property: able to pass by descent; inheritable by heirs.
descendin noun: An uncharacterised testes secreted peptide hormone that controls testicular descent in mammals.
descending adjective, noun, verb /dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ/: Moving or sloping downwards.
descending chain condition noun: A property of a partially ordered set that states that any decreasing sequence of elements must eventually become constant.
descending colon noun: A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon.
descending node noun: The point in an orbit at which a body passes the ecliptic plane going south.
descending palatine artery noun: A branch of the maxillary artery that supplies blood to the hard and soft palate of the mouth.
descending perineum syndrome noun: A condition where the perineum "balloons" several centimeters below the bony outlet of the pelvis, typically during strain.
descending s noun: Synonym of long s.
descendingly adverb: In a descending manner or order.
descendostomy noun: An operation involving the formation of an artificial opening from the descending colon through the abdominal wall.
descension noun /dɪˈsɛnʃən/: Descent; the act of descending.
descensional adjective: Relating to descension.
descensive adjective: Tending to descend or move downward; descending.
descensory noun: A vessel used in alchemy to extract and filter oils.
descent noun /dɪˈsɛnt/: An instance of descending; act of coming down.
descent group noun: A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, whether real or fictitious, whether traceable through linear genealogies or untraceable; a clan or...
descent vehicle noun: A means of transportation able to carry people or cargo from outer space to the surface of a planet or a moon.
descepter verb: To deprive of a scepter; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.
desceptre verb: Alternative form of descepter.
descetyllanatoside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
Deschanel proper noun: A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
deschedule verb: To remove from a schedule.
deschool verb: To remove the schools from; to divest (a society) of its formal education system.
deschooler noun: A practitioner of deschooling.
deschooling noun: The process of adjusting to the non-school environment of everyday life after leaving the education system.
Deschutes proper noun: A river in Washington, United States; in full, Deschutes River.
desciclovir noun: A particular antiviral drug.
desclerotization noun: The removal of sclerotin from a sclerotized structure
descloizite noun: A rare orthorhombic mineral consisting of basic lead and zinc vanadate, isomorphous with olivenite.
descope verb: To reduce the scope of; to revise objectives downward, sometimes in the context of a funding shortfall.
descramble verb: To decode or unscramble a coded signal
descrambler noun: Something that descrambles; a device for decoding a scrambled signal.
descreen verb: To remove Moiré-pattern artifacts when scanning half-tone printed images.
descreened adjective, verb: modified by descreening
descrescendo noun: Alternative form of decrescendo.
descriable adjective: Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
descrial noun: The act of descrying.
describability noun /dɪˌskɹaɪbəˈbɪlɪti/: The quality of being describable.
describable adjective /dɪˈskɹaɪbəbl̩/: Capable of being described.
describableness noun: The quality of being describable.
describe verb /dɪˈskɹaɪb/: To represent in words.
described audio noun: Synonym of described video.
described video noun: A video recording that includes an audio track designed for a visually impaired audience that describes the visual elements of a film, which can also...
describee noun: One who is described; the subject of a description.
describent noun: A generatrix.
describer noun: A person who describes.
descrier noun: A person who descries.
descrip. noun: Abbreviation of description.
description noun /dɪˈskɹɪpʃən/: A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
description language noun: A formal language used to specify, model, or describe the structure, behavior or attributes of systems, components, or interfaces.
description logic noun: One of a family of knowledge representation languages which can be used to represent the concept definitions of an application domain (known as...
description word noun: An adjective.
descriptional adjective: Of, pertaining to, or using description.
descriptionalism noun: The theory that mental imagery is not visual, but based on language-like descriptions.
descriptionalist noun: One who subscribes to descriptionalism.
descriptionally adverb: In terms of description.
descriptionism noun: The definition of truth as a description of observed reality.
descriptionist adjective, noun /dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/: Synonym of descriptivist.
descriptionistic adjective: Synonym of descriptionist.
descriptionless adjective: Without a description.
descriptive adjective, noun /dɪˈskɹɪptɪv/: Of, relating to, or providing a description.
descriptive adjective noun: An adjective that describes a noun.
descriptive ethics noun: The study of people's beliefs about morality, in contrast to normative ethics and metaethics.
descriptive geometry noun: A graphical protocol which creates three-dimensional virtual space on a two-dimensional plane.
descriptive statistics noun: A branch of statistics dealing with summarization and description of collections of data–data sets, including the concepts of arithmetic mean, median, mode,...
descriptively adverb /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvli/: In a descriptive manner.
descriptiveness noun /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvnəs/: The characteristic of being descriptive.
descriptivism noun: The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms, of linguistic usage.
descriptivist adjective, noun /dɪˈskɹɪptɪvɪst/: Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
descriptivistic adjective: Of a descriptivist; of or relating to descriptivism.
descriptivity noun /dɪˌskɹɪpˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/: The quality or state of being descriptive.
descriptor noun /dɪˈskɹɪp.tə/: A name associated with certain data or documents in an information storage and retrieval system; an index term.
descriptory adjective: descriptive; serving to describe something
descriptum noun: That which is described; the subject of a description.
descrive verb /dɪˈskɹaɪv/: To describe.
descry verb /dɪˈskɹaɪ/: To announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
descum noun, verb: To remove the scum from.
descurainolide noun: A macrolide lactone derived from lignin
descurainoside noun: A thioglycoside present in Descurainia sophia
Desdemona proper noun /ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə/: Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, noted for being a victim of jealousy.
Desdemonan adjective /dɛzdəˈmoʊnən/: Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Desdemona.
Desdemonean adjective /dɛzdəˈmoʊniən/: Alternative form of Desdemonan.
Desdemonian adjective /dɛzdəˈmoʊniən/: Alternative form of Desdemonan.
dese determiner, pronoun /diːz/: these
Deseado proper noun: A department in Santa Cruz province, Argentina. Capital: Puerto Deseado.
deseal verb: to remove sealant.
deseam verb: To remove the seams from (metal).
deseasonalisation noun: Alternative form of deseasonalization.
deseasonalization noun: The process or result of deseasonalizing.
deseasonalize verb: To offset (data) to reverse the process of seasonalization.
deseat verb: Synonym of unseat.
desecate verb: To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
desecrate adjective, verb /ˈdɛs.ɪ.kɹeɪ̯t/: To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
desecrated adjective, verb: Having been desecrated or violated.
desecrater noun: Alternative spelling of desecrator.
desecration noun /dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/: An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.
desecrator noun: A person who profanes or violates the sacredness or sanctity of something.
desecularisation noun: Alternative spelling of desecularization.
desecularization noun: The process of desecularizing.
desecularize verb: To make no longer secular; to bring into the sphere of religion.
deseed verb: To remove seed or seeds from.
deseeder noun: A device for removing seeds.
desegmentation noun: The loss or obliteration of division into segments.
desegregate verb /diːˈsɛɡɹəɡeɪt/: To end the segregation of (something).
desegregation noun: The act or process of eliminating segregation.
desegregationist noun: A supporter of desegregation.
deselect verb /ˌdiːsəˈlɛkt/: To not select; to rule out of selection.
deselectable adjective: Capable of being deselected.
deselection noun: The process or act of deselecting.
deselector noun: A factor that tends to exclude something from being selected.
deselenation noun: The removal of selenium from a compound
deselenization noun: The removal of selenium from a compound, typically in order to synthesize a different one
deselenized adjective: From which selenium has been removed
desemanticisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemanticization.
desemanticise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemanticize.
desemanticization noun: The loss or removal of all or part of the original semantic content (meaning) of a word or morpheme, sometimes (but not always) as part of grammaticalization.
desemanticize verb: To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.
desemantisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemantization.
desemantise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemantize.
desemantization noun: Synonym of desemanticization.
desemantize verb: To remove semantic content from; to desemanticize.
desemer noun: A kind of ancient balance or steelyard.
desensationalize verb: To cause to cease to be sensational; to make acceptable or commonplace.
desensibilize verb: To desensitize.
desensitisation noun: The act or process of desensitising, of dulling or reducing sensation.
desensitise verb: Alternative spelling of desensitize.
desensitiser noun: Alternative spelling of desensitizer.
desensitizable adjective: Able to be desensitized
desensitization noun: The act or process of desensitizing, of reducing or eliminating sensitivity.
desensitize verb /diːˈsɛnsɪtaɪz/: To render (someone) emotionally or sensationally less responsive or irresponsive, as by long or repeated exposure to something.
desensitized adjective, verb: Not sensitized
desensitizer noun: Anything that desensitizes.
desequestrate verb: To release from sequestration
desequestration noun: The action, or the result of desequestrating
Deseret proper noun /dɛz.əˈɹɛt/: A state, proposed in 1849 and never recognized, which would have included most of Utah and Nevada and parts of other states.
deserialisation noun: UK spelling of deserialization.
deserialise verb: Alternative spelling of deserialize.
deserialization noun: The act or process of deserializing.
deserialize verb /diːˈsɪəɹɪəlaɪz/: To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
deserializer noun: An electronic device that takes the serial output of a serializer and converts it back to parallel.
deserosalization noun: The (normally accidental) removal of serosa from an internal cavity
deserpidine noun: An antihypertensive drug related to reserpine.
desert adjective, noun, verb /ˈdɛz.ət/: A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
desert apricot noun: A tree/shrub, Prunus fremontii, and its fruit. It grows in very hot places in California and Mexico.
desert bean noun: A wild plant of species Phaseolus filiformis, with edible beans, native to arid regions in northern Mexico and the southwestern US.
desert bloom noun: A rare climatic phenomenon where normally barren, arid environments erupt with a vibrant display of wildflowers, usually following an unusually heavy rainfall.
desert blue noun: Synonym of inland hairstreak.
desert boot noun: A type of laced ankle-high boots made of soft suede with a crepe sole
desert candle noun: A foxtail lily (Eremurus gen. et spp.)
desert cardinal noun: Synonym of pyrrhuloxia.
desert cat noun: Felis silvestris lybica, a subspecies of the wildcat (Felis silvestris).
desert chicory noun: Rafinesquia neomexicana
desert cooler noun: Synonym of evaporative cooler.
desert cottontail noun: A common species of cottontail rabbit native to the southwestern United States as well as northern and central Mexico, extending northward into Montana,...
desert dandelion noun: Flowering plants of genus Malacothrix.
desert date noun: Balanites aegyptiaca, a tree native to Africa and the Middle East.
desert dolly noun: A wheeled platform for moving heavy lamps over difficult terrain.
Desert Father noun: Any of the early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD, and were a...
desert fox noun: The fennec.
desert fruit cake noun: An edible cake or bar created by pounding together seeds, nuts, berries, insects (crickets, katydids, or ants), meat or starchy roots, eaten by Amerindians,...
desert glue noun: A glue-like crust formed by cyanobacteria on desert sand.
desert hare noun: American desert hare, Lepus californicus, the black-tailed jackrabbit.
desert holly noun: Atriplex hymenelytra.
desert ironwood noun: The perennial flowering tree Olneya tesota.
desert island noun /ˈdɛz.ɚt.aɪlənd/: A deserted island, an uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics and (now frequently misunderstood as) a small and almost entirely sandy desert.
desert kit fox noun: Synonym of kit fox.
desert kite noun: A funnel trap constructed of stone and found in Middle Eastern deserts, intended to trap migrating game animals.
desert lark noun: A bird of species Ammomanes deserti that breeds in deserts and semi-deserts from Morocco to western India.
desert lavender noun: A fragrant shrub with bluish flowers, Hyptis emoryi or Condea emoryi, native to the deserts of southwestern North America.
desert lily noun: A urinal improvised from a tin can (metal container).
desert locust noun: Schistocerca gregaria, a species of bird grasshopper from Africa known to cause large swarms and bring famines from eating crops.
desert lynx noun: The caracal.
desert marigold noun: Any of the genus Baileya of typically annual flowering plants in the aster family Asteraceae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico.
desert mistletoe noun: Synonym of mesquite mistletoe
desert mole rat noun: Synonym of naked mole rat.
desert monitor noun: A species of carnivorous monitor lizard, Varanus griseus, found throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia.
desert mouse noun: Pseudomys desertor, a murid found only in Australia.
desert oak noun: Various oaks found in desert regions.
desert onion noun: Allium macropetalum, a species of wild onion.
desert pavement noun: A desert surface that is covered with closely packed rock fragments; reg, serir.
desert pea noun: an Australian plant in the genus Swainsona, distinctive for its blood red leaf-like flowers
desert peach noun: Prunus andersonii, a shrub in the rose family.
desert pear noun: prickly pear
desert physa noun: Physella boucardi (or Physa boucardi), a freshwater snail endemic to the southwestern United States.
desert raisin noun: kutjera
desert rat noun: A gerbil (subfamily Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia
desert rheumatism noun: coccidioidomycosis
desert rock noun: The music of the Palm Desert Scene, a Californian style of hard rock.
desert rose noun /dɪˈzɜːt ɹəʊz/: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see desert, rose.
desert rue noun: Any of various plants of the genus Thamnosma.
desert sand adjective, noun: A very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow (orange or brown) colour that resembles the color of sand in a desert
desert soil noun: A soil variety typically found in arid climates, usually with little leaching and minimal humus content. Referred to as an "aridisol" in the nomenclature of...
desert sore noun: Synonym of veldt sore.
desert sparrow noun: Passer simplex, a passerid of the Sahara desert.
Desert Storm syndrome noun: Gulf War syndrome
desert tea noun: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea
desert the diet verb: To abandon criminal proceedings under a particular libel.
desert-thorn noun: Any desert-growing member of the genus Lycium
desert tomato noun: Lycium andersonii, a thorny shrub of the nightshade family with edible fruit, native to southwestern North America.
desert tortoise noun: either of two species of tortoise native to the deserts of the southwest United States and northwestern Mexico, Gopherus agassizii and Gopherus morafkai
desert truffle noun: Any of various truffles of the family Terfeziaceae.
desert varnish noun: Synonym of rock varnish.
desert whale noun: gray whale
desert wheatear noun: Oenanthe deserti, an Old World flycatcher native to Asia and northern Africa
desert willow noun: Any of several species of willow that grow in desert regions
Desertas wolf spider noun: A wolf spider, of species Hogna ingens, from the Desertas Islands
deserted adjective, verb /dɪˈzɜː(ɹ)tɪd/: Abandoned, without people.
desertedness noun: The state or quality of being deserted.
deserter noun /dɪˈzɜːtə(ɹ)/: A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
desertful adjective, noun /ˈdɛz.əɹt.fʊl/: deserving; meritorious
desertian adjective: Desertic; pertaining to a desert.
desertic adjective: Of or pertaining to a desert or deserts.
deserticole noun: A desert-dweller; one who is deserticolous.
deserticolous adjective: Living in a desert.
desertification noun /dɪˌzɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/: The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.
desertified adjective, verb: Turned into a desert
desertify verb: To become desert.
desertin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of deserting.
desertion noun /dɪˈzɜːʃən/: The act of deserting.
desertisation noun: Alternative spelling of desertization.
desertization noun: Synonym of desertification.
desertland noun: Land that is or resembles a desert.
desertless adjective: Undeserving.
desertlessly adverb: Undeservedly.
desertlike adjective: Resembling a desert
desertness noun: The condition of being deserted.
desertology noun /ˌdɛzə(ɹ)ˈtɒləd͡ʒi/: The study of deserts and related phenomena.
desertomycin noun: Any of a class of macrocyclic lactone antibiotics isolated from Streptomyces
desertophile noun: One who loves deserts.
desertress noun: A female deserter.
desertrice noun: A female deserter.
desertrix noun: Alternative form of desertrice.
desertrue noun: Alternative form of desert rue.
desertscape noun: A desert landscape.
desertward adverb: Toward a desert.
desertwards adverb: Towards a desert.
desertworthy adjective: Able to thrive or survive in a desert environment.
deserty adjective: Resembling a desert or some aspect of it.
deservant adjective: Deserving; worthy (of either good or bad)
deserve verb /dɪˈzɜːv/: To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
deserved adjective, verb /dɪˈzɜːvd/: Fair; merited.
deservedly adverb /dɪˈzɜːvɪdli/: In a way or to a degree that is deserved or merited.
deservedness noun: The state or quality of being deserved.
deserveless adjective: Undeserving.
deserver noun: Someone who deserves.
deserving adjective, noun, verb /dɪˈzɝvɪŋ/: Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.
deserving poor noun: Poor people who are incapable of providing for themselves and thus seen as legitimate recipients of charity.
deservingly adverb: In a deserving manner.
deservingness noun: The state or quality of being deserving.
desethyl adjective: From which one or more ethyl groups have been removed
desethylamiodarone noun: A metabolite related to amiodarone by removal of one or more ethyl groups
desethylation noun: The removal of one or more ethyl groups
desethylchloroquine noun: A chemical derived from chloroquine by the removal of one ethyl group, produced in the human body from chloroquine.
desethylibogamine noun: A chemical compound, a 4-desethyl analogue of ibogamine, that is the parent structure of iboga-type alkaloids such as ibogaine and ibogamine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under D: 35,212 words, in 118 parts.