English words: desynapsis to detoxification unit
300 English words, part 45 of 118 of the words starting with D, A to Z. 62 have a page of their own.
English words desynapsis to detoxification unit
- desynapsis noun: The separation of homologous chromosomes in the diplotene period of meiotic prophase
- desynaptic adjective: Relating to desynapsis.
- desync noun, verb: Clipping of desynchronize.
- desynch noun, verb: Alternative form of desync.
- desynchronicity noun: asynchronicity
- desynchronisable adjective: Able to be desynchronised.
- desynchronisation noun: Alternative form of desynchronization.
- desynchronise verb: Alternative form of desynchronize.
- desynchronised adjective, verb: Alternative spelling of desynchronized.
- desynchronization noun /diːˌsɪnkɹənɪˈzeɪʃən/: A loss of synchronization of brain waves.
- desynchronize verb: to cause, or to experience desynchronization
- desynchronized adjective, verb: That is no longer synchronized
- desynchronizer noun: A device used in desynchronization
- desynchronizing adjective, verb: That causes desynchronization
- desynchronosis noun: Jet lag.
- desynchronotic adjective: Exhibiting or relating to desynchronosis, or jet lag.
- desynchronous adjective: Lacking synchrony
- desynchrony noun: Any condition (such as jet lag) that results from a sudden change in an individual's established pattern of living
- desynonymization noun: The act of desynonymizing.
- desynonymize verb: To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.
- desynonymy noun: desynonymization
- desysop verb /diːˈsɪsɔp/: To revoke the sysop (administrator) privileges of.
- det adjective, noun: Abbreviation of determiner.
- Det Con noun: Abbreviation of detective constable.
- detaboo verb: to remove the taboo associated with a topic
- detach verb /dɪˈtæt͡ʃ/: To take apart from; to take off.
- detachability noun: The quality or degree of being detachable.
- detachable adjective, noun /dəˈtætʃəbl̩/: Designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage.
- detachableness noun: The state or quality of being detachable.
- detachably adverb: In such a way that it can be detached.
- detached adjective, verb /dɪˈtæt͡ʃt/: Not physically attached; separated from something to which it could connect.
- detached from reality adjective: oblivious to the world
- detached garage noun: A residential garage that is not attached to the house it goes with, but exists as a separate building.
- detached house noun: A free-standing, single-family dwelling unit that does not share a common wall with any other structure.
- detached work noun: A form of youth work that engages with vulnerable young people on their own territory, such as streets, parks, and pubs.
- detachedly adverb /dɪˈtæt͡ʃɪdli/: In a detached manner.
- detachedness noun: The state or quality of being detached.
- detacher noun: One who or that which detaches.
- detachment noun /dɪˈtæt͡ʃmənt/: The action of detaching; separation.
- detack verb: To remove the tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) from a horse.
- detackification noun: The process of detackifying.
- detackifier noun: A substance added to something in order to reduce its tackiness.
- detackify verb: To make (a material) less tacky in texture.
- detag verb: To strip of a tag or tags; to remove the tags from.
- detail noun, verb /ˈdiː.teɪl/: A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- detail man noun: Alternative form of detailman.
- detailed adjective, verb /dɪˈteɪld/: Characterized by attention to detail and thoroughness of treatment.
- detailed balance noun: a Markov process is said to show detailed balance if the transition rates between each pair of states i and j in the state space obey
- detailedly adverb /dɪˈteɪldli/: In a detailed manner; with attention to detail.
- detailedness noun /dɪˈteɪldnəs/: The quality of being detailed.
- detailee noun: An employee of a United States government agency on assignment or loan.
- detailer noun: One who gives details of something.
- detailing noun, verb: A thorough description or explanation.
- detailingly adverb: In the manner of one who details.
- detailist adjective, noun: A person who is detail-oriented; One who focuses on detail.
- detailless adjective: Without detail or details; bare; simplified.
- detaillessness noun: Absence of detail.
- detailly adverb: In detail.
- detailman noun: A sales representative for a pharmaceutical company.
- detain verb /dɪˈteɪn/: To keep something from proceeding or coming to completion; to delay.
- detainable adjective: Capable of being detained.
- detainder noun: A writ.
- detained adjective, verb /dɪˈteɪnd/: Delayed or held back; kept from proceeding.
- detainee noun /ˌdɪteɪˈniː/: Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
- detaineeship noun: The state or condition of being a detainee.
- detainer noun: The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.
- detaining noun, verb: A delay, hindrance, or impediment; the act of holding back.
- detainingly adverb: So as to detain or hold back.
- detainment noun /dɪˈteɪn.mənt/: The condition of being detained; detention.
- detangle verb: To disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).
- detangler noun: A conditioner product for removing tangles from hair.
- detank verb: To empty (some substance) from a tank.
- detarget verb: To no longer target
- detargeted adjective, verb: No longer targeted
- detarrer noun: A device for removing tar.
- detartrate verb: To remove tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
- detartrated adjective, verb: From which tartrates have been reduced or removed through a detartration process.
- detartration noun: The process of detartrating, i.e. removing tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
- detassel verb: To remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.
- detax verb: Synonym of untax.
- detaxation noun: The removal of tax.
- detcord noun: Abbreviation of detonating cord.
- Dete proper noun: A town in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe.
- detechnicalize verb: To remove the technical aspects from; to simplify.
- detect adjective, verb /dɪˈtɛkt/: To discover or notice, especially by careful search, examination, or probing.
- detectability noun: The state of being detectable.
- detectable adjective /dɪˈtɛktəbəɫ/: Able to be detected, noticeable.
- detectable warning surface noun: Synonym of tenji block.
- detectably adverb: In a way that can be detected
- detectaphone noun: A sensitive microphone able to record conversations covertly even through a wall.
- detected adjective, verb /dɪˈtɛktɪd/: Having been noticed.
- detecter noun: Alternative form of detector.
- detectibility noun: Alternative form of detectability.
- detectible adjective: Able to be detected.
- detectibly adverb: In a way that can be detected.
- detecting noun, verb: An act of detection.
- detection noun /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/: The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
- detection comb noun: A very fine-toothed comb used to check a person's hair for nits or lice.
- detection dog noun: A specialized form of police dog; trained to use its sense of smell to detect and locate evidence of illicit substances, from illegal drugs to explosives...
- detective adjective, noun, verb /dɪˈtɛktɪv/: A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- detective gag noun: A gag fashioned from a piece of cloth pulled over the mouth and tied at the back of the head.
- detective inspector noun: A police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- detective sergeant noun: A British police sergeant qualified to manage investigations into serious and complex crimes.
- detective work noun: Investigative research.
- detectivelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a detective.
- detectiving noun, verb: Detective work; investigation.
- detectivity noun: The (relative) effectiveness of a detector
- detectograph noun: An early audio recording device used in wiretaps.
- detector noun /dɪˈtɛktə(ɹ)/: A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
- detector bar noun: A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train, laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so...
- detector van noun: A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a...
- detectoring noun: Metal detectoring.
- detectorism noun: The hobby of using a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
- detectorist noun: A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
- detectorless adjective: Without a detector.
- detelecine verb: To process (digital film footage) so as to remove artifacts introduced by the telecine conversion process.
- detemir noun: Ellipsis of insulin detemir.
- detemporize verb: To remove the temporal aspect of; to take (something) out of its time.
- detense verb: Synonym of untense
- detension verb: To remove the tension from something.
- detent noun, verb /dɪˈtɛnt/: That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch (stopping mechanism), pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the...
- détente noun /deɪˈtɑːnt/: Alternative form of détente.
- detention noun /dɪˈtɛnʃn̩/: The act of detaining or the state of being detained; hindrance.
- detention basin noun: A depression in the ground installed on a river or stream, which temporarily fills with rainwater that would otherwise cause flooding or downstream erosion,...
- detention cell noun: A holding cell.
- detention center noun: Alternative spelling of detention centre.
- detention centre noun: A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
- detention home noun: An institution in which juvenile offenders are temporarily housed.
- detention officer noun: A jailer.
- detention pond noun: Synonym of detention basin.
- detention time noun: The amount of time that water is retained in a basin or vessel, or the elapsed time of the water entering a settling basin until it flows out the other end.
- detention warrant noun: a court order authorising the detention of a person following his arrest or pending any procedural activity (interrogation, examination, trial, etc.).
- detentive adjective: That detains; relating to detention.
- deter verb /dɪˈtɜː/: To prevent something from happening.
- Deterding proper noun: A surname from German.
- deterge verb: To clean (especially a wound) of undesirable material.
- detergence noun: The active property of a detergent
- detergency noun: The active property of a detergent
- detergent adjective, noun /dɪˈtɜːd͡ʒənt/: Any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant.
- detergentless adjective: Free from detergent
- deterger noun: Any substance used for cleaning a wound.
- deteriorable adjective: susceptible to deterioration
- deteriorate verb /dɪˈtɪə.ɹɪə.ɹeɪt/: To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
- deteriorating adjective, verb /dɪˈtɪəɹ.i.əɹˌeɪ.tɪŋ/: Getting worse.
- deterioratingly adverb: In a manner that makes worse.
- deterioration noun /dɪˌtɪəɹɪəˈɹeɪʃən/: The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
- deteriorationism noun: A belief that things tend to grow progressively worse.
- deteriorationist noun: A proponent of deteriorationism; one who believes that things tend to grow worse.
- deteriorative adjective /dɪˈtɪəɹɪəɹeɪtɪv/: Causing deterioration.
- deteriorator noun: One who, or that which, deteriorates.
- deteriorism noun: The belief that society worsens over time.
- deteriorist noun: One who believes that society worsens over time.
- deteriority noun: A worsening in quality or state; or inferiority.
- determent noun: The act of deterring; deterrence.
- determinability noun: The quality of being determinable.
- determinable adjective, noun: able to be determined or limited
- determinableness noun: Capability of being determined; determinability.
- determinablism noun: A philosophy of determinables
- determinablist noun: An advocate of determinablism
- determinably adverb: in a determinable way
- determinacy noun /dɪˈtɜːmɪnəsi/: The ability to be completely determined in a definite way; the quality of being determinate.
- determinans noun: A modifier; a word that modifies another word.
- determinant adjective, noun /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/: A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- determinantal adjective: Of or pertaining to a determinant
- determinate adjective, noun, verb /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/: Distinct, clearly defined.
- determinate state noun: A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does bear a determiner (by contrast, in Aramaic there is an emphatic state or status...
- determinate verb noun: Synonym of concrete verb.
- determinated adjective: determined
- determinately adverb: In a way that is determinate
- determinateness noun: The quality or state of being determinate.
- determination noun /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/: The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.
- determinative adjective, noun: An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
- determinatively adverb: In a determinative manner.
- determinativeness noun: The state or quality of being determinative.
- determinativity noun: The quality of being determinative.
- determinator noun: A determining factor.
- determine verb /dɪˈtɜː(ɹ).mɪn/: To set the boundaries or limits of.
- determined adjective, verb /dɪˈtɜːmɪnd/: Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.
- determinedly adverb: In a determined manner.
- determinedness noun: The state or quality of being determined.
- determiner noun /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/: A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.
- determiner phrase noun: A phrase headed by a determiner.
- determinerhood noun: The property of being a determiner.
- determinerless adjective: Without a determiner.
- determinicity noun: The property or quality of being deterministic.
- determining adjective, verb /dɪˈtɝmɪnɪŋ/: Determinative; causal.
- determinisation noun: Alternative form of determinization.
- determinise verb: Alternative form of determinize.
- determinised adjective, verb: Alternative form of determinized.
- determinism noun /dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/: The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
- determinist adjective, noun /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nɪst/: An advocate of determinism.
- deterministic adjective /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/: Of, or relating to determinism.
- deterministic algorithm noun: An algorithm that when provided a specific input, will always provide the same output.
- deterministic Turing machine noun: A Turing machine whose governing rules specify only one possible action for any given combination of the state of the machine and symbol being read.
- deterministically adverb: In a deterministic manner, predictably.
- determinizable adjective: Capable of being determinized, or made deterministic.
- determinization noun: The act or process of determinizing.
- determinize verb: To remove non-determinism in an automaton; to convert a non-deterministic automaton to a deterministic one.
- determinologisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of determinologization.
- determinologization noun: The process of a termineme during which it loses its terminological characteristics in a specific domain and becomes the property of general language.
- deterrability noun: The quality of being deterrable.
- deterrable adjective: Capable of being deterred.
- deterration noun: The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; an unearthing.
- deterrence noun /dɪˈtɛɹəns/: The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
- deterrency noun: Synonym of deterrence.
- deterrent adjective, noun /dɪˈtɛɹənt/: Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.
- deterrently adverb: In a way that deters, or serves as a deterrent.
- deterrer noun: One who, or that which, deters.
- deterritorial adjective: Relating to, or facilitating, deterritorialization.
- deterritorialisation noun: Alternative form of deterritorialization.
- deterritorialise verb: Alternative form of deterritorialize.
- deterritorialization noun /ˌdiːtɛɹɪˌtɔːɹiəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/: The eradication of social, political, or cultural practices from their native places and populations.
- deterritorialize verb: To subject to deterritorialization.
- detersion noun: The act of deterging or cleansing.
- detersive adjective, noun: Having cleansing abilities
- detersively adverb: so as to cleanse.
- detersiveness noun: Having a cleansing quality.
- detest verb /dɪˈtɛst/: To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
- detestability noun: The state or quality of being detestable.
- detestable adjective /dɪˈtɛstəbl̩/: Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
- detestableness noun: The state or quality of being detestable.
- detestably adverb: In a detestable manner.
- detestate verb /dɪˈtɛsteɪt/: To detest.
- detestation noun: Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
- detested adjective, verb: hated
- detester noun: Someone who detests, a hater.
- detether verb: To disconnect (something previously tethered).
- detethering noun: The removal of a tether
- detext verb: To extract or remove from a text
- dethatch verb: To abrade the surface of a lawn or turf in order to remove dead grass.
- dethatcher noun: A device for dethatching, similar to a lawnmower but with vertical rotating blades.
- dethatching rake noun: Alternative form of de-thatching rake.
- dethaw verb: To thaw; unthaw; unfreeze.
- detheocratization noun: The act or process of detheocratizing.
- detheocratize verb: To make less theocratic.
- dethermalization noun: The removal of thermal interactions within a system
- dethermalizer noun: A device that alters the aerodynamics of an airplane, glider etc, allowing it to descend quickly but safely, especially when caught in a thermal
- dethiobiotin noun: Synonym of desthiobiotin.
- dethiolase noun: Any enzyme that catalyses a dethiolation reaction
- dethiolation noun: Any reaction that removes a thiol group
- dethreading noun: Any process in which the threaded structure of a molecule (such as a rotaxane) is disrupted.
- dethrombosis noun: The dissolution of a thrombosis
- dethrombotic adjective: Relating to dethrombosis
- dethronable adjective: That may be dethroned.
- dethrone verb: To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
- dethronement noun: Removal from a superior place in a hierarchy.
- dethroner noun: One who dethrones.
- dethroning noun, verb: The removal of a ruler from the throne.
- dethronisation noun: Alternative form of dethronization.
- dethronization noun: Dethronement.
- dethronize verb: To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- detick verb: to remove ticks (parasitic arachnids) from
- detin verb: To remove the tin from (metal scrap), usually for resale.
- detinner noun: A person or organization that carries out detinning.
- detinue noun: A person or thing detained; a detainee.
- detitanation noun: Any process that removes titanium from a material.
- Detmer proper noun: A surname
- Detmold proper noun: A town, the administrative seat of Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- detokenization noun: Process of detokenizing.
- detokenize verb: To convert (a tokenized representation) back to the original form.
- detokenizer noun: A program or algorithm that detokenizes.
- detomidine noun: An imidazole derivative and α2-adrenergic agonist, used as an animal sedative, primarily in horses.
- detonability noun: A measure of the readiness with which an explosive will detonate under specified conditions.
- detonable adjective: Able or liable to detonate.
- detonatability noun: Synonym of detonability.
- detonatable adjective: That can be detonated or is liable to detonate; detonable.
- detonate verb /ˈdɛtəneɪt/: To explode, blow up
- detonating cord noun: An explosive cord, typically used as a fuse/primer to detonate explosive charges, or as a cutting agent to cut patterns explosively. The explosive cord is a...
- detonation noun /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/: An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads...
- detonation cord noun: Synonym of detonating cord.
- detonative adjective: That is liable to detonate spontaneously
- detonator noun /ˈdɛt.ə.neɪ.tə(ɹ)/: A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
- detonization noun: detonation
- detonize verb: To detonate.
- detooth verb: To remove a tooth or teeth from.
- detoother noun: A gold digger; one who cultivates a relationship in the hope of acquiring wealth.
- detorse verb: To apply detorsion.
- detorsion noun: Alternative form of detortion.
- detort verb: to turn from the original or plain meaning.
- detortion noun: The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detorubicin noun: A particular anthracycline antibiotic.
- detotalization noun: A process of detotalizing.
- detotalize verb: To cause (something) no longer to be the total state of things, by means of adding something further that is not a part of it; to make incomplete by addition.
- detour noun, verb /ˈdiː.tɔː(ɹ)/: A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- detouring noun, verb: The act of taking a detour.
- detouristify verb: To stop conforming to the expectations or patterns of tourists.
- detourn verb: To subject to detournement; to reuse (elements of mainstream media) to produce a subversive message.
- detournement noun: The reuse of elements of mainstream media to produce a subversive message.
- detox noun, verb /ˈdiːtɒks/: Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or addictive drugs.
- detoxer noun: A person on detox; somebody attempting to rid themselves of drugs or other unhealthy substances.
- detoxicant adjective, noun: That detoxicates
- detoxicate verb: To remove poison (or its effects) from.
- detoxication noun: Any metabolic process by which the toxicity of a material is reduced
- detoxicative adjective: That causes detoxication
- detoxifiable adjective: That can be detoxified.
- detoxificant noun: Any material that brings about detoxification
- detoxificate verb: Synonym of detoxify.
- detoxificated adjective, verb: detoxified
- detoxification noun /diˈtɑk.sɪ.fɪˌkeɪ.ʃən/: The process of removing toxins.
- detoxification unit noun: A department in a hospital or a rehab used for detoxification of new patients.
Part 44 · Part 46 · English words: D
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.