English words: devaporation to devilweed aster
300 English words, part 47 of 118 of the words starting with D, A to Z. 28 have a page of their own.
English words devaporation to devilweed aster
- devaporation noun: condensation (the change of vapour into water, as in the formation of rain).
- devaprasnam noun: An astrological ritual carried out to interpret the will of the gods.
- devascularisation noun: Alternative spelling of devascularization.
- devascularization noun: The destruction or blocking of blood vessels and concomitant loss of blood supply to an organ
- devascularize verb: To remove or damage blood vessels
- devascularized adjective: From which the blood vessels have been removed
- Devasena proper noun: The goddess of aspiration.
- devast verb: To devastate.
- devastate verb /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/: To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
- devastated adjective, verb /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/: Ruined, ravaged.
- devastating adjective, verb: Causing devastation.
- devastatingly adverb: In a devastating manner.
- devastatingness noun: The quality of being devastating.
- devastation noun /ˌdɛ.vəˈsteɪ.ʃən/: The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
- devastational adjective: Of or pertaining to devastations.
- devastative adjective: devastating; highly destructive
- devastator noun /ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtə(ɹ)/: One who or that which devastates.
- devastavit noun /ˌdiːvəˈsteɪvɪt/: Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.
- devata noun: A kind of good spirit, similar to a guardian angel or a lesser deity.
- DeVaughn proper noun: A surname.
- Devault proper noun: A surname.
- devazepide noun: A benzodiazepine drug that acts as a cholecystokinin antagonist.
- Devbandi adjective: Alternative form of Deobandi.
- devdar noun: Alternative form of deodar
- Devdas noun: A grieving male lover.
- Deveaux proper noun: A surname from French.
- devegetate verb: To remove vegetation.
- devegetation noun: The removal of vegetation.
- devein verb: To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp).
- deveined adjective, verb: Having had the veins removed.
- deveiner noun: A small knife used to remove the colon from the back of shrimp.
- devel noun, verb: Alternative spelling of devvel (a hard blow)
- develin noun: The common swift.
- develop verb /dɪˈvɛl.əp/: To discover, find out; to uncover.
- developability noun: The quality of being developable.
- developable adjective, noun: Suitable for development, often specifically for construction
- developable surface noun: A surface (in more than two dimensions, a plane is trivially developable) that can be flattened into a plane without distortion.
- developed adjective, verb /dɪˈvɛləpt/: wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
- developed country noun: A high-income country with an advanced, industrialized economy.
- developedness noun: The quality of being developed.
- developer noun /dɪˈvɛləpə(ɹ)/: A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
- developer exit noun: A hidden exit or shortcut that a video game developer places in a level of a platform game, as an easy way to complete the level for those who know the secret.
- developer experience noun: A developer's feeling about their tools, processes, constrains etc, and how it impacts productivity.
- developer program noun: An initiative by a company to promote the development of software for one of its platforms or systems.
- developin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of developing.
- developing adjective, noun, verb /dɪˈvɛl.ə.pɪŋ/: In the process of development.
- developing country noun: A country with low to medium income although substantial industrialization; (sometimes derogatory) a country with less industrial base, and thus often...
- development noun /dɪˈvɛl.əp.mənt/: The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- development aid noun: Financial aid given by developed countries to promote the development of underdeveloped or developing countries.
- development hell noun: The situation where a project (such as a movie, musical record, or piece of software) is mired in problems that delay its production and release.
- development limbo noun: Synonym of development hell.
- development mule noun: A testbed vehicle equipped with prototype components requiring evaluation.
- developmental adjective, noun /dɪˌvɛləpˈmɛntəl/: Related to development.
- developmental biologist noun: One who studies developmental biology.
- developmental biology noun: The study of the physiological changes that occurs within individual organisms from their conception through reaching physical maturity.
- developmental coordination disorder noun: Synonym of dyspraxia.
- developmental disability noun: Any lifelong disability attributable to a mental or physical impairment, manifested during childhood or later in the human development age.
- developmental disorder noun: A psychiatric condition impairing a human individual’s childhood development.
- developmental position noun: A job that is designed to train or develop employees in preparation for further career advancement. example: management trainee
- developmental psycholinguistics noun: A branch of psycholinguistics that studies the acquisition of language in children.
- developmental psychologist noun: A type of psychologist who focuses on systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perceptual changes that occur in humans over the course of...
- developmental psychology noun: The scientific study of the psychological, emotional, and perceptual changes that occur in human beings over the course of their lifespans.
- developmentalism noun: An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and imposing...
- developmentalist adjective, noun: Of, or related to developmentalism.
- developmentally adverb: In terms of development.
- developmentary adjective: Pertaining to development; developmental.
- developmentation noun /dɪˌvɛləp.mənˈteɪʃən/: Development.
- developments noun: A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.
- developpe noun: A movement in which the leg is lifted to cou-de-pied or retiré and then fully extended outward, passing through attitude.
- Devendra proper noun: A male given name from India.
- Devenish proper noun: A surname.
- Devenney proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- Devenport proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- Devens proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- Deventer proper noun: A city in Overijssel, Netherlands.
- Deveny proper noun: A surname.
- Dever proper noun: A surname.
- Devera proper noun: A surname.
- Deveraux proper noun: A surname.
- deverbal adjective, noun /diːˈvɜː.bəl/: Derived from a verb.
- deverbal noun noun: Synonym of deverbal
- deverbalisation noun: Alternative form of deverbalization.
- deverbalise verb: Alternative spelling of deverbalize.
- deverbalization noun: The act or process of deverbalizing.
- deverbalize verb /diːˈvɜːbəlaɪz/: To make non-verbal; to strip of words.
- deverbally adverb: In a deverbal manner.
- deverbative adjective, noun /diːˈvɜː.bə.tɪv/: Derived from a verb.
- Devere proper noun: A surname from French.
- Devereaux proper noun /ˈdɛvəɹoʊ/: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
- Deverell proper noun: A surname.
- Devereux proper noun: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
- devernalization noun: The reversal of a previous vernalization.
- devernalized adjective: Modified by devernalization
- Deveron proper noun: A river in Moray council area and Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which flows into the Moray Firth at Banff.
- devescovinid noun: Any protist of the order Devescovinidae
- Devesh proper noun: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- devest verb: To divest; to undress.
- devex adjective, noun /diːˈvɛks/: Bending down, stooping or sloping.
- devexity noun: A bending downward; declivity.
- devi noun /ˈdeɪvi/: A goddess in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
- deviable adjective: Able to deviate or be deviated
- deviance noun /ˈdiːvɪəns/: Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
- deviancy noun /ˈdiːvi.ənsiː/: The state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous.
- deviant adjective, noun /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/: Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
- deviantization noun: The process of deviantizing.
- deviantize verb: To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant.
- deviate adjective, noun, verb /ˈdiː.vi.eɪt/: To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- deviation noun /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/: The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
- déviation conjuguée noun: Forced deviation of the eyes to one side, i.e. towards the side of a destructive lesion.
- deviation ratio noun: The ratio of maximum permitted frequency deviation, σₘₐₓ to the maximum permitted modulating frequency, fiₘₐₓ.
- deviational adjective: Of, pertaining to, involving or inclining toward some form of deviation.
- deviationism noun: Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism.
- deviationist noun: One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
- deviative adjective: Tending to deviate.
- deviator noun /ˈdivieɪtɚ/: That which deviates, or causes deviation
- deviatoric adjective: Of or pertaining to a deviator
- deviatory adjective: Tending to deviate.
- devic adjective: Relating to a deva.
- device noun /dɪˈvaɪs/: Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- device addiction noun: A pattern of compulsive or excessive use of electronic devices that interferes with daily functioning and well-being.
- device driver noun: Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer...
- device file noun: An interface to a device driver that appears in a file system, allowing an application program to interact with a device by using its device driver via...
- device tree noun: Alternative form of devicetree.
- device under test noun: A manufactured product undergoing testing, either at first manufacture or later during its life cycle as part of ongoing functional testing and calibration...
- deviceful adjective /dɪˈvaɪsfəl/: Full of devices; inventive.
- devicefully adverb: In a deviceful manner.
- devicefulness noun: The quality of being deviceful.
- deviceless adjective: Without a device.
- devicelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a device.
- devicetree noun: A data structure placed in memory by a computer system (such as firmware) that contains information about the available hardware on the system, allowing...
- devicetree blob noun: A binary representation used to encode the devicetree format, used for exchanging devicetree data between programs.
- devictimize verb: To divest of the status of victim.
- devigorate verb: Deliberately reduce vigor of vines.
- devil noun, verb /ˈdɛvəl/: An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- devil a bit adverb: Synonym of not at all.
- devil bird noun: An avian cryptid of Sri Lanka, said to emit human-sounding shrieks that portend death; possibly the spot-bellied eagle owl (Bubo nipalensis) or Ceylon...
- devil bolt noun: A sham, defective or faulty bolt, used to deceive an inspector regarding the quality of the material.
- devil chase noun: A musical instrument (idiophone) made from a split stalk of bamboo struck against a performer's hand, originating in South Asia.
- devil dance noun: A lively masked and costumed dance associated with some sects of Tibetan Buddhism, often offering moral instruction relating to compassion for sentient beings.
- devil dancer noun: One who performs a devil dance.
- devil dancing noun: Risky, reckless or potentially immoral behavior.
- devil devil noun: An evil spirit in traditional Aboriginal belief.
- devil dodger noun: A clergyman, especially a military chaplain.
- devil dog noun: A US marine.
- devil facial tumor disease noun: A deadly facial cancer affecting Tasmanian devils.
- devil frog noun: Beelzebufo
- devil grass noun: Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon.
- devil-in-a-bush noun: Alternative form of devil-in-the-bush (“the plant love-in-a-mist”).
- devil-in-a-mist noun: Synonym of devil-in-the-bush (“the plant love-in-a-mist”).
- devil in disguise noun: A person or thing that appears to be good, honest, or upstanding, but is inherently nasty, evil, or damaging.
- devil in music noun: The tritone.
- devil in one's eyes phrase: A look that reflects an underlying evil or corruption
- devil-in-the-bush noun: Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena).
- devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter phrase: Synonym of devil's beating his wife.
- devil is kissing his wife phrase: Synonym of devil's beating his wife.
- devil lies in the details proverb: Synonym of devil is in the details.
- devil-lore noun: Knowledge, study, doctrine, or history regarding devils and/or demons; demonology.
- devil-may-care adjective: Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.
- devil negation noun: A phenomenon observed especially in some languages such as Modern Irish, where a special kind of negative expression is formed using words meaning devil or...
- devil-on-the-neck noun: An old instrument of torture applied to the neck and legs.
- devil ray noun: Any of the rays of the genus Mobula, especially Mobula birostris, the manta ray.
- devil-ridden adjective: Plagued or dominated by the devil or devils.
- devil's advocacy noun: The act of playing devil's advocate.
- devil's advocate noun, verb: One who debates from a viewpoint which one may not actually hold, usually to determine its validity or simply for the sake of argument.
- devil's antlers noun: Misshapen antlers that grow on injured or malnourished elk.
- devil's apple noun: jimsonweed (Datura spp.)
- devil's avocado noun: devil's advocate
- devil's backbone noun: A perennial succulent spurge, native to tropical and subtropical North and Central America, of species Euphorbia tithymaloides (formerly known as...
- devil's beating his wife phrase: Said when it rains while the sun is shining; that is, when a sun shower occurs.
- devil's bed-posts noun: The four of clubs.
- devil's bit noun: A plant of species Succisa pratensis, native to Europe.
- Devil's bolete noun: Synonym of Satan's bolete.
- devil's bones noun: Dice used for gambling.
- devil's bread noun: Conium maculatum, poison hemlock.
- devil's breath noun: Scopolamine.
- Devil's buttermilk noun: Whiskey.
- devil's candle noun: The plant mandrake, especially when used in black magic.
- devil's claw noun: Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior
- devil's club noun: Oplopanax horridus (devil's walking stick) (large understory shrub native to the Pacific Northwest and the islands of Lake Superior)
- devil's coach-horse noun: A large black European rove beetle, Staphylinus olens or Ocypus olens.
- devil's coachhorse noun: Alternative form of devil's coach-horse.
- devil's corkscrew noun: A meters-deep, corkscrew-shaped formation of compact earth found in the American Midwest that is the infilled burrow of an ancient beaver genus †Palaeocastor
- devil's cotton noun: An Southeast Asian plant, Abroma augustum, which is used to make fiber.
- devil's cream noun: semen
- devil's cucumber noun: jimsonweed
- devil's cut noun: The portion of a distilled alcoholic spirit's volume that is lost by being absorbed into the wood of the barrels in which it matures.
- devil's dandruff noun: Cocaine.
- devil's darning needle noun: Clematis virginiana, a vine native to the United States.
- devil's delight noun: A riot; a row.
- devil's doorbell noun: The clitoris.
- devil's dozen noun: thirteen; baker's dozen
- devil's dung noun: The asafoetida.
- devil's dust noun: Any type of powder or dustlike substance whose use or effect is considered to be harmful or malevolent.
- devil's ear noun: Arisaema triphyllum.
- devil's fig noun: Synonym of susumber (“Solanum torvum”).
- devil's finger noun: A belemnite, any of various extinct species of cephalopod in the order Belemnitida.
- devil's fingers noun: A starfish, especially Asterias rubens.
- devil's food cake noun: A particularly rich form of chocolate cake.
- devil's footstep noun: A barren spot of land.
- devil's garden noun: A stand of trees in the Amazon rainforest consisting almost exclusively of a single species, Duroia hirsuta, and created by lemon ants (Myrmelachista...
- devil's gold noun: Sulfur (the element).
- devil's-grass noun: Alternative form of devil grass.
- devil's grip noun: Bornholm disease
- devil's hand noun: three of a kind sixes
- devil's herb noun: The herb form of cilantro/coriander.
- Devil's Hole pupfish noun: Alternative form of Devils Hole pupfish.
- devil's horse noun: Synonym of prairie alligator.
- devil's interval noun: The tritone.
- devil's ivy noun: Any of species Epipremnum aureum of vines, often used as ornamentals.
- devil's lane noun: A portion of land of disputed ownership at the boundary of the adjoining lands of two landowners.
- devil's lettuce noun: Marijuana.
- devil's livery noun: The color combination of black and yellow.
- devil's luck noun: astounding good luck.
- devil's needle noun: A dragonfly.
- devil's negation noun: Alternative form of devil negation
- devil's nettle noun: Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
- devil's number noun: A score of 87 runs, sometimes regarded as unlucky because it is 13 runs short of a century.
- devil's own adjective: Particularly devilish; highly unpleasant or evil.
- devil's paintbrush noun: Orange hawkweed (Pilosella aurantiaca).
- devil's picture books noun: Synonym of devil's books.
- devil's proof noun: A legal requirement to achieve an impossible proof. Remedies are reversing the burden of proof, or giving additional rights to the individual faced with...
- devil's purse noun: The egg case of some sharks, skates, and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes).
- Devil's Rings noun: Any of several circular markings on flat ground, some supposed to have been made by the Druids celebrating their religious rites.
- devil's rope noun: Mortal sin.
- devil's shoestring noun: The plant Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, catgut).
- devil's snuffbox noun: Puffball fungus.
- devil's staircase noun: Synonym of Cantor function; a type of monotonic increasing function.
- devil's strip noun: Alternative form of devil strip.
- devil's tail noun: A cooper’s knocker-up; a tool used to lift or level a cask head from inside the cask.
- devil's tattoo noun: A drumming with the fingers or feet.
- devil's teeth noun: Dice used for gambling.
- devil's threesome noun: Sexual intercourse between one woman and two men.
- devil's threeway noun: Synonym of devil's threesome.
- devil's toenail noun: A gryphaea, a kind of extinct oyster.
- devil's tongue noun: Synonym of konjac.
- devil's triangle noun: Synonym of devil's threesome.
- devil's trumpet noun: jimsonweed (Datura spp.)
- devil's tuning fork noun: Synonym of impossible trident.
- devil's twine noun: Either of two Australian plants, Cassytha glabella or Cassytha pubescens.
- devil's vine noun: Any member of the species Epipremnum aureum of vines often cultivated as a houseplant.
- devil's walking stick noun: Aralia spinosa, a woody plant native to eastern North America.
- devil's wheel noun: An amusement ride consisting of a circular platform that rotates rapidly while riders try to stay on it.
- devil screecher noun: A swift.
- devil seam noun: A particularly difficult seam to caulk on a ship's hull, specifically the curved seam where the deck planking meets the side of the ship, near the scupper...
- devil sign noun: A hand gesture formed by closing the middle two fingers and the thumb and extending the index finger and little finger so as to indicate devil horns.
- devil smoke noun: Crack cocaine.
- devil stick noun: singular of devil sticks
- devil sticks noun: A juggling prop consisting of two hand or control sticks (dowels) and a third larger, hourglass-shaped stick (baton or center stick).
- devil strip noun: The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street.
- devil take the hindmost phrase: An imprecation that everyone should look after their own interests, leaving those who cannot cope to whatever fate befalls them.
- devil to pay noun, phrase: Synonym of hell to pay.
- devil-worshipper noun: A person who worships or is otherwise religiously devoted to Satan or another demonic entity or adversarial deity.
- Devilbiss proper noun: A surname.
- devildom noun: A realm of devils.
- deviled adjective, verb: Alternative form of devilled.
- deviled crab noun: A crab meat croquette.
- deviled egg noun: A hard-boiled chicken egg that has been shelled, cut in half, and filled with a paste made from the yolk mixed with other ingredients such as mayonnaise,...
- deviled ham noun: A mixture of ground ham with seasoning, making it spicy.
- deviless noun: A female devil.
- devilet noun: A little devil.
- devilette noun: A female devil.
- devilfish noun: The octopus.
- deviling noun, verb: A small or young devil.
- devilish adjective, adverb /ˈdɛvəlɪʃ/: Resembling a devil.
- devilishly adverb: In a devilish manner.
- devilishness noun: The state or quality of being devilish.
- devilism noun: The character or doctrines of the Devil or devils; devilry.
- devility noun: The quality of being a devil or like a devil; devilishness.
- devilize verb: To represent as a devil.
- devilkin noun: A little devil.
- devilkind noun: The totality of all devils as a whole; devils collectively.
- devillagization noun: The reversal of the process of villagization.
- DeVille proper noun: A commune in Ardennes department, Grand Est, France.
- devilled adjective, verb: Grilled with a piquant sauce.
- devilled crab noun: British standard spelling of deviled crab.
- devilled egg noun: British standard spelling of deviled egg.
- devilled ham noun: British standard spelling of deviled ham.
- devilled kidneys noun: A British dish consisting of lamb kidneys cooked with cayenne peppers, mustard, and various other ingredients.
- devilled sausages noun: A stew of sausages, onions, tomatoes, gravy and spices.
- devilless adjective: Without devils.
- Devilliers proper noun: A surname, alternative form of de Villiers.
- devillike adjective: Like a devil; diabolical.
- devillin noun: Alternative spelling of devilline
- devilline noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
- devilling noun, verb: The pupillage of a prospective advocate or barrister.
- devillite noun: Synonym of devilline.
- devilment noun /ˈdɛv(ɪ)lm(ə)nt/: Devilish action or conduct; wickedness; (more generally) troublemaking behaviour; mischief; (countable) an instance of this.
- devilock noun: An alternative hairstyle where the sides and back are kept short while the front is kept long and combed forward.
- devilry noun /ˈdɛv.əl.ɹi/: Mischief.
- Devils Hole pupfish noun: A species of pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, found only in a single water-filled canyon in Nevada.
- devils on horseback noun: Dried fruits such as dates or prunes, stuffed with cheese or nuts, etc., and wrapped in bacon, prosciutto, or pancetta.
- devilsclub noun: Alternative form of devil's club.
- devilshine noun /ˈdɛv.ɫ̩.ʃʌɪn/: Illusion or delusion caused by or attributed to devils.
- devilship noun: The character or person of a devil or Satan.
- devilsome adjective: In manner, like the devil; characterised or marked by devilry; (by extension) causing mischief or trouble; problematic.
- devilsticks noun: Alternative form of devil sticks.
- devilstrip noun: Alternative form of devil strip.
- deviltry noun /ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/: Devilry.
- devilward adverb: Toward the Devil.
- devilweed aster noun: A spiny flowering plant of the western United States, Mexico and Central America related to asters, Chloracantha spinosa.
Part 46 · Part 48 · 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.