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- disconsolated — Obsolete form of disconsolate.
- discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
- discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disintoxicate — to free from intoxication or drunkenness
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dissociations — Plural form of dissociation.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
- domiciliation — to domicile.
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- dutch auction — a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- ecomanagement — any of various ways to lessen the harmful impact of human activity on the environment.
- economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
- ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
- ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
- ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
- educationally — pertaining to education.
- educationists — Plural form of educationist.
- egotistically — In an egotistic manner.
- egyptological — Alternative form of Egyptological.