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  • dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
  • dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
  • dinner money — money given to school children to buy dinner at school
  • dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
  • dipropellant — bipropellant.
  • dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
  • disconcerted — disturbed, as in one's composure or self-possession; perturbed; ruffled: She was disconcerted by the sudden attack on her integrity.
  • disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
  • disconnector — (electrical engineering) A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical system to allow the maintenance staff a safe access to it.
  • discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
  • discretional — discretionary.
  • disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
  • disenrolling — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
  • disgorgement — The act of disgorging, particularly in the legal sense.
  • disgregation — the separation of components from a whole, esp of people from a company
  • disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
  • dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • disinherison — Disherison.
  • disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
  • disordinance — (obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance.
  • disorganised — Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
  • disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
  • disorientate — to disorient.
  • disorienting — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
  • disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
  • disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • dissertation — a written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
  • diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
  • diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
  • divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
  • doctrinaires — Plural form of doctrinaire.
  • dog's dinner — mess, failure
  • dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
  • domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
  • dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
  • echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • econometrics — the application of statistical and mathematical techniques in solving problems as well as in testing and demonstrating theories.
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