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  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discount store — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disincorporate — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • disorderedness — The quality of being disordered.
  • disorderliness — The state or quality of being disorderly.
  • disorientating — to disorient.
  • disorientation — to disorient.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • dissertational — Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • domain address — (networking)   The name of a host on the Internet belonging to the hierarchy of Internet domains.
  • domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
  • domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
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