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- core storage — a kind of computer memory consisting of storage units made of ferromagnetic rings
- corner store — A corner store is the same as a corner shop.
- corroborator — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- cryptorchids — Plural form of cryptorchid.
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- decorticator — A machine that peels off the fibrous husk, bark or outer layer of some vegetable product; used in the manufacture of animal feed etc.
- dedicatorial — relating to or acting as a dedication
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- denominators — Plural form of denominator.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depositories — Plural form of depository.
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- desert storm — the principal military operation carried out by UN forces in the Gulf War
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- determinator — a person who or a thing that determines
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dilatoriness — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- 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.
- disinhibitor — Something that causes a reduction in one's inhibitions; that makes people, or animals act more impulsively.
- disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- disquisitory — of or relating to disquisition
- disseminator — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- divinatorial — of or related to divination
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- echolocators — Plural form of echolocator.
- editorial we — we (def 6).
- editorialise — Alternative spelling of editorialize.
- editorialist — an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
- editorialize — to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- ejector seat — An ejector seat is a special seat which can throw the pilot out of a fast military aircraft in an emergency.
- electromotor — an electric motor
- elevator car — a compartment which carries people from floor to floor in a building via a vertical shaft
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.