decubitus
The posture of someone in bed, lying down or reclining.
Ellipsis of decubitus ulcer.

deculturalization
The process of deculturalizing.

deculturation
deculturization

deculturations
plural of deculturation

deculturization
The act or process of deculturizing.

decumbence
The act or posture of lying down.

decumbency
decumbence

decumulation
The process of decumulating; in chemistry, any exothermic molecular change that converts a cumulated diene to a conjugated diene.

decumulations
plural of decumulation

decuries
plural of decury

decurrence
The act of running down; a lapse.

decurrency
Alternative form of decurrence.

decursion
A flowing.
A hostile incursion.

decursions
plural of decursion

decurtation
The act of cutting short.

decurtations
plural of decurtation

decury
A group of ten men under the command of a decurion.

decussation
A crossing or intersection of lines etc. so as to form an X-shape.

decussations
plural of decussation

decyclization
The reverse of a cyclization reaction

decyclizations
plural of decyclization

decyne
Any of several isomeric acetylenes having ten carbon atoms, but especially 1-decyne

decynes
plural of decyne

dedecoration
Disgrace; dishonour.
The removal of decoration.
Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration.

dedemonisation
Alternative form of dedemonization.

dedemonization
The act of dedemonizing someone or something.

dedensification
The act or process of making or becoming less dense

dedensifications
plural of dedensification

dedentation
The reversal of indentation, moving the text cursor back out from its indented position.

dediazoniation
Synonym of dediazotation.

dediazoniations
plural of dediazoniation

dediazotation
Any reaction that removes a diazo group

dediazotations
plural of dediazotation

dedicand
One to whom something is dedicated.

dedicands
plural of dedicand

dedicatedness
The quality of being dedicated.

dedication
The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.
The event, or the ceremony celebrating it, marking an official completion, opening, or beginning.
The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.

dedications
plural of dedication

dedifferentiation
The loss or reversal of differentiation.
The biological process whereby cells revert from a specialized function to a simpler or less specialized form.

dedifferentiations
plural of dedifferentiation

dedikaryotisation
Alternative form of dedikaryotization.

dedikaryotization
The conversion of a dikaryon into a pair of homokaryons

dedispersion
The act of dedispersing.

dedition
yielding, surrender.

deditions
plural of dedition

dedo
A traditional short Spanish unit of length, usually about equal to 1.75 cm.
A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 1.8 cm.

dedogmatization
The process of dedogmatizing.

dedollarisation
Alternative spelling of dedollarization.

dedollarization
The process of phasing out local acceptance of the United States dollar or other foreign currency and returning to the domestic currency or using other currencies.

dedolomitization
Conversion to a form that is no longer dolomite.

dedomestication
The process of returning a domesticated animal to the wild.

dedomestications
plural of dedomestication

dedos
plural of dedo

dedoublement
A doubling; duplication.

dedovshchina
Hazing, the informal system of subjection and physical or sexual abuse of new junior conscripts, formerly in the Soviet Armed Forces and contemporarily in the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. armed forces.

dedramatization
The process of dedramatizing.

deducement
Inference; deduction; something that is deduced.

deducements
plural of deducement

deducibility
The condition of being deducible

deducibleness
The quality of being deducible.

deductability
Alternative form of deductibility.

deductee
One from whom tax is deducted.

deductees
plural of deductee

deductibilities
plural of deductibility

deductibility
The ability to be deducted, such as from one's taxes

deductiveness
The quality of being deductive.

deductivism
The use of deductive reasoning.

dedup
Deduplication; elimination of redundant duplicate data.

deduper
A deduplicator.

dedupers
plural of deduper

deduplication
The act of removing duplication or redundancy.
The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, such as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

deduplications
plural of deduplication

deduplicator
A process or system that deduplicates.

deduplicators
plural of deduplicator

deediness
Full of purposeful activity; industriousness.
Ostentatious busyness; A type of showiness that seeks to seem important.

deedlessness
Absence of deeds.

deeeath
Elongated form of death.

deen
religion; religiosity; the way of life of a pious Muslim

deenergization
Alternative form of de-energization.

deenergizations
plural of deenergization

deepfakery
The creation and use of deepfakes, often with malicious intent.

deepie
A three-dimensional motion picture.

deepies
plural of deepie

deepities
plural of deepity

deepity
A superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.

deepness
The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)

deepnesses
plural of deepness

deepnight
The middle of the night; dead of night.

deepoxidation
The removal of an epoxide group

deepoxidations
plural of deepoxidation

deerdom
The state or essence of a deer; deer collectively.

deerhood
The state or condition of being a deer.

deerness
The state or quality of being a deer.

deerslaughter
The killing of a deer, the slaughter of deer; cervicide.

deescalation
Alternative form of de-escalation.

deescalations
plural of deescalation

deest
Placed after a catalogue abbreviation to indicate that this particular work does not appear in it.

deestablishment
Disestablishment.

deet
Abbreviation of detail.

deev
Alternative spelling of daeva.

deevs
plural of deev

defacement
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

defacements
plural of defacement

defactualization
The removal of facts.

defaecation
Alternative form of defecation.

defaecations
plural of defaecation

defailance
failure; miscarriage

defailances
plural of defailance

defailment
Failure.

defailments
plural of defailment

defailure
failure

defaitism
Defeatism.

defalcation
The act of cancelling part of a claim by deducting a smaller claim which the claimant owes to the defendant.
Embezzlement.

defalcations
plural of defalcation

defamation
The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.

defamations
plural of defamation

defamatoriness
The quality of being defamatory.

defamiliarisation
The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.

defamiliarisations
plural of defamiliarisation

defamiliarization
Alternative spelling of defamiliarisation.

defamiliarizations
plural of defamiliarization

defascistisation
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of defascistization.

defascistization
Process of defascistizing something; the undoing of something’s fascist character.

defassa
A variety of waterbuck.

defassas
plural of defassa

defatigation
Fatigue; weariness.

defaultism
An approach or situation in which something occurs by default, without being explicitly introduced.
The often misguided belief that the circumstances surrounding an individual are the default for everyone else.

defeasement
Defeasance.

defeasements
plural of defeasement