delicate
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
Intended for use with fragile items.
Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.

delicates
Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie

dendrophilia
The love of trees.

desert marigolds
plural of desert marigold

deutomerites
plural of deutomerite

deva
A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.

devas
plural of deva

diamondback moth
Any of the species Plutella xylostella of moths, formerly P. maculipennis, an agricultural pest chiefly feeding on leaves of cruciferous crops and plants that produce glucosinolates.

diamondback moths
plural of diamondback moth

diaphone
A kind of organ pipe.
A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

diaphones
plural of diaphone

dingy dart
A hesperiid butterfly, of species Suniana lascivia, endemic to Australia.

dingy skipper
A small, cryptic, dull brown butterfly, Erynnis tages, of the family Hesperiidae

diogenites
plural of diogenite

dione
diketone

diones
plural of dione

diota
A vase or drinking cup with two handles.

diotae
plural of diota

diotas
plural of diota

dira
The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).

diras
plural of dira

dis
Alternative spelling of diss.

disir
plural of dis

disses
plural of diss

docker
One who performs docking, as of tails.
One who engages in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).

dockers
plural of docker

doina
A kind of Romanian folk song, often of lament, which has also been adopted into klezmer (Ashkenazi Jewish) music.

doinas
plural of doina

dorsa
plural of dorsum

dorsum
The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.
Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat.

dosa
A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.

dosai
Alternative spelling of dosa (“type of pancake”).

dosais
plural of dosai

dosas
plural of dosa

dosha
Any of the three regulatory principles of Ayurveda.

doshas
plural of dosha

doxa
Popular opinion or belief.

doxas
plural of doxa

drachm
A small unit of weight, variously:
A small unit of weight, variously:
A small unit of weight, variously:
A small unit of weight, variously:
Alternative form of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma.

drachma
The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
A coin worth one drachma.
An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
A later Greek weight equal to a gram.

drachmae
plural of drachma

drachmai
plural of drachma

drachmas
plural of drachma

drachme
Dated form of drachma.

drachmes
plural of drachme

dracma
Archaic form of drachma.

dracmas
plural of dracma

dragonflame
Flame produced by a dragon.

drakhma
Alternative form of drachma.

drakhmai
plural of drakhma
plural of drakhme

drakhme
Alternative form of drachma.

drepanids
plural of drepanid

drinker
Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
A device from which animals can drink.
A pub.
A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.

drinkers
plural of drinker

dryad
A female tree spirit.
mountain avens, dryas

dryade
Obsolete form of dryad.

dryades
plural of dryade

dryads
plural of dryad

dryas
Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens.
One of two periods of cold and increased glaciation thousands of years before the present (Younger Dryas and Older Dryas).

dryases
plural of dryas

dubia
A set of questions on doctrine sent by Catholic bishops to the Holy See.

dun-bar
A moth of species Cosmia trapezina, found in parts of Europe.

duplex
Double; made up of two parts.
Double; made up of two parts.
Double; made up of two parts.
Bidirectional (in two directions).
Having horizons with contrasting textures.

duplexes
plural of duplex

duplices
plural of duplex

dura
Ellipsis of dura mater.

durae
plural of dura

duras
plural of dura

dusky knight
The butterfly Ypthima arctous, family Nymphalidae, of Australia and New Guinea.

duskywings
plural of duskywing

dypnone
diphenyl-butenone, Ph-C(=O)CH=C(CH₃)-Ph, or any of its derivatives
β-methyl Chalcone

dysbulia
Weakness of volition or willpower.

dysgnathia
malformation of the jaw

dysmorphia
Any of various psychological disorders of distorted body image in which a person inaccurately believes that their body is misshapen or inadequate, such as anorexia, bulimia, and muscle dysmorphia ("bigorexia").

dysmorphias
plural of dysmorphia

dysmorphosis
Synonym of dysmorphia.

dysraphia
dysraphism

eastern tent caterpillar
Malacosoma americanum, a univoltine social caterpillar inhabiting communal nests in the branches of trees.

echopraxis
Alternative spelling of echopraxia.

ecotraveler
US standard spelling of ecotraveller.

ecotravelers
plural of ecotraveler

ehuru
African nutmeg

elephant ears
plural of elephant ear

elvanites
plural of elvanite

embola
plural of embolon

emeses
plural of emesis

emesis
The act or process of vomiting.

emperor moth
A moth of the subfamily Saturniinae.

empyreuma
The particular smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in sealed containers.

empyreumas
plural of empyreuma

empyreumata
plural of empyreuma

enargia
Vivid, lively description.

endeixis
A legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.

endwalls
plural of endwall

enedione
Any dione (diketone) in which the two carbonyl groups are separated by a double bond

enediones
plural of enedione

engrailed
Having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards (and convex part inwards).

engraileds
plural of engrailed

enosis
Alternative letter-case form of Enosis

epagoge
The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

ephyra
An immature medusoid stage of a scyphozoan jellyfish once it breaks off from its segmenting polyp.

ephyrae
plural of ephyra

epiblem
Synonym of rhizodermis.

epiblema
The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.

epiblems
plural of epiblem

epiphora
epistrophe
Excessive tear production usually a result from an irritation of the eye.
Any of species Polystachya (syn. Epiphora) of yellowspike orchids, of tropical and subtropical environments worldwide.

epiphoras
plural of epiphora

episema
plural of episemon

epistemai
plural of episteme

episteme
Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
Know-how; compare techne.
The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.

epistemes
plural of episteme

epizeuxes
plural of epizeuxis

epizeuxis
The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.