deflowerment
The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.

defluidization
The process of removing the fluidization from a fluidized bed.

defluorination
The process of defluorinating.

defluxion
A flowing down; a running down.
A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.

defn
Abbreviation of definition.

defns
plural of defn

defocus
To cause (a lens, or a beam of light or particles, etc.) to be out of focus.

defocused
simple past and past participle of defocus

defocuses
third-person singular simple present indicative of defocus

defocussed
simple past and past participle of defocus

defocusses
third-person singular simple present indicative of defocus

defogger
Something or someone that defogs.

defoggers
plural of defogger

defoliator
Something or someone that defoliates.

defoliators
plural of defoliator

defolliculation
The action of defolliculating

deforcement
A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
Resistance to an officer in the execution of law. It is similar to resisting arrest or obstruction of justice in modern law.

deforcements
plural of deforcement

deforestation
The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

deforestations
plural of deforestation

deforestment
Alternative form of deforestation.

deforestments
plural of deforestment

deformabilities
plural of deformability

deformability
The state of being deformable
A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)

deformalisation
The process of deformalising something.

deformalization
The process or the result of deformalizing.

deformalizations
plural of deformalization

deformation
The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
A transformation; change of shape.

deformations
plural of deformation

deformatter
Something that deformats; a remover of formatting.

deformatters
plural of deformatter

deformedness
The quality or state of being deformed.

deformitie
Archaic spelling of deformity.

deformities
plural of deformity

deformity
The state of being deformed.
An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.

deformylation
Any reaction involving the removal of a formyl group

deformylations
plural of deformylation

defragmentation
The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.

defragmentations
plural of defragmentation

defragmenter
That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.

defragmenters
plural of defragmenter

defraudation
The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.

defraudations
plural of defraudation

defraudment
Privation by fraud; defrauding

defraudments
plural of defraudment

defrayal
The act of defraying.

defrayals
plural of defrayal

defrayment
The payment of charges, expenses, grants, etc.

defrayments
plural of defrayment

defthandedness
Alternative form of deft-handedness.

deftness
Skilfulness, being quick in action.
The characteristic of being deft.

deftnesses
plural of deftness

defucosylation
Any reaction that removes a fucosyl group

defucosylations
plural of defucosylation

defugalty
an inconsistency, especially with regard to forms of communication (i.e. text documents, radio or video transmissions).

defunction
Death.

defunctionalization
A compile-time transformation which eliminates higher-order functions, replacing them by a single first-order apply function.

defunctionalizations
plural of defunctionalization

defunctions
plural of defunction

defunctness
The state or quality of being defunct.

defusal
The act or process of making safe an explosive device (for example, a bomb, mine, or improvised explosive device), as by removing, disabling, or neutralizing its fuse, detonator, etc.
The act or process of calming, de-escalating, or otherwise making a potentially dangerous, volatile, or tense situation less dangerous or tense.
A particular instance or operation of defusing, especially an explosive device.

defusals
plural of defusal

defusion
The act of defusing.

defusions
plural of defusion

defuzzification
A process, in fuzzy logic, of producing a useful result from fuzzy data.

defuzzifications
plural of defuzzification

defuzzifier
A mapping that achieves defuzzification

defuzzifiers
plural of defuzzifier

defuzzyfication
Misspelling of defuzzification.

degalactosylation
The removal of a galactosyl group

degalactosylations
plural of degalactosylation

degarnishment
The act of depriving or stripping, as of furniture, equipment, supplies or of a garrison.

degazettal
The process or the result of being degazetted.

degazettement
The process of degazetting.

degazettements
plural of degazettement

degeiko
A practice session between rikishi of competing heya.

degelatinisation
The removal of gelatin (from)

degemination
The inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
A particular instance of such change.

degeminations
plural of degemination

degenderisation
Alternative spelling of degenderization.

degenderization
The removal of gender from something.

degeneracies
plural of degeneracy

degeneracy
The state of being degenerate (in all senses).
The ability of one part of the brain to take over another's function without being overexerted.
A limiting case of a class of objects which appears to be qualitatively different from (and usually simpler than) the rest of the class.

degeneralization
The process of degeneralizing.

degeneralizations
plural of degeneralization

degenerateness
The state or quality of being degenerate.

degeneration
The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
A thing that has degenerated.

degenerations
plural of degeneration

degenerescence
degeneration

degenerescences
plural of degenerescence

degenitalization
The process of degenitalizing.

degeration
Misspelling of degeneration.

deghettoization
The act or process of deghettoizing.

deglamorization
The process of deglamorizing.

deglobalisation
Alternative spelling of deglobalization.

deglobalization
The process of diminishing interdependence and integration between the economies of nations.

deglomeration
The act or process of breaking up a mass into fine particles.

deglomerations
plural of deglomeration

deglorification
The process of deglorifying; making something less glorious.

deglottalisation
Alternative form of deglottalization.

deglottalization
The act, process or result of deglottalizing.

degludec
Ellipsis of insulin degludec.

deglutamylation
The removal of glutamyl groups

deglutamylations
plural of deglutamylation

deglutarylation
The removal of glutaryl groups

deglutination
The act of ungluing.
The removal of gluten from a cereal product.
A process by which a formerly significant part of a combined term is clipped.

deglutinations
plural of deglutination

deglutinisation
Alternative form of deglutinization.

deglutinization
removal of gluten

deglutition
The act or process of swallowing.

deglutitions
plural of deglutition

degradabilities
plural of degradability

degradability
The condition of being degradable.
A measure of the extent to which something is degradable.

degradant
The product of the process of degradation.

degradants
plural of degradant