depot |
a bus or train station. [2 definitions] |
depress |
to cause to be unhappy or in low spirits. |
depressed |
sad or very low in spirits. [3 definitions] |
depression |
a mood characterized by deep sadness or low spirits. [4 definitions] |
deprive |
to take away from; not allow to have. |
depth |
the condition or quality of being deep. [2 definitions] |
deputy |
a person appointed to assist and sometimes act in the place of someone else. |
derby |
a horse race run every year and limited to three-year-old horses. [2 definitions] |
derivation |
act of process of deriving or coming from. [3 definitions] |
derive |
to obtain from a particular source (usually followed by "from"). [2 definitions] |
derrick |
a machine for lifting and moving heavy loads. It has a center beam that does not move and a long arm that turns around the base. [2 definitions] |
desalinate |
to remove salt from, esp. to make sea water drinkable. |
desalination |
the process of removing salt from water, especially for the purpose of making sea water drinkable; desalinization. |
desalinization |
the process of removing salt from water. Desalinization allows sea water to be used for drinking and for watering crops. |
descend |
to move downward or to a lower position. [4 definitions] |
descendant |
one who comes from a given ancestor or ancestors. |
descent |
the act or process of going downward. [3 definitions] |
describe |
to tell or write about; create a picture of in words. |
description |
the act of using words to tell others what something is or was like. [3 definitions] |
descriptive |
using or full of description. |
desegregate |
to stop the practice of having separate schools and other facilities for people of different races. |