Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z deinstitutionalization The process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm. deinstitutionalize To perform deinstitutionalization upon; to free from an institution or from dependence upon an institution. deinstrumental Derived from an instrumental case-form. deinstrumentalization The process of deinstrumentalizing. deinstrumentalize To stop something being merely an instrument for achieving a goal, and thereby give it its own identity or autonomy. deinsulated From which the insulation has been removed deintegrate To disintegrate. deintellectualization The process of deintellectualizing. deintellectualize To cause no longer to be intellectual. deintensification The process of something becoming less intense. deintercalate To produce, or undergo deintercalation. deintercalated removed from between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues; prepared by deintercalation deintercalation The removal of a molecule that had been inserted between two others. deinterjectional Deriving from an interjection. deinterlace To convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame. deinterlacer A device, algorithm, etc. that deinterlaces. deinterleave To convert from an interleaved format. deinterleaver A program or algorithm that deinterleaves. deinterline To remove an interlining between (two rail lines) or interlinings in (a rail system) deintronization The removal of introns deinvest To withdraw one's investment. Divest (of which deinvest is a misspelling). deinvestment The process of deinvesting. deiodase An enzyme that catalyses the removal of iodine from iodothyronine; its deficiency causes goitre deiodinase iodide peroxidase, an enzyme that is involved in the activation or deactivation of thyroid hormones deiodinate To remove iodine from. deiodination The removal of iodine from a compound (especially from iodothyronine). Deion A male given name of African-American usage. deionization The use of ion exchange to remove ionic substances from a solution deionize To cause (an ionized substance) to return to a neutral state; to convert (an ion) into a neutral atom or molecule. deionized That has been prepared by deionization. deionizer A device that deionizes something. Deipara Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God. deiparous Giving birth to a god or goddess. deiphonine Any trilobite of the genus Deiphon deipnophobia A fear of banquets or dinner parties. deipnosophist A master of the art of dining, particularly learned conversation in the manner of Athenaeus's characters. deipnosophistry skilled table talk deipnosophy debate or small talk at the dinner table Deira A region of post-Roman Britain, later an Anglian Kingdom. Deiran Of or relating to Deira. Deirdre The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. deirid either of a pair of sensory papillae in the lateral cervical region of some nematodes deirochelyine Any turtle in the subfamily Deirochelyinae. Deisher A surname from German. deism A religious philosophy and movement prominent in 17th-18th-century England, France, and what is now the United States which rejected supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, divine revelation, and holy books or revealed religions that assert such things exist. deisolate To make no longer isolated; to integrate. deisolation The process of deisolating. deisotope To remove complications due to the presence of isotopes in a mass spectrum deisotoping The removal of complications due to the presence of isotopes (typically in mass spectrometry) Deiss A surname from German. deist Of or relating to deism and deists. deistic Of or relating to deism. deistical Of or relating to deism. deistically In a deistic manner. deisticalness The quality of being deistical. deisticness The state or quality of being deistic. deitalicization The process of deitalicizing. deitalicize To remove the italic formatting from. deitate deified; made into a god Deiter A surname from German. Deiters A surname from German. deity Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. deityforsaken godforsaken; particularly bad or terrible. deityhood The state of being a deity; divinity deityless Without a deity. deitylike Resembling or characteristic of a deity. deityship The condition of being a deity; divinity, especially as a jocular epithet Deitz A surname. Deitzel A surname. deixis The use of a word, such as a particle or pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the immediate physical, temporal, or grammatical context; a word used in such a way. deization Process of making deistic. Dej A city in Cluj County, in northwestern Romania. dejacket To remove a jacket. Dejaer Synonym of Deja Newser. dejargonization The removal of obscure technical language. dejargonize To free from obscure technical language. Dejarnett A surname from French. deject Make sad or dispirited. dejecta any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on. dejectable dejected dejected Sad and dispirited. dejectedly In a dejected manner, in a dispirited way. dejectedness The state or quality of being dejected. dejecter Something that casts down or diminishes. dejection A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues. dejectly In a dejected manner. dejectory Having power, or tending, to cast down. dejecture That which is voided; excrement. dejellied From which the jelly has been removed dejeration The act of swearing solemnly. Dejerine A surname from French. Dejesus A surname. Deji A male given name from Yoruba. Dejiang A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China. Dejima A former artificial island in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. dejitterize To reduce jitter. dejitterizer A device to reduce jitter. DeJohn A surname from Italian. Dejong A surname from Dutch. DeJonghe A surname DeJoseph A surname from Italian. DeJoy A surname. dejudaization The act or process of someone or something dejudaizing. dejudaize To remove or eliminate Jewish beliefs or customs from someone. dejudicialization The process of dejudicializing. dejudicialize To make no longer judicial. dejuice To remove the juice from. DeJulio A surname from Portuguese. dejunk To remove junk from; declutter. dejunker One who dejunks. dek The subhead of a news story. Dekabrist Decembrist dekad Ten days, especially of rainfall. Generally identified as dekad 1: 1ˢᵗ-10ᵗʰ, dekad 2: 11ᵗʰ-20ᵗʰ, and dekad 3: 21ˢᵗ-last day of each month. dekadal Pertaining to a dekad, 10-day weather period. dekadarchy Synonym of decarchy: rule by ten people. DeKalb A surname. Alternative form of de Kalb. Dekanovec A municipality of Croatia. dekarchy decarchy dekasegi A Japanese descendant (chiefly from Brazil or Peru) who migrated to Japan, often through a work visa dekatherm A unit of energy equivalent to 10 therms. dekatron A gas-filled tube used as a decade counter in early computers and calculators. dekchi A round-bottomed cooking pot. deke A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman. dekeck To pull down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent, as a prank. dekecking An act of pulling down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent. Dekemhare A city in Debub, Eritrea. dekeract A ten-dimensional hypercube deketo A chemical compound derived by removing a keto group. Dekiling A gewog of Sarpang District, Bhutan. dekink To remove kinks from. Dekker A surname Dekkerian Of or relating to Thomas Dekker (c. 1572–1632), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. dekko A look; a glance. DeKler A surname. dekopon A large, sweet hybrid citrus fruit, made by crossing a kiyomi and a ponkan. DekuJirou The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Kyouka Jirou from the My Hero Academia series. dekulakization The communist repression of the kulaks (prosperous peasants and farmers) in the Soviet Union and communistic Eastern Europe. dekulakize Usually with reference to the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe: to dispossess a kulak (that is, a prosperous peasant) of his or her property and/or rights. DekuMeli The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Melissa Shield from the My Hero Academia series. DekuMomo The ship of characters Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Momo Yaoyorozu from the My Hero Academia series. del The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. Dela A surname from Spanish. delabel To remove one or more labels from. delabialization The act, process or result of delabializing. delabialize To make into a non-labial sound. Delabole A village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, previously in St Teath parish (OS grid ref SX0784). delaceration An act of tearing into pieces. Delacerda A surname. Delacombe A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia. Delacour A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.