Word origins

• DepreyA surname from French.
• depucelateTo take (someone's) virginity.
• depurativePurifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
• depureto depurate; to purify
• derangeTo cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
• derobementAn avoidance of the opponent's attempt to take the blade or beat, performed with a straight sword arm.
• derouineAn expedition made to First Nations camps or villages for trade rather than waiting for the natives to come to the forts, often involving wintering in the camps.
• DerushaA surname from French.
• desertriceA female deserter.
• DeshawA surname from French.
• DeshonA surname from French.
• DeShongA surname from French.
• désoeuvréUnemployed; unoccupied, idle.
• detergeTo clean (especially a wound) of undesirable material.
• devissageA technique introduced by Alexander Grothendieck for comparing invariants about coherent sheaves on noetherian systems.
• devowTo give up; to devote.
• diablerysorcery
• diabolizeto represent as diabolical
• dialecticianSomeone skilled in dialectics: someone able to arrive at logical conclusions through reasoned argument.
• diamantiferousYielding diamonds.
• diathermaneityThe condition of being diathermanous.
• DifferdangeA municipality with city status of Esch-sur-Alzette canton, in southwestern Luxembourg.
• digitigradeOf an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
• diploteneThe fourth stage of prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosome pairs begin to separate and chiasmata become visible
• disboscationDeforestation for the purpose of creating cleared arable land for farming.
• disgraciousLacking grace; ungraceful
• dishabilleExtreme casual or disorderly dress, for example, with the shirttail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc.
• disobeisancedisobedience
• disorganiseTo make less organised; to reduce to chaos.
• disorganizeTo make less organized; to reduce to chaos.
• disparitionThe act of disappearing; disappearance.
• dissertatorSomeone who writes or performs a dissertation or speech.
• distingueFashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
• divertiseto entertain, to cheer up.
• divertisementfun; amusement; recreation
• DomrémyThe former name of the commune Domrémy-la-Pucelle in northeastern France. The commune is known for being the birthplace of Joan of Arc.
• dormitiveCausing sleep.
• doryphoreA petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.
• dos a dosA move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
• DoshierA surname from French.
• double entendreA phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.
• doucineA cyma or ogee.
• droit of admiraltyAny of certain customary rights or perquisites relating to enemy ships and property found at sea, including flotsam, jetsam, lagan, deodand, etc.
• dromologyThe science or logic of speed.
• druggetAn inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing.
• DuchaineA surname from French.
• DufraneA surname from French.
• DurassianOf or relating to Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu; 1914–1996), French writer and film director.
• DurioA surname from French.
• DutroA surname.
• duxellesA finely chopped mixture of mushrooms, onions, shallots and herbs sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste, used in stuffings and sauces (as in beef Wellington) or as a garnish.
• ébénisteAn ebonist; a cabinetmaker who veneers furniture.
• ebrietyThe state of intoxication, drunkenness.
• ecarteA card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
• eclaircissementAn explanation of something obscure or unknown; clarification, enlightenment.
• eco-ecology or the environment (in the ecological sense)
• ecouvillonA brush used to abrade the interior of a cavity or a wound.
• ecranisationAn adaptation of a book, story, or other form of written or graphic work into a film.
• ecraseurA surgical instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a chain to avoid haemorrhage.
• edulcorantsweetening.
• effluenceThe process of flowing out.
• effluveA spray-like electric discharge.
• effrontitMarked by impudence; shameless.
• eggs benedictA dish consisting of slices of English muffins with poached eggs, ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
• egregoreAn angelic being from the Book of Enoch.
• eighty-elevenVery many; too many to count; quite a lot.
• -eilDiminutive suffix in words of French origin.
• eleveA pupil or student.
• ElinvarA nickel–iron–chromium alloy notable for having a modulus of elasticity which does not change much with temperature.
• elisorA person appointed by a court for certain acts, such as to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
• elogistsomeone who pronounces an eloge or elogy.
• eloignmentThe act of removing something to be put far away; withdrawal.
• email ombrantThe art or process of flooding transparent coloured glaze over designs stamped or moulded on earthenware or porcelain
• embaleTo bind up; to pack, or bundle up into a pack.
• embarkmentembarkation; the act of setting out
• embarrasEmbarrassment; confusion, uncertainty.
• embassageAn embassy.
• embryogenyEmbryogenesis.
• embuggerto bugger; to engage in anal intercourse
• emigreea migrant, one who moves from one region to another.
• empressementAnimated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm.
• -enDenotes the past participle form when attached to a verb.
• enaluronCharged with birds.
• encrustTo cover with a hard crust.
• endocanalarRelating to the root canal
• endogeicBuilding complex lateral burrow systems in all layers of the soil.
• endolourRender dolorous; cause to be tormented by grief; aggrieve to profound sorrow.
• enfiledHaving an object, such as the head of a man or animal, impaled on it.
• enformTo form; to fashion; to shape
• engageeA worker in the fur trade in North America; a voyageur.
• EngleeA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• engorgeTo devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
• engrailTo make rough.
• enounceTo say or pronounce; to enunciate.
• en suiteSo as to form a cohesively themed or matching set.
• enté en pointImpaled by (something in) a pointed 'pile' at the bottom of a shield, especially as a means of marshalling.
• enter-Between, in the process of, intermediate; inter-.
• entermisemediation
• enterotomeA kind of scissors used for opening the intestine, often in post-mortem examinations.
• entertakeTo entertain; to receive.