Word origins

• dilatateDilated.
• diligencydiligence; carefulness
• diluviateTo run as a flood.
• dimidialrelated to something coming forth in halves
• Dimidium51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.
• dionysiacOf, or relating to Dionysus or to the Dionysia.
• DioscuriThe twin brothers Castor and Pollux together.
• directoriumIn the later Middle Ages, a Catholic liturgical guide for praying the Divine Office and Holy Mass.
• diremptionA ripping apart; a forceful sundering.
• dirimens copulatioMentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified.
• disafforestationThe change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws.
• discalceateTo remove shoes or other footwear.
• disceptTo debate; to discuss.
• disceptatorOne who arbitrates or decides; a judge.
• disciplinateSynonym of discipline.
• discommodateTo render unfit or unsuitable; to fail to treat well.
• discrimenA visible dividing line where two structures come together.
• discriminoushazardous; dangerous
• discruciateTo torture (someone); to excruciate.
• discursusargumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
• disertEloquent.
• disgregateTo disperse; to scatter.
• disgregationSeparation; scattering.
• dispensatorA distributor; someone who dispenses.
• dispositTo deposit.
• dispositioOne of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.
• disseminableCapable of being disseminated.
• dissertateTo make a dissertation; to discourse.
• dissimulanceDissimulation; dissembling.
• dissimulatorOne who dissimulates.
• dissolventCapable of dissolution into a fluid.
• disterminateseparated, divided
• distichA couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
• districtionSudden display; flash; glitter.
• diuturnaldurable, long-lasting
• divagateTo wander about.
• divaricateTo spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
• divelTo rend apart.
• divellicateTo detach, rip apart.
• divisioA category in the classification of organisms, ranking below regnum and above classis.
• dochmiusA metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long.
• dodransA bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth three quarters of an as.
• dolabraAn ancient axe or hatchet.
• doliumA large earthenware vessel used for the storage and transportation of goods (especially wine an olive oil) in the ancient Western Mediterranean.
• doloroseGrievous and sorrowful.
• doloseDeceitful, with hidden malice.
• dolusEvil intent: malice or fraud.
• dolus specialisspecial intent of an offence
• domatiumA chamber produced by a plant in which insects, mites, or fungi live.
• DorotheusA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• dorsateRidged.
• DorylaeumA former city in central Anatolia, near the city of Eskisehir in present-day Turkey.
• dotalPertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting or comprised in dower.
• dotateTo endow.
• draconeA large bag towed by a powered vessel to transport a fluid cargo, such as a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
• dracunculusA dragonet, a fish of families Callionymidae or Draconettidae.
• dramatis personaeThe characters in a play, story, or history; a list of them, usually arranged in order of first appearance, as protatic matter.
• duale tantumA noun (or specific sense of a noun) that can only occur in the dual, and which lacks forms for singular, plural, and any other number.
• dubitateto doubt
• dulcitudeSweetness
• DunelmensisThe bishop of Durham.
• duodecimvirAny member of a group of twelve officials.
• duplex querelaA complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop.
• duplicariusA member of the Ancient Roman army who received double the basic pay.
• duplicato-doubly
• duplifyTo double.
• duplo-double, twofold
• duramenheartwood
• DusaresA pre-Islamic Arabian god.
• -e-A linking vowel inserted between two morphemes, to ease pronunciation, without contributing to the meaning.
• -eanForms adjectives, usually from proper nouns.
• East LondonThe northeastern part of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England.
• EcbatanaThe ancient capital of Media, in modern-day Iran, and subsequently a royal residence of Persian and Parthian kings.
• ecce homoA picture representing Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, before his crucifixion.
• EchinadesA group of islands in the Ionian Sea
• echinusA sea urchin.
• ectochoroideaLoose, pigmented connective tissue that forms the outer layer of the choroid
• EdesseneOf or from Edessa.
• EdoniA Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios.
• educeTo direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
• effableAble to be spoken of; able to be expressed.
• effeminationeffeminacy; womanishness
• efferateTo excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.
• effervesceTo emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.
• effictioA verbal depiction of someone's body, often from head to toe.
• efflagitationAn earnest request, an entreaty.
• efflorescentBursting into flower.
• effodicateTo dig up.
• egelidLukewarm, tepid.
• egerminateTo germinate.
• ejurationRenouncement, rejection; resignation of one's position.
• EleaticOf or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
• elegitA judicial writ ordering seizure of a debtor's property.
• EleutheraeAn ancient fortified town on the border between Attica and Boeotia in ancient Greece.
• EleutheriaA personification of liberty, represented on certain ancient coins, and sometimes denoting the goddess Artemis.
• EleutheriusEpithet of Zeus/Jupiter
• EleutherusA river in Phoenicia, mentioned by Pliny
• elicitivePertaining to elicitation.
• eliminatrixA woman or girl who eliminates; a female eliminator.
• elixir vitaeelixir of life