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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 decemvirate A group of ten people, especially (politics) a council of ten men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of ten men who reformed and codified Roman law circa 450 BCE. decenary Of or related to the number ten, (particularly) as a base of numeration. decennal Synonym of decennial, of or related to a 10-year period. decennalian Synonym of decennial, of or related to a ten-year period. decennary Decennial: of or related to a ten-year period. decennoval Of or related to the number nineteen. deceptious deceptive, tending to deceive. deceptory deceptive decerp To pluck off, to pick out, extract or gather. decertation contest for mastery; contention; strife decession departure; decrease decidence A falling off or falling out: shedding. decime Synonym of tithing (a division of the hundreds of medieval England) decipiency hallucination or deception. declinatory Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. declivitous Descending gradually; sloping; downhill. decoct To make an infusion. decorament ornament decree nisi a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; it becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not. decretist A student, or epert, of decretals or decrees. decrustation The removal of a crust (various senses). decuman Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence. decumbent Lying down; reclining on the ground. decumbiture The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness. decurion An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army. decurrent Of plant parts: extending downward, most often in the case of leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem. decursion A flowing. decurt To cut short; to truncate; to curtail. decury A group of ten men under the command of a decurion. decussation A crossing or intersection of lines etc. so as to form an X-shape. decussorium An instrument for depressing the dura after trephining. dedecorate To bring to shame; to disgrace. dedecoration Disgrace; dishonour. dedecorous disgraceful; unbecoming dedendum The difference between the radius of the pitch circle of a gear and its root circle. dedicator One who dedicates. de dicto Taking the utterance in consideration, without having a particular referent in mind. deditio In medieval Europe, an act of ritualized submission and request for mercy, performed before a monarch or other feudal lord. dedition yielding, surrender. dedolation A slicing wound made by a sharp instrument grazing the surface. dedolent Feeling no compunction; apathetic. deductor One who deducts something, particularly one who deducts tax from wages or deducts certain expenditures from payment of tax. deest Placed after a catalogue abbreviation to indicate that this particular work does not appear in it. defatigable Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued. defatigation Fatigue; weariness. defedation The process of polluting or making filthy; pollution. defensative Serving to protect or defend; defensive defensory Tending to defend; defensive. defervescence The departure or subsiding of a fever. defiliation The separation of a child from its parents. defix To fix, fasten, or establish. deflexure A bending or turning aside; deflection. defluous Flowing down; falling off. deflux downward flow defluxion A flowing down; a running down. defraudation The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. degender To degenerate. degenerous Degenerate; base. dehonestation An act of dishonouring or disgracing. dehort To dissuade. dehortation Advice against something; dissuasion. dehortatory designed to dehort (dissuade); dissuasive deificate To deify. deiparous Giving birth to a god or goddess. 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. dejectory Having power, or tending, to cast down. dejeration The act of swearing solemnly. delaceration An act of tearing into pieces. delactation The act of weaning. delapse To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. delate To carry; to convey. delation Conveyance. delative A grammatical case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table"). delegatory Holding a delegated position. delibation Act of tasting; a slight trial. delible That which can be deleted or erased. delibration The act of stripping off bark. delictuous transgressing morality deligotype A form of polymorphism in the repeat units of DNA deligotyping The identification and characterisation of deligotypes delinition A smearing. deliquescent Seeming to melt away. delirament A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. delirant Delirious. delirifacient Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. delitescent Lying uncovered inside; latent. delphinic Relating to dolphins; delphine. delphinion A temple dedicated to Apollo Delphinios. delphinoid Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin deltafication The formation of a delta or deltas. de lunatico inquirendo A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual. demency Madness; dementia. demerge To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger. demerse To immerse, to submerge (something). demersion The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. demigration emigration demiss Humble, lowly; abject. demit To let fall; to depress; to yield. demonstrant A participant in a demonstration. Demosthenic Pertaining to or characteristic of Demosthenes, a celebrated Athenian orator (384-322, B.C.), especially famous for his "Phillippics," or orations delivered against the encroachments of Philip, king of Macedon.