Word origins

• dijudicationThe act of dijudicating; judgement.
• dilatatorA muscle that dilates any part; a dilator.
• dilectionlove; loving kindness
• dilogyAmbiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
• dilucidclear or lucid
• dilucidationThe act of making clear; clarification or explanation.
• dimicationA fight, battle or contest.
• dimidiateDivided into two (equal) halves.
• dimidium dimidiumquehalf and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar)
• diminuentlessening
• dimissionpermission to depart, or a dismissal.
• dimissoryGranting permission to be ordained.
• dimitTo dismiss, let go, or release.
• d. in p. aeq.Let it be divided into equal parts.
• dinumerationenumeration
• diptoteA noun which has only two cases.
• diradiationThe emission and diffusion of rays of light.
• diremptDistinct; separate; secrete; divided.
• direptionThe act of despoiling, plundering, looting, or taking away.
• dirimentServing to invalidate an attempted marriage.
• diruptiondisruption
• discalceationThe act of removing footwear.
• discedeTo yield, give up, depart or dissolve.
• disceptationControversy; disputation; discussion.
• discerpTo tear into pieces; to rend.
• discessiondeparture
• discideTo cut apart; to cut into pieces.
• discinctungirded or loosely dressed
• discindTo divide or split (something).
• disciplinableThat can be instructed (by discipline); able to be taught.
• disclusionA shutting off; exclusion.
• discousLike a disk/disc
• discriminalInvolved in discrimination.
• discubitoryleaning; fitted for a reclining posture
• discumbencyA reclining position at a meal table, as was apparently the manner in old times such as in Ancient Rome.
• discursionThe action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.
• discutientServing to disperse morbid matter; discussive.
• disensanityinsanity; folly
• disjectTo break apart; separate
• disjectiondestruction; dispersion
• dispandTo spread out; to expand.
• dispensativeGranting dispensation.
• dispergeTo sprinkle, scatter, or disperse.
• displacencyLack of complacency or gratification; displeasure or dislike.
• displicenceDiscontent, dislike, dissatisfaction.
• displodeTo burst with a loud bang; to explode.
• dispondeeA double spondee; a metrical foot consisting of four long syllables.
• dispositorA disposer.
• dispungeTo expunge; to erase.
• disputativeTending to dispute.
• dissentaneousdisagreeing; contrary; differing
• dissentientA dissenter.
• dissepimentpartition (in an organ); septum
• dissertTo discourse or dispute; to discuss.
• dissilientForcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.
• dissimileComparison or illustration by contraries.
• dissipableCapable of being dissipated or dispersed.
• dissiteLying or situated apart.
• dissolubleWhich can be dissolved or disintegrated.
• distentdistended
• disterTo banish or drive from a country.
• disterminationseparation by bounds
• distinguoA distinction.
• dististylusIn mosquitoes, the distal segment of the gonopods.
• disturbationdisturbance
• ditationThe act of making rich; enrichment.
• dithyrambA raucous and ardent choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus.
• ditrocheeA double trochee; a metrical foot made up of two trochees.
• diuturnityLong duration; lastingness.
• divaricationA divergence of opinion.
• divellentCausing to break up or separate
• diverbA proverb or set phrase.
• diversiformOf different or varying forms.
• diversivolentDesiring difference or argument.
• diversoryA wayside inn.
• diverticleA turning; a byway.
• dividenceDivision.
• dividuousdivided; dividual
• divinatorOne who practices or claims to practice divination; a diviner.
• divinifyTo render divine; to deify.
• divitismThe condition of being rich.
• divulseTo pull apart forcibly.
• docibleEasily taught, tamed or managed; teachable.
• dociousDocile, amenable to order.
• doctiloquentSpeaking learnedly.
• doctorandusA person who has passed a doctoral exam at a university, but has not yet attained a doctorate.
• Doctor of PhilosophyA terminal research degree and one of the highest doctorates awarded by a university.
• DodonaeanOf, from, or related to Dodona, a town and religious shrine of ancient Greece, or its modern counterpart Dodoni.
• dolabriformShaped like the head of an axe or hatchet.
• dolioformShaped like a barrel or cask.
• doliolidAny member of the family Doliolidae of pelagic tunicates.
• doliolumA doliolid tunicate.
• doloriferousProducing pain.
• domalOf or relating to a dome.
• domesticalDomestic.
• domitae naturaeof a domestic nature.
• dommyDominating, dominant.
• domoticsRobotic technology for use in the home.
• donableCapable of being donated or given.
• donaryAn object given or donated to a sacred use.