Word origins

• dispositioOne of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.
• dispositorA disposer.
• dispungeTo expunge; to erase.
• disputativeTending to dispute.
• disputatorOne who takes part in a dispute; a disputant or debater.
• disseminableCapable of being disseminated.
• dissentaneousdisagreeing; contrary; differing
• dissentientA dissenter.
• dissepimentpartition (in an organ); septum
• dissertTo discourse or dispute; to discuss.
• dissertateTo make a dissertation; to discourse.
• dissilientForcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively.
• dissimileComparison or illustration by contraries.
• dissimulanceDissimulation; dissembling.
• dissimulatorOne who dissimulates.
• dissipableCapable of being dissipated or dispersed.
• dissiteLying or situated apart.
• dissolubleWhich can be dissolved or disintegrated.
• dissolventCapable of dissolution into a fluid.
• distentdistended
• disterTo banish or drive from a country.
• disterminateseparated, divided
• disterminationseparation by bounds
• distichA couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
• distinguoA distinction.
• dististylusIn mosquitoes, the distal segment of the gonopods.
• districtionSudden display; flash; glitter.
• 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.
• diuturnaldurable, long-lasting
• diuturnityLong duration; lastingness.
• divagateTo wander about.
• divaricateTo spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
• divaricationA divergence of opinion.
• divelTo rend apart.
• divellentCausing to break up or separate
• divellicateTo detach, rip apart.
• diverbA proverb or set phrase.
• diversiformOf different or varying forms.
• diversivolentDesiring difference or argument.
• diversoryA wayside inn.
• diverticleA turning; a byway.
• divide and conquerIn order to rule securely, do not allow alliances between your enemies.
• divide and ruleSynonym of divide and conquer.
• dividenceDivision.
• dividuousdivided; dividual
• divinatorOne who practices or claims to practice divination; a diviner.
• divinifyTo render divine; to deify.
• divisimSeparately.
• divisioA category in the classification of organisms, ranking below regnum and above classis.
• divitismThe condition of being rich.
• divulseTo pull apart forcibly.
• dochmiusA metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long.
• 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.
• doctrixA female doctor, chiefly a physician.
• DodonaeanOf, from, or related to Dodona, a town and religious shrine of ancient Greece, or its modern counterpart Dodoni.
• dodransA bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth three quarters of an as.
• dog daysThe days following the heliacal rising of Sirius, now in early August (Gregorian) at dates varying by latitude.
• dog's letterThe letter R, which was trilled in Latin, imitating the sound of a snarling dog.
• dolabraAn ancient axe or hatchet.
• dolabriformShaped like the head of an axe or hatchet.
• doli incapaxThe principle that a child cannot be held legally responsible for their actions, and so cannot be convicted of a criminal offence.
• dolioformShaped like a barrel or cask.
• doliolidAny member of the family Doliolidae of pelagic tunicates.
• doliolumA doliolid tunicate.
• doliumA large earthenware vessel used for the storage and transportation of goods (especially wine an olive oil) in the ancient Western Mediterranean.
• doloriferousProducing pain.
• doloroseGrievous and sorrowful.
• doloseDeceitful, with hidden malice.
• dolusEvil intent: malice or fraud.
• dolus specialisspecial intent of an offence
• domalOf or relating to a dome.
• domatiumA chamber produced by a plant in which insects, mites, or fungi live.
• 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.
• donatio inter vivosa lifetime gift, a present or future gift given during the donor's lifetime.
• donatio mortis causaA deathbed gift: a future gift given in expectation of the donor's imminent death and only delivered upon the donor's death.
• donativeBeing or relating to a donation.
• donatrixFemale donator.
• doniferousBearing or yielding gifts.
• do no harmTo perform no actions which will be injurious or in any way unfavorable to another person, regardless of whether one does anything of positive benefit for that other person.
• dorcas gazelleGazella dorcas, a gazelle native to northern Africa and western Asia.
• dormitoriumA dormitory.
• DorotheusA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• dorsateRidged.
• dorso-The back.
• DorylaeumA former city in central Anatolia, near the city of Eskisehir in present-day Turkey.
• doryphorosA spear-bearing soldier (nowadays, a statue of a man holding a spear, or appearing to do so).
• dosis-effectshowing the relationship between the dose and the effect of some administered medication or chemical
• dotalPertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting or comprised in dower.