| deceitful |
full of deceit; duplicitous. [2 definitions] |
| deceive |
to lead (a person) to believe something that is untrue; mislead; trick; defraud. [2 definitions] |
| decelerate |
to lower the speed of; decrease in velocity; slow down. |
| December |
the twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar year, having thirty-one days. |
| decemvir |
one of a council of ten members that drew up the first code of Roman laws in 450 B.C. [2 definitions] |
| decency |
the quality, state, or condition of being decent. [3 definitions] |
| decennial |
happening every ten years. [3 definitions] |
| decent |
conforming to social standards as regards morality, modesty, good taste, or the like; not obscene or offensive. [5 definitions] |
| decentralize |
to assign the powers and functions of (a central organization or service) to various local branches or entities. [2 definitions] |
| deception |
the act of causing someone to believe an untruth, or the state of being so deceived. [2 definitions] |
| deceptive |
able to or tending to deceive; misleading. |
| decerebrate |
to separate the brain from the spinal cord of (a person or animal), as by surgery. [3 definitions] |
| deci- |
one tenth. |
| deciare |
a unit of area equal to ten square meters or 11.96 square yards. |
| decibel |
a unit indicating the level of loudness of sound, relative to a standard level, or indicating relative differences in power levels of electrical signals, equal to ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two levels. (abbr.: dB) |
| decide |
to arrive at a conclusion about or a settlement of; determine. [7 definitions] |
| decided |
unquestionable. [2 definitions] |
| decidua |
a mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is cast off at childbirth or during menstruation. |
| deciduous |
of trees and shrubs, having leaves that drop off seasonally each year. (Cf. evergreen.) [3 definitions] |
| decigram |
a unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram or 1.543 grains. |
| decile |
in statistics, any of the values that divide a frequency distribution into ten groups of equal frequency, or any one of these groups. |