dermis.noun
the sensitive.connective tissue.layer of the skin located below the epidermis, containing nerve endings, sweat and sebaceous (meaning 'fatty' {glands that secrete fat, a storing of digested food the body does not need at the moment}) glands and blood and lymph vessels
dermal.also.dermic.adjective
of.or.relating.to the skin or dermis

diploblastic.adjective
derived from two embryonic.germ.layers, the ectoderm and the endoderm; used of lower invertebrates, such as sponges and coelenterates

duh.interjection
the sound of what an individual might say when he's not yet up to comprehending what's going on; a word used to show what you're looking at is considered not to bright; 'duh' is used to say that what someone else has just said or asked is stupid; absurd; 'duh' is used to express stupidity when speaking of something done by someone who should have had the brains to know better (the example of ancient Jehoshaphat's funny attempt at shipbuilding, the result of which others might say 'like duh!':.1Kings 22:48,49); 'duh' is used derisively to indicate that something just stated is all too obvious or self-evident (the weather is indicating frost tonight, do you think I should cover up the tomatoes? Like duh! Yeah!)

doze, dozed, dozing, dozes.verbs
intransitive verb use.to sleep lightly and intermittently
transitive verb use.to spend time dozing or as if dozing (dozed the summer away on her first holiday in years)
doze.noun,.plural.dozes
a short, light sleep
doze off.phrasal verb
to fall into a light sleep
dozer.noun,.plural.dozers

deciduous.adjective
falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth (deciduous antlers; deciduous leaves; deciduous teeth); shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season (deciduous trees such as elm, oak, sycamore {also spelt sycomore}); not lasting; ephemeral
deciduously.adverb
deciduousness.noun

decommission, decommissioned, decommissioning, decommissions.transitive verbs
to withdraw a ship for example, from active service; to remove from being commissioned

diary.noun,.plural.diaries
a daily record of events, experiences and observations; a journal; a book for use in keeping a personal record, as of experiences

delicious.adjective
highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell; very pleasant; delightful (a delicious meal in every way)
deliciously.adverb
deliciousness.noun

dash, dashed, dashing, dashes.verbs
transitive verb use.if a person or an event dashes someone's hopes or expectations, it destroys them by hindering or making it difficult to impossible that the thing that is hoped for or expected will ever happen; to hurl, knock or thrust with sudden.energy; to break or smash by striking.violently; to perform or complete.hastily (dash off a letter; dash down a glass of juice); to add an enlivening or altering.element to; to.affect by adding another element or ingredient to (ice cream that was dashed with rum); to destroy or wreck (our memories were dashed when the vessel was decommissioned)
transitive verb use.to strike violently; smash; to move with haste; rush (dashed to the door); if you say that you have to dash, you mean that you are in a hurry and have to leave immediately
dash.noun,.plural.dashes
a swift, violent blow or stroke (accidentally knocked the glass of juice off the table with an impatient dash of his hand; a small amount of an added ingredient (a dash of his spice combination); a quick stroke, as with a pencil or brush; a sudden movement; a rush (made a dash for the washroom); in sports, a footrace, usually less than a quarter-mile long, run at top speed from the outset; a punctuation mark ( - ) used in writing and printing; in Morse code, the long sound or signal used in combination with the dot and silent intervals to represent letters or numbers; a  dashboard in a vehicle or the dashboard, the main selection screen of a program on a computer

department.noun,.plural.departments
a distinct, usually.specialized.division of a large organization (a principal.administrative division as of say, a city government (the fire department; the department of public works; department of roads; personnel department; the physics department in the university); a section of a department store selling a particular line of merchandise (the home furnishings department); one of the principal executive divisions of a federal government headed by a cabinet officer; an area of particular knowledge or responsibility; a specialty (getting the kids to bed by between 7-8 pm is my department)
departmental.adjective
departmentally.adverb
departmentalize, departmentalized, departmentalizing, departmentalizes.transitive verbs
to think and plan the organizing into departments
departmentalization.noun,.plural.departmentalizations

department store.noun,.plural.department stores
a large retail store offering a variety of merchandise and services and organized in separate departments

deport, deported, deporting, deports.transitive verbs
to behave or conduct oneself in a given.manner; comport
deportment.noun,.plural.deportments
a manner of personal conduct; behavior

deport, deported, deporting, deports.transitive verbs
to expel from a country; banish
deportable.adjective
subject to deportation (a deportable alien); punishable by deportation (a deportable offense)
deportation.noun,.plural.deportations
the act or an instance of deporting; expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country
deportee.noun,.plural.deportees
a deported person

dwarf.noun,.plural.dwarfs.or.dwarves
an unusually small person, often having limbs and features formed differently than those of average height; a dwarf star; a dwarf tree; dwarf shrubbery
dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfing, dwarfs.verbs
transitive verb use.to check the natural growth or development of; stunt (the plants were dwarfing due to the hot weather); to cause to appear small by comparison (the people of the Middle Ages were of dwarf size compared to the giants of old)
intransitive verb use.to become stunted or grow smaller
dwarfish.adjective
dwarfishness.noun

dais.noun, pronounced 'day is'
a raised platform as in a lecture hall for speakers or honored guests

dethrone, dethroned, dethroning, dethrones.transitive verbs
to remove from the throne; depose; to remove from a prominent or powerful position
dethronement.noun

disease.noun,.plural.diseases
a pathological.condition of a part, an organ or a system of an organism.resulting from various.causes, such as.infection, genetic.defect or environmental.stress, caused by various poisonings such as; disease is characterized by an identifiable.group of signs or symptoms; a condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful (it's a disease upon society when it is careless about cleanliness); disease means there is lack of ease in ones's body; trouble (due to her being.nervous and her lack of knowledge about public speaking, she experiences.dis-ease when she has to speak in front of a group)
diseased.adjective
affected with disease; unsound or disordered