Designedly (adv.) By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
Designer (n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
Designer (n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
Designer (n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
Designful (a.) Full of design; scheming.
Designing (a.) Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
Designing (n.) The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
Designless (a.) Without design.
Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Designment (n.) Design; purpose; scheme.
Desilver (v. t.) To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.
Desilverization (n.) The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.
Desilverize (v. t.) To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.
Desinence (n.) Termination; ending.
Desinent (a.) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.
Desinential (a.) Terminal.
Desipient (a.) Foolish; silly; trifling.
Desirability (n.) The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.
Desirable (v. t.) Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
Desirableness (n.) The quality of being desirable.
Desirably (adv.) In a desirable manner.
Desired (imp. & p. p.) of Desire
Desiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desire
Desire (v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
Desire (v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
Desire (v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.
Desire (v. t.) To miss; to regret.
Desire (v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
Desire (v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.
Desire (v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
Desire (v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
Desire (v. t.) Grief; regret.
Desireful (a.) Filled with desire; eager.
Desirefulness (n.) The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.
Desireless (a.) Free from desire.
Desirer (n.) One who desires, asks, or wishes.
Desirous (n.) Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
Desirously (adv.) With desire; eagerly.
Desirousness (n.) The state of being desirous.
Desisted (imp. & p. p.) of Desist
Desisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desist
Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
Desistance (n.) The act or state of desisting; cessation.
Desistive (a.) Final; conclusive; ending.
Desition (n.) An end or ending.
Desitive (a.) Final; serving to complete; conclusive.
Desitive (n.) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
Desk (n.) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
Desk (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
Desked (imp. & p. p.) of Desk
Desking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desk
Desk (v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
Deskwork (n.) Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.
Desman (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.
Desmid (n.) Alt. of Desmidian
Desmidian (n.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
Desmine (n.) Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
Desmobacteria (n. pl.) See Microbacteria.
Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
Desmognathous (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
Desmoid (a.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
Desmology (n.) The science which treats of the ligaments.
Desmomyaria (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa.
Desolate (a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Desolate (a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
Desolate (a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
Desolate (a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.
Desolate (a.) Destitute of; lacking in.
Desolated (imp. & p. p.) of Desolate
Desolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desolate
Desolate (v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
Desolate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
Desolately (adv.) In a desolate manner.
Desolateness (n.) The state of being desolate.
Desolater (n.) One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
Desolation (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Desolation (n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
Desolation (n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.
Desolator (n.) Same as Desolater.
Desolatory (a.) Causing desolation.
Desophisticate (v. t.) To clear from sophism or error.
Desoxalic (a.) Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
Despaired (imp. & p. p.) of Despair
Despairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despair
Despair (v. i.) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
Despair (v. t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
Despair (v. t.) To cause to despair.
Despair (n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
Despair (n.) That which is despaired of.
Despairer (n.) One who despairs.
Despairful (a.) Hopeless.
Despairing (a.) Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.
Desparple (v. t. & i.) To scatter; to disparkle.
Despatch (n. & v.) Same as Dispatch.
Despecificate (v. t.) To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
Despecfication (n.) Discrimination.
Despect (n.) Contempt.
Despection (n.) A looking down; a despising.
Despeed (v. t.) To send hastily.
Despend (v. t.) To spend; to squander. See Dispend.