Disruption (n.) The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
Disruptive (a.) Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.
Disrupture (n.) Disruption.
Dissatisfaction (n.) The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.
Dissatisfactory (a.) Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
Dissatisfied (imp. & p. p.) of Dissatisfy
Dissatisfying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissatisfy
Dissatisfy (v. t.) To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.
Disseat (v. t.) To unseat.
Dissected (imp. & p. p.) of Dissect
Dissecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissect
Dissect (v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
Dissect (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
Dissected (a.) Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
Dissected (a.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
Dissectible (a.) Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection.
Dissecting (a.) Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.
Dissecting (a.) Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.
Dissecting (a.) Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
Dissection (n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
Dissection (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
Dissection (n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
Dissector (n.) One who dissects; an anatomist.
Disseized (imp. & p. p.) of Disseize
Disseizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disseize
Disseize (v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.
Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.
Disseizin (n.) The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.
Disseizor (n.) One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold.
Disseizoress (n.) A woman disseizes.
Disseizure (n.) Disseizin.
Dissemblance (n.) Want of resemblance; dissimilitude.
Dissemblance (n.) The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation.
Dissembled (imp. & p. p.) of Dissemble
Dissembling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissemble
Dissemble (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
Dissemble (v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
Dissemble (v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.
Dissembler (n.) One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.
Dissembling (a.) That dissembles; hypocritical; false.
Disseminated (imp. & p. p.) of Disseminate
Disseminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disseminate
Disseminate (v. t. & i.) To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.
Disseminate (v. t. & i.) To spread or extend by dispersion.
Disseminated (p. a.) Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.
Dissemination (n.) The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
Disseminative (a.) Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
Disseminator (n.) One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.
Dissension (n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Dissensious (a.) Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious.
Dissented (imp. & p. p.) of Dissent
Dissenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissent
Dissent (v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
Dissent (n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.
Dissent (n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.
Dissent (n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.
Dissentaneous (a.) Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous.
Dissentany (a.) Dissentaneous; inconsistent.
Dissentation (n.) Dissension.
Dissenter (n.) One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
Dissenter (n.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Dissenterism (n.) The spirit or principles of dissenters.
Dissentiate (v. t.) To throw into a state of dissent.
Dissentient (v. i.) Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting.
Dissentient (n.) One who dissents.
Dissentious (a.) Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious.
Dissentive (a.) Disagreeing; inconsistent.
Dissepiment (n.) A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.
Dissepiment (n.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.
Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.
Dissert (v. i.) To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
Dissertate (v. i.) To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.
Dissertation (n.) A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
Dissertational (a.) Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
Dissertationist (n.) A writer of dissertations.
Dissertator (n.) One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.
Dissertly (adv.) See Disertly.
Di///// (imp. & p. p.) of Disserve
Disserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disserve
Disserve (v. t.) To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
Disservice (n.) Injury; mischief.
Disserviceable (a.) Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.
Dissettle (v. t.) To unsettle.
Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
Dissevered (imp. & p. p.) of Dissever
Dissevering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissever
Dissever (v. t.) To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
Dissever (v. i.) To part; to separate.
Disseverance (n.) The act of disserving; separation.
Disseveration (n.) The act of disserving; disseverance.
Disseverment (n.) Disseverance.
Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.
Dissheathe (v. i.) To become unsheathed.
Disship (v. t.) To dismiss from service on board ship.
Disshiver (v. t. & i.) To shiver or break in pieces.
Dissidence (a.) Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.
Dissident (a.) No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Dissident (n.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.