Matching Words
1491 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Defalcator
- noun - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
Deflecting
- verb - draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors"
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack"
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
- to turn or cause to turn aside from a course; swerve
- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
Deflection
- noun - a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
- the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
- the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
- the property of being bent or deflected
Deflective
- adjective - capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)
Deflectors
- noun - a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc)
Deforciant
- - One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. (b) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.
Defrocking
- verb - divest of the frock; of church officials
Dehiscence
- noun - (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound