Matching Words
444 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Deduction
- noun - a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- an amount or percentage deducted
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
Defection
- noun - the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
Deflation
- noun - (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape"
- a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices
- the act of letting the air out of something
Dejection
- noun - a state of melancholy depression
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Dentation
- - Formation of teeth; toothed form.
Dentition
- noun - the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
- the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
Depiction
- noun - a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
- a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
- a representation by picture or portraiture
- representation by drawing or painting etc
Depletion
- noun - the act of decreasing something markedly
- the state of being depleted
Desertion
- noun - the act of giving something up
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"