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Daycare
- noun - childcare during the day while parents work
Deacons
- noun - a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
- a Protestant layman who assists the minister
Deicers
- noun - heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane)
Deicide
- - The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.
Deicing
- verb - make or become free of frost or ice; "Defrost the car window"
Deictic
- adjective - a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
- relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use; "deictic pronouns"
Descale
- verb - remove the scales from; "scale fish"
Descant
- noun - a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
- sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
- sing in descant
- talk at great length about something of one's interest
Descend
- verb - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Go down
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Descent
- noun - a downward slope or bend
- a movement downward
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- Slope or incline,
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors