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Derricks
- noun - a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered
- a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom
Derriere
- noun - the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
Desalted
- verb - remove salt from; "desalinate water"
Descaled
- verb - remove the scales from; "scale fish"
Descales
- verb - remove the scales from; "scale fish"
Descants
- 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
Descends
- 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"
Descents
- noun - a downward slope or bend
- a movement downward
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- 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
Describe
- verb - give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
- to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"