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Descender
- noun - (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
- a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
- someone who descends
Descensus
- noun - the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)
Desperado
- noun - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
Desperate
- adjective - (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
- a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces mar
Destemper
- - A kind of painting. See Distemper.
Desuetude
- noun - a state of inactivity or disuse
Deuce-Ace
- noun - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Deuterium
- noun - an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)
Deuterons
- noun - the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators