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Terms
5,849- Desk
- Deskwork
- Desman
- Desmid; Desmidian
- Desmine
- Desmobacteria
- Desmodont
- Desmognathous
- Desmoid
- Desmology
- Desmomyaria
- Desolate
- Desolately
- Desolateness
- Desolater
- Desolation
- Desolator
- Desolatory
- Desophisticate
- Desoxalic
- Despair
- Despairer
- Despairful
- Despairing
- Desparple
- Despatch
- Despecificate
- Despecification
- Despect
- Despection
- Despeed
- Despend
- Desperado
- Desperate
- Desperately
- Desperateness
- Desperation
- Despicability
- Despicable
- Despicableness
- Despicably
- Despiciency
- Despisable
- Despisal
- Despise
- Despisedness
- Despisement
- Despiser
- Despisingly
- Despite
- Despiteful
- Despiteous
- Despiteously
- Despitous
- Despoil
- Despoiler
- Despoilment
- Despoliation
- Despond
- Despondence
- Despondency
- Despondent
- Desponder
- Despondingly
- Desponsage
- Desponsate
- Desponsation
- Desponsory
- Desport
- Despot
- Despotat
- Despotic; Despotical
- Despotism
- Despotist
- Despotize
- Despread
- Despumate
- Despumation
- Despume
- Desquamate
- Desquamation
- Desquamative; Desquamatory
- Desquamatory
- Dess
- Dessert
- Destemper
- Destin
- Destinable
- Destinably
- Destinal
- Destinate
- Destination
- Destine
- Destinist
- Destiny
- Destituent
- Destitute
- Destitutely
- Destituteness
- Destitution
- Destrer; Dextrer
- Destrie
- Destroy
- Destroyable
- Destroyer
- Destruct
- Destructibility
- Destructible
- Destructibleness
- Destruction
- Destructionist
- Destructive
- Destructively
- Destructiveness
- Destructor
- Destruie
- Desudation
- Desuete
- Desuetude
- Desulphurate
- Desulphuration
- Desulphurize
- Desultorily
- Desultoriness
- Desultorious
- Desultory
- Desume
- Desynonymization
- Desynonymize
- Detach
- Detachable
- Detached
- Detachment
- Detail
- Detailer
- Detain
- Detainder
- Detainer
- Detainment
- Detect
- Detectable; Detectible
- Detecter
- Detection
- Detective
- Detector
- Detector Bar
- Detenebrate
- Detent
- Detention
- Deter
- Deterge
- Detergency
- Detergent
- Deteriorate
- Deterioration
- Deteriority
- Determent
- Determinability
- Determinable
- Determinableness
- Determinacy
- Determinant
- Determinate
- Determinately
- Determinateness
- Determination
- Determinative
- Determinator
- Determine
- Determined
- Determinedly
- Determiner
- Determinism
- Determinist
- Deterration
- Deterrence
- Deterrent
- Detersion
- Detersive
- Detersively
- Detersiveness
- Detest
- Detestability
- Detestable
- Detestableness
- Detestably
- Detestate
- Detestation
- Detester
- Dethrone
- Dethronement
- Dethroner
- Dethronization
- Dethronize
- Detinue
- Detonate
- Detonating
- Detonation
- Detonator
- Detonization
2 entries 1 source
Desk
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.