Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Degust (v. t.) To taste.

(1) - Degustation (n.) Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

(1) - Dehisce (v. i.) To gape; to open by dehiscence.

(1) - Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.
(2) - Dehiscence (n.) The act of gaping.

(1) - Dehiscent (a.) Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.