Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Descender (n.) One who descends.

(1) - Descendible (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.
(2) - Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

(1) - Descent (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
(2) - Descent (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
(3) - Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
(4) - Descent (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
(5) - Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
(6) - Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
(7) - Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
(8) - Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
(9) - Descent (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
(10) - Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

(1) - Describable (a.) That can be described; capable of description.

(1) - Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
(2) - Describe (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
(3) - Describe (v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
(4) - Describe (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.