Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Decortication (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

(1) - Decorum (n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.

(1) - Decoy (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
(2) - Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
(3) - Decoy (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
(4) - Decoy (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
(5) - Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.

(1) - Decoyer (n.) One who decoys another.

(1) - Decrease (v.) The wane of the moon.
(2) - Decrease (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(3) - Decrease (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(4) - Decrease (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.