Words beginning with D

A part small enough to escape casual notice.

The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.

Alternative form of détente.

To prevent something from happening.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.

A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.

To set the boundaries or limits of.

Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.

The largest city and former capital of Michigan, United States, a major port on the Detroit River, known as the traditional automoti…

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Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges susp…

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The fifth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fifth book in the Torah.

A surname from German.

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Germany

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The removal or lessening of something's value.

To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.

The process of developing; growth, directed change.

A surname.

A surname from Anglo-Norman.

A surname from Anglo-Norman.

abnormal displacement of any wall that separates two chambers (usually in the nasal cavity)

The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.

A surname.

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