| APODEICTICAL | • apodeictical adj. (Logic) apodeictic. • APODEICTICAL adj. (archaic) necessarily true, also APODEICTIC, APODICTIC, APODICTICAL. | 
| CAESALPINOID | • CAESALPINOID adj. belonging to the Caesalpinoidea, a tropical subfamily of leguminous plants. | 
| CARDIOPLEGIA | • cardioplegia n. (Surgery) The deliberate, temporary cessation of cardiac activity before heart surgery. • CARDIOPLEGIA n. deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out. | 
| DEACTIVATION | • deactivation n. The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb or alarm. • DEACTIVATION n. the process of deactivating. | 
| DECAPITATION | • decapitation n. Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating. • decapitation n. The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization. • decapitation n. (Politics) The unseating of a senior politician. | 
| DEDICATIONAL | • DEDICATIONAL adj. of the nature of a dedication. | 
| DEDICATORIAL | • dedicatorial adj. Dedicatory. • DEDICATORIAL adj. related to dedication. | 
| DEGLACIATION | • deglaciation n. (Climatology, paleontology) The removal of all glacial land ice from a region, usually by melting. • DEGLACIATION n. the melting of ice due to the retreat of a glacier. | 
| DERACINATION | • deracination n. The act of deracinating; uprooting. • DERACINATION n. the act of deracinating. | 
| DILACERATION | • dilaceration n. (Dentistry) An angular distortion affecting a tooth. • dilaceration n. The act or process of dilacerating; tearing to pieces. • DILACERATION n. a bend in a tooth resulting from an injury during its growth causing it to grow at an angle. | 
| DISASSOCIATE | • disassociate v. To separate (oneself); to dissolve one’s association with a person, group, or situation. • disassociate v. (Transitive) To separate into smaller discrete units, as with analysis. • disassociate v. (Intransitive, of linked components) To separate; to disunite; to disintegrate; to dissolve. | 
| ERADICATIONS | • eradications n. Plural of eradication. • ERADICATION n. the act of eradicating. | 
| PAEDOPHILIAC | • paedophiliac n. A person who is sexually attracted to children; a paedophile. • paedophiliac adj. Relating to paedophilia or to a paedophile. • pædophiliac adj. Alternative spelling of paedophiliac. | 
| PARAPERIODIC | • PARAPERIODIC adj. as in paraperiodic acid. | 
| RATIOCINATED | • ratiocinated v. Simple past tense and past participle of ratiocinate. • RATIOCINATE v. to reason or argue logically. |