| ANTIDEFAMATION | • antidefamation adj. Opposing the defamation of a particular group. Chiefly in direct or oblique reference to the Anti-Defamation League. • ANTIDEFAMATION adj. designed to counter defamation. |
| DEFENESTRATION | • defenestration n. The act of throwing something or someone out of a window. • defenestration n. (Britain) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization. • defenestration n. (Computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in… |
| DEFORESTATIONS | • deforestations n. Plural of deforestation. • DEFORESTATION n. the act of clearing forests. |
| DENITRIFICATOR | • denitrificator n. Synonym of denitrator. • DENITRIFICATOR n. an agent that denitrifies. |
| DETOXIFICATION | • detoxification n. The process of removing toxins. • DETOXIFICATION n. the act of detoxifying. |
| DIFFERENTIATOR | • differentiator n. Anything that differentiates, or causes differentiation (in any sense); a distinguishing feature. • DIFFERENTIATOR n. someone who or that which differentiates. |
| DIFFRACTOMETER | • diffractometer n. A device that uses diffraction (especially X-ray diffraction) to investigate the structure of matter. • DIFFRACTOMETER n. an instrument for determining structure of crystal through light diffraction. |
| DIFFRACTOMETRY | • diffractometry n. The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction. • DIFFRACTOMETRY n. measurement by diffractometer. |
| DISFORESTATION | • disforestation n. Archaic form of deforestation. • DISFORESTATION n. the act of disforesting. |
| DISINFESTATION | • disinfestation n. The act or process of disinfesting. • DISINFESTATION n. the act of disinfesting. |
| IDENTIFICATION | • identification n. (Strictly) The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing). • identification n. (Broadly, often) The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity… • identification n. The state of being identified. |
| PERFECTIONATED | • perfectionated v. Simple past tense and past participle of perfectionate. • PERFECTIONATE v. to bring to perfection. |
| TETRAFLUORIDES | • tetrafluorides n. Plural of tetrafluoride. • TETRAFLUORIDE n. a fluoride containing four atoms of fluorine. |
| UNFRACTIONATED | • unfractionated adj. Not fractionated. |