| DETERIORATE | • deteriorate v. (Transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair. • deteriorate v. (Intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. • DETERIORATE v. to make inferior in quality or value. |
| DETERIORITY | • deteriority n. A worse quality or state; inferiority. • DETERIORITY n. (obsolete) worseness. |
| DETRITIVORE | • detritivore n. (Ecology) An organism that feeds on detritus; a detrivore, a saprophage. |
| DETRITOVORE | • detritovore n. Misspelling of detritivore. • DETRITOVORE n. an organism that feeds on detritus. |
| DIRECTORATE | • directorate n. An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department. • directorate n. A body of directors. • DIRECTORATE n. the office of director. |
| DISSERTATOR | • dissertator n. One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. • DISSERTATOR n. one who writes a dissertation. |
| DISTRACTORS | • distractors n. Plural of distractor. • DISTRACTOR n. any of the incorrect choices in a multiple choice question. |
| DISTRIBUTOR | • distributor n. One who or that which distributes. • distributor n. A device that distributes electric current, especially to the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine. • distributor n. (Printing, historical) A machine for distributing type. |
| INTERDICTOR | • interdictor n. (Military) An aircraft designed to bomb enemy supply operations. • INTERDICTOR n. one who interdicts. |
| INTROVERTED | • introverted v. Simple past tense and past participle of introvert. • introverted adj. Turned or thrust inward, particularly… • INTROVERT v. to turn inwards. |
| RETARDATION | • retardation n. The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance. • retardation n. The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness. • retardation n. (Colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity. |
| RETRODICTED | • retrodicted v. Simple past tense and past participle of retrodict. • RETRODICT v. to utilize present information or ideas to infer or explain (a past event or state of affairs). |
| RETROFITTED | • retrofitted v. Simple past tense and past participle of retrofit. • retrofitted adj. Fitted or installed at a later date. • retro-fitted adj. Alternative spelling of retrofitted. |
| STRIDULATOR | • stridulator n. That which stridulates. • STRIDULATOR n. an insect that makes a sound by scraping. |
| TERRITORIED | • territoried adj. Possessed of territory. • TERRITORIED adj. having territory. |
| TORRIDITIES | • torridities n. Plural of torridity. • TORRIDITY n. torridness. |
| TRADITIONER | • traditioner n. One who adheres to tradition. • TRADITIONER n. a person who adheres to tradition, also TRADITIONIST. |
| TRAITORHOOD | • traitorhood n. The quality of being a traitor. • TRAITORHOOD n. the state of being a traitor. |
| TREPIDATORY | • trepidatory adj. That trepidates, or that causes trepidations. • trepidatory adj. Of an earthquake, having a vertical, up-and-down motion, as opposed to a horizontal, side-to-side motion. • TREPIDATORY adj. causing trepidation, trembling; alarmed agitation. |