| BIDETS | • bidets n. Plural of bidet. • BIDET n. (French) a shallow oval basin used for washing esp. the genital and anal regions. |
| CADETS | • cadets n. Plural of cadet. • Cadets prop.n. Plural of Cadet. • CADET n. a student at a military school. |
| DETACH | • detach v. (Transitive) To take apart from; to take off. • detach v. (Transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use. • detach v. (Intransitive) To come off something. |
| DETAIL | • detail n. (Countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice. • detail n. (Uncountable) A profusion of details. • detail n. (Uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice. |
| DETAIN | • detain v. (Transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. • detain v. (Transitive) To put under custody. • detain v. (Transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold. |
| DETECT | • detect v. To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing. • detect adj. (Obsolete) Detected. • detect v. (Intransitive, informal) To work or solve cases as a detective. |
| DETENT | • detent n. That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch (stopping mechanism), pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork… • detent v. The action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement. • DETENT n. any stop or catch in a machine which prevents a motion until released, e.g. on a crossbow. |
| DETENU | • DETENU n. (French) a (male) prisoner, esp. a political prisoner in India. |
| DETERS | • deters v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deter. • Deters prop.n. A surname. • Deters prop.n. Plural of Deter. |
| DETEST | • detest v. (Transitive) To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe. • detest v. (Transitive, obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. • DETEST v. to hate intensely. |
| DETICK | • detick v. (Transitive) to remove ticks (parasitic arachnids) from. • DETICK v. to free from ticks. |
| DETORT | • detort v. To turn from the original or plain meaning. • detort v. To pervert. • detort v. To wrest. |
| DETOUR | • detour n. A diversion or deviation from one’s original route. • detour n. (Programming) The diversion of the flow of execution for debugging or similar purposes. • detour v. (Intransitive) To make a detour. |
| DETUNE | • detune v. (Music) To intentionally lower or raise the pitch produced by a musical instrument. Often done to produce… • detune v. (Electronics) To alter the capacitance of a circuit such that its resonant frequency differs from the… • DETUNE v. to reduce the power of a car engine. |
| GODETS | • godets n. Plural of godet. • GODET n. (French) a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a skirt. |
| SYNDET | • syndet n. A synthetic detergent, as opposed to a natural soap. • SYNDET n. a synthetic detergent. |
| VERDET | • VERDET n. copper acetate. |