English dictionary: words starting with den - page 1

Meanings of Denaturing:

verb

Take away or alter the natural qualities of.

Usage examples:

This system denatures education

Meanings of Denazification:

noun

The process of bringing the leaders of the national socialist regime in germany to justice and of purging all elements of nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.

Usage examples:

By the time the war ended, riefenstahl had yet to edit the film and it was impounded during the den…

Meanings of Denazified:

verb

Remove nazi influence from.

Usage examples:

Stalin, roosevelt and churchill agree to denazify germany

Meanings of Denazifies:

verb

Remove nazi influence from.

Usage examples:

Stalin, roosevelt and churchill agree to denazify germany

Meanings of Denazify:

verb

Remove nazi influence from.

Usage examples:

Stalin, roosevelt and churchill agree to denazify germany

Meanings of Denazifying:

verb

Remove nazi influence from.

Usage examples:

Stalin, roosevelt and churchill agree to denazify germany

Meanings of Dendrite:

noun

A short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.

Usage examples:

Axons send signals to other cells and dendrites receive them.

Meanings of Dendrites:

noun

A short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.

Usage examples:

Axons send signals to other cells and dendrites receive them.

Meanings of Dendritic:

adjective

Having a branched form resembling a tree.

Usage examples:

Moss agate has a pale background colour with numerous darker dendritic patterns

Meanings of Dendrochronology:

noun

The science or technique of dating events, environmental change, and archaeological artefacts by using the characteristic patterns of annual growth rings in timber and tree trunks.

Usage examples:

At the tower's core is a massively strong timber frame, which dendrochronology has recently dated t…

Meanings of Dendroid:

adjective

(of a plant, marine invertebrate, or structure) tree-shaped; branching.

Usage examples:

The intermediate-level benthos was dominated by sponges, corals, giant bivalves, giant brachiopods,…

noun

A graptolite (fossil marine invertebrate) of a type that formed much-branched colonies, found chiefly in the ordovician and silurian periods.

Usage examples:

In the early ordovician, many-branched planktonic forms developed from the attached dendroids.

Meanings of Dendrology:

noun

The scientific study of trees.

Usage examples:

The process of naming plants and classifying them into those groupings is called nomenclature; the …

Meanings of Dendron:

noun

Another term for dendrite (sense 1).

Meanings of Dendrons:

noun

Another term for dendrite (sense 1).

Meanings of Dendrophile:

noun

A person who loves trees

Usage examples:

A passionate dendrophile, he talks about the characteristics of different trees as if describing pe…

Meanings of Dene:

noun

A vale, especially the deep, narrow wooded valley of a small river.

Usage examples:

Rottingdean

adjective

Relating to the dene or their languages.

Usage examples:

In 2002, 32 athletes went to the games in iqaluit and nuuk, and won 20 medals, nine in the inuit ga…

Meanings of Deneb:

proper noun

The brightest star in the constellation cygnus, a yellow supergiant.

Meanings of Denebola:

proper noun

The second-brightest star in the constellation leo.

Meanings of Denervate:

verb

Remove or cut off the nerve supply from (a body part or organ).

Usage examples:

Injury to the superior gluteal nerve may denervate the gluteus medius

Meanings of Denes:

noun

A vale, especially the deep, narrow wooded valley of a small river.

Usage examples:

Rottingdean

adjective

Relating to the dene or their languages.

Usage examples:

In 2002, 32 athletes went to the games in iqaluit and nuuk, and won 20 medals, nine in the inuit ga…

Meanings of Dengue:

noun

A debilitating viral disease of the tropics, transmitted by mosquitoes, and causing sudden fever and acute pains in the joints.

Usage examples:

Also, you have to look into diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and typhoid.

Meanings of Deniable:

adjective

Able to be denied.

Usage examples:

The audience pounced on a plausibly deniable slip of the tongue

Meanings of Denial:

noun

The action of denying something.

Usage examples:

She shook her head in denial

Meanings of Denials:

noun

The action of denying something.

Usage examples:

She shook her head in denial

Meanings of Denied:

verb

State that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of.

Usage examples:

Both firms deny any responsibility for the tragedy