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English words starting with deu

Meanings of Deucalion:

proper noun

The son of prometheus. with his wife pyrrha he survived a flood sent by zeus to punish human wickedness; they were then instructed to throw stones over their shoulders, and these turned into humans to repopulate the world.

Deuce

djuːs

Meanings of Deuce:

noun

The two on dice or playing cards.

Usage examples:

A doctored die having two deuces

Meanings of Deuced:

adjective

Used for emphasis, especially to express disapproval or frustration.

Usage examples:

I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter

Deuces

djuːs

Meanings of Deuces:

noun

The two on dice or playing cards.

Usage examples:

A doctored die having two deuces

Meanings of Deus:

noun

An unnatural or very unlikely end to a story or event, that solves or removes any problems too easily

Deuteragonist

ˌdjuːtəˈraɡənɪst

Meanings of Deuteragonist:

noun

The person second in importance to the protagonist in a drama.

Usage examples:

The first actor was the protagonist, the second the deuteragonist, and the third the tritagonist.

Meanings of Deuteranope:

noun

A person suffering from deuteranopia.

Usage examples:

The major difference between protanopes and deuteranopes is in their sensitivity to colored lights.

Deuteranopia

ˌdjuːt(ə)rəˈnəʊpɪə

Meanings of Deuteranopia:

noun

Colour blindness resulting from insensitivity to green light, causing confusion of greens, reds, and yellows.

Usage examples:

The genetic cause has been determined for several color vision defects, achromatopsia (the loss of …

Meanings of Deuteric:

adjective

Relating to or denoting alteration of the minerals of an igneous rock during the later stages of consolidation.

Usage examples:

Although such grains would have low curie points of c.250 deg c they invariably undergo subsolidus …

Meanings of Deuterium:

noun

A stable isotope of hydrogen with a mass approximately twice that of the usual isotope.

Usage examples:

The most easily attained fusion reaction involves fusing nuclei of the two isotopes of hydrogen, de…

Deuterocanonical

ˌdjuːtərəʊkəˈnɒnɪk(ə)l

Meanings of Deuterocanonical:

adjective

(of sacred books or literary works) forming a secondary canon.

Usage examples:

I had difficulty accepting scobie's reasoning for not including the deuterocanonical books as a leg…

Deuteron

ˈdjuːtərɒn

Meanings of Deuteron:

noun

The nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of a proton and a neutron.

Usage examples:

The wave functions of both the deuteron and the alpha particle are invariant under the interchange …

Meanings of Deuteronomy:

proper noun

The fifth book of the bible, containing a recapitulation of the ten commandments and much of the mosaic law.

Meanings of Deuterons:

noun

The nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of a proton and a neutron.

Usage examples:

The wave functions of both the deuteron and the alpha particle are invariant under the interchange …

Meanings of Deuterostome:

noun

A deuterostomatous animal; also as adjective.

Meanings of Deutsche:

noun

The main german stock market, based in frankfurt

Deutzia

ˈdjuːtsɪə

Meanings of Deutzia:

noun

An ornamental shrub with white or pinkish flowers, native to asia and central america.

Usage examples:

Spring-flowering shrubs include such popular plants as forsythia, deutzia, lilac, viburnum, mock-or…

Meanings of Deux:

abbreviation

Delaware (in official postal use).

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