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- deadbeat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
- death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
- degradations — Plural form of degradation.
- degringolade — a rapid descent or deterioration
- deradicalise — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- deradicalize — to free from radical ideas, goals, or elements: The more conservative politicians were trying to deradicalize the liberation movement.
- descamisados — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- diamond head — promontory in SE Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu, consisting of the rim of an extinct volcanic crater
- digitigrades — Plural form of digitigrade.
- digladiation — fighting with swords or hand-to-hand
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disgradation — a deposition of rank or status
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dress parade — a formal parade of sufficient ceremonial importance for the wearing of dress uniform
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
- edgar adrian — Edgar Douglas, 1889–1977, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- eighth grade — the eighth year of school, when students are 12 to 14 years old
- empty-headed — If you describe someone as empty-headed, you mean that they are not very intelligent and often do silly things.
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- export trade — the area of business or industry concerned with the export of goods or services
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
- faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- floor leader — the majority leader or minority leader in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- floor trader — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for his or her own account.
- flummadiddle — A baked main course pudding consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, and spices including cinnamon and allspice. It was a part of early American cuisine, especially in New England.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- free radical — an atom or molecule that bears an unpaired electron and is extremely reactive, capable of engaging in rapid chain reactions that destabilize other molecules and generate many more free radicals: in the body, deactivated by antioxidants, uric acid, and certain enzyme activities.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).