A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.

One imbued with a denominational spirit.

In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.

A denominative name or term; denominative verb.

By denomination.

One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.

Capable of being denoted or marked.

To mark off; to denote.

The marking off or separation of anything.

Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

the actual object referred to by a linguistic expression.

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.

Sign; indication.

Serving to denote.

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.

One who denounces, or declares, as a menace.

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.

In a dense, compact manner.

The quality of being dense; density.

an increase in the density of something.

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.

an instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.

measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.

The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

a genus usually included in genus Cardamine; in some classifications considered a separate genus.

Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth. The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.

Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.

Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.

Formation of teeth; toothed form.

Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Same as Dentil.

An ornamental tooling like lace.

Modillions.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percid/.

The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

A small tooth or projecting point.

Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth.

Bearing teeth; dentigerous.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.

A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

Formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed. A dentilabial sound or letter.

Toothed.

Dentition.

A wash for cleaning the teeth.

A small tooth, like that of a saw.

Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed. A dentilingual sound or letter.

One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed.

The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.

The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

To breed or cut new teeth.

Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.

Dentilingual.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

To denude.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands; the hurricane denuded the trees.

that can be counted.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

Same as Denunciatory.

One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

In the manner of one denies a request.

To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.

Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.

A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

A gift or offering to God.

A deodorizer.

The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.

To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.

To unload; to disburden.

Pertaining to deontology.

One versed in deontology.

The science which relates to duty or moral obligation.

Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through.

Removal of whatever stops up the passages.

Deobstruent; aperient.

Disorder; dissoluteness.

To kiss warmly.

To deoxidize.

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidation.

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.

To deoxidize.

The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

To deoxidize.

a nucleic acid, usually of very high molecular weight, consisting of a linear sequence of monomer units of deoxyribonucleotides, occurring in most organisms in pairs of strands, wound together in the form of a double helix; it is the main component of chromosomes and contains the genetic information which is the basis of heredity, transmitted from parent to progeny, and found in all living organisms except for certain viruses which have RNA as their basic genetic material; -- usually referred to by the acronym DNA.

an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose. Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms. The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are thymidine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated TMP), deoxyadenosine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated dAMP), deoxyguanosine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated dGMP), and deoxycytidine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated dCMP).

a pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.

same as deoxyribonucleic acid.

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.

One who depaints.

In God's name; certainly.