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Dentile

A small tooth, like that of a saw.

Dentilingual

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

Dentiloquist

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

Dentiloquy

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

Dentine

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.

Dentiphone

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

Dentirostral

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.

Dentist

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

Dentistry

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

Dentition

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

Dentoid

Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.

Denture

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

Denudation

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

Denude

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.

Denunciate

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.

Denunciator

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

Denunciatory

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

Denutrition

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

Deny

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

Denyingly

In the manner of one denies a request.

Deobstruct

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

Deobstruent

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.

Deodand

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.

Deodar

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.

Deodorization

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

Deodorize

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

Deodorizer

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

Deontology

The science which relates to duty or moral obligation.

Deoperculate

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

Deoppilate

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through.

Deoxidation

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

Deoxidize

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

Deoxidizer

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

deoxyribonucleic acid

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.

deoxyribonucleotide

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).

deoxyribose

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.

Depaint

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

Depart

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.

departed

past; -- used of time; as, departed summers.

Departer

One who refines metals by separation.

departing

leaving a starting or stopping point on a journey; as, Departing flights were delayed by the snowstorm. Opposite of arriving.

Depasture

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.

Depatriate

To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.

Depauperate

Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.

Depauperize

To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.

Depend

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

Dependable

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.

Dependence

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

Dependency

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

Dependent

One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.

Deperdit

That which is lost or destroyed.

Deperditely

Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.

Dephase

To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

Dephlegm

To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.

Dephlegmate

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

Dephlegmation

The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.

Dephlegmator

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

Dephlogisticcate

To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.

Depict

To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.

depicted

represented graphically by sketch or design or lines.

Depiction

A painting or depicting; a representation.

Depicture

To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.

Depilation

Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.

Depilatory

Having the quality or power of removing hair. An application used to take off hair.

Deplant

To take up (plants); to transplant.

Deplete

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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