Letter: d
- derogation, attrition, belittling, comedown, contempt, curtailment, cut, cutting, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrease, decrement

- derogative, abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, derisory, derogatory

- derogatory, abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, debasing, defamatory, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative

- derrick, antenna tower, belfry, bell tower, campanile, colossus, column, crab, crane, cupola, dome, erector, fire tower, forklift, gantry crane, hoist

- dervish, Franciscan, abstainer, anchorite, ascetic, fakir, hajji, hermit, imam, mendicant, mufti, mullah, puritan, sheikh, yogi, yogin

- descant, absolute music, accompaniment, adaptation, air, aleatory, aleatory music, alto, amplify, anthem, aria, arrangement, article, ballad, baritone, bass

- descend from, accrue, arise, depend on, derive from, emanate, emerge, flow, germinate from, get, grow from, hang on, hinge, proceed, result, rise

- descend on, ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend, descend upon, fall upon, gang up on, go at

- descend to particulars, anatomize, atomize, cite, detail, document, individualize, instance, itemize, particularize, personalize, precise, specialize, specify, spell out, substantiate

- descend upon, alight upon, ambush, assail, assault, attack, blitz, bushwhack, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, drop on, fall on, fall upon, gang up on

- descend, advance, alight, ascend, assault, attack, back, back up, bank, budge, cant, careen, cascade, cataract, change, change hands

- descendant, aftermath, backup man, breed, brood, by-product, child, children, conclusion, consequence, daughter, derivative, descendants, descent, dynasty, effect

- descendants, breed, brood, child, children, descendant, descent, family, fruit, heir, house, inheritor, issue, kid, lineage, offspring

- descender, back, beard, belly, bevel, body, cap, capital, case, counter, face, font, groove, italic, letter, ligature

- descending, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, collapsing, deciduous, declined, declining, descendant, dipping, down, down-reaching, down-trending, downgrade

- descent on, aggression, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, counter-attack, diversion, drive, infiltration, mugging, offence, offensive, onset, onslaught

- descent, Indian file, abasement, advance, affiliation, altitude peak, angular motion, array, articulation, ascending, ascent, automatic control, axial motion, backing, backward motion, bank

- describable, accountable, explicable, interpretable

- describe a circle, circle, circuit, circulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, cycle, encircle, encompass, flank, girdle, go about, go around, lap, orbit

- describe, be characteristic, bring to life, character, characterize, chronicle, construe, define, delineate, demarcate, depict, detail, diagnose, differentiate, distinguish, draw

- description, account, anecdote, blood, brand, breed, cast, category, character, characterization, chronicle, clan, class, colour, commentary, construction

- descriptive geometry, analysis, arithmetic, mathematics, trigonometry

- descriptive linguistics, derivation, etymology, grammar, linguistics, morphology, palaeography, philology, phonetics, phonology, semantics

- descriptive, constructional, constructive, delineative, diagnostic, exegetic, expressive, faithful, graphic, interpretive, lexicographic, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, metalinguistic, morphological

- descry, appreciate, behold, catch, catch sight of, clap eyes on, come alive, comprehend, detect, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, glimpse, have in sight

- desecrate, abuse, adulterate, alloy, befoul, canker, cheapen, coarsen, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile

- desecration, abomination, abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, blasphemousness, blasphemy, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, disgrace, diversion, embezzlement, fouling

- desensitize, anaesthetize, benumb, besot, blunt, chloroform, deaden, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff

- desensitized, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, benumbed, blah, comatose, detached, disinterested, dull, heartless, hopeless, indifferent, languid, lethargic, listless

- desert fathers, anchorite, ascetic, hermit, homebody, invalid, isolationist, loner, outcast, pariah, recluse, shut in, solitary
