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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

disinfection
noun treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms

disinfest
verb rid of vermin; `The exterminator disinfests the house`

disinfestation
noun the activity of getting rid of vermin

disinflation
noun a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments

disinformation
noun misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)

disingenuous
adjective not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; `an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time`- David Cannadine; `a disingenuous excuse`

disingenuously
adverb in a disingenuous manner; `disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent`s work`

disingenuousness
noun the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor

disinherit
disown verb prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

disinheritance
noun the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit

disinherited
adjective deprived of your rightful heritage

disintegrate
verb break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; `The material disintegrated`; `the group disintegrated after the leader died`

disintegrative
adjective tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts

disinter
exhume verb dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

disinterest
noun tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement

disinterested
adjective unaffected by self-interest

disinterestedly
without bias adverb without selfish motives; `he decided the case disinterestedly`

disinterestedness
noun freedom from bias or selfish motives

disinvestment
noun the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation

disinvolve
disembroil verb free from involvement or entanglement; `How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?`

disjoin
disjoint verb become separated, disconnected or disjoint

disjoined
adjective have the connection undone; having become separate

disjoint
adjective having no elements in common

disjoint
verb separate at the joints; `disjoint the chicken before cooking it`

disjointed
dislocated adjective separated at the joint; `a dislocated knee`; `a separated shoulder`

disjointedly
adverb in a disjointed manner; ``We`re not married, not really married,` she said, and slowly, reluctantly, disjointedly it came out`

disjointedness
noun lacking order or coherence

disjunct
adjective used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations; `disjunct distribution of king crabs`

disjunction
disjuncture noun state of being disconnected

disjunctive
adjective serving or tending to divide or separate

disjunctive conjunction
noun the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the disjunction of their meanings

disk
disc noun a flat circular plate

disk access
noun memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored

disk brake
disc brake noun hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads

disk cache
noun a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk

disk clutch
noun a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks

disk controller
noun (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive

disk drive
disc drive noun computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it

disk error
noun error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk

disk file
noun (computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label

disk harrow
disc harrow noun a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle

disk jockey
disc jockey noun a person who announces and plays popular recorded music

disk overhead
overhead noun (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing

disk pack
disc pack noun (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device

disk space
disc space noun (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk

disk-jockey
disc-jockey verb comment on music to be played; `He has a job disk-jockeying on the weekend`

diskette
floppy noun a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; `floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price`

dislikable
adjective such as to provoke dislike

dislike
noun a feeling of aversion or antipathy; `my dislike of him was instinctive`

disliked
adjective regarded with aversion; `he was intensely disliked`

dislocate
luxate verb move out of position; `dislocate joints`; `the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically`

dislocate
verb put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; `The colonists displaced the natives`

dislocation
disruption noun an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

dislodge
verb remove or force out from a position; `The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums`; `He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble`

dislodge
verb remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; `The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space`

dislodgment
dislodgement noun forced removal from a position of advantage

disloyal
adjective deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle; `disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers`

disloyally
adverb without loyalty; in a disloyal manner; `his men acted disloyally and betrayed him in the end`

disloyalty
noun the quality of being disloyal

dismally
adverb in a dreadful manner; `as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed`

dismally
adverb in a cheerless manner; `in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future`

dismantle
verb take off or remove; `strip a wall of its wallpaper`

dismantling
dismantlement noun the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); `Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons`

dismay
alarm verb fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; `I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview`; `The news of the executions horrified us`

dismember
verb separate the limbs from the body; `the tiger dismembered the tourist`

dismember
discerp verb divide into pieces; `our department was dismembered when our funding dried up`; `The Empire was discerped after the war`

dismemberment
taking apart noun the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces

dismiss
disregard verb bar from attention or consideration; `She dismissed his advances`

dismiss
send away 1 drop verb stop associating with; `They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock`

dismissal
dismission noun the termination of someone`s employment (leaving them free to depart)

dismissible
adjective subject to dismissal; `appointed and removable by the mayor`

dismissive
adjective showing indifference or disregard; `a dismissive shrug`

dismount
noun the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.)

Disney
Walt Disney noun United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)

Disneyland
noun an amusement park in Anaheim created in 1955 by Walt Disney

disobedience
noncompliance noun the failure to obey

disobedient
unruly adjective unwilling to submit to authority; `unruly teenagers`

disobediently
adverb in a disobedient manner; `he went ahead disobediently and did what his supervisor had warned him not to do`

disobey
verb refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; `He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired`

disoblige
verb ignore someone`s wishes

disobliging
uncooperative adjective intentionally unaccommodating; `the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging`

disorder
noun a disturbance of the peace or of public order

disordered
unordered adjective not arranged in order

disorderliness
noun a condition in which things are not in their expected places; `the files are in complete disorder`

disorderly
higgledy-piggledy adjective in utter disorder; `a disorderly pile of clothes`

disorderly conduct
disorderly behavior noun any act of molesting or interrupting or hindering or disquieting or agitating or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled

disorganization
disorganisation noun the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion; `the disorganization of the enemy troops by a flank attack`

disorganize
disorganise verb remove the organization from

disorganized
disorganised adjective lacking order or methodical arrangement or function; `a disorganized enterprise`; `a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose`; `she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate`

disorient
disorientate verb cause to be lost or disoriented

disorientation
freak out noun a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug)

disorienting
adjective causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings; `making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting`; `a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting`

disowned
repudiated adjective any connection is denied

disownment
disowning noun refusal to acknowledge as one`s own

disparage
belittle verb express a negative opinion of; `She disparaged her student`s efforts`

disparagement
dispraise noun the act of speaking contemptuously of

disparagingly
slightingly adverb in a disparaging manner; `these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story``

disparate
adjective including markedly dissimilar elements; `a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers`

disparateness
noun utter dissimilarity

disparity
noun inequality or difference in some respect