Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Dearness (n.) Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
(2) - Dearness (n.) The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

(1) - Dearth (n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

(1) - Deary (n.) A dear; a darling.

(1) - Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
(2) - Death (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
(3) - Death (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
(4) - Death (v. i.) Danger of death.
(5) - Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
(6) - Death (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
(7) - Death (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
(8) - Death (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
(9) - Death (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

(1) - Deathbed (n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.