(transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
countershading
countershading
noun
A pattern of animal colouration, existing as a form of camouflage, characterised by darker pigmentation of the upper side and lighter of the underside.
daughterless
daughterless
adj
Without a daughter.
daughterliness
daughterliness
noun
The quality of being daughterly.
daughters
daughters
noun
plural of daughter
daughtership
daughtership
noun
The position or state of being a daughter.
dermatophagus
desmognathous
desmognathous
adj
(zoology) having the maxillopalatine bones united; applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, such as ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds
desulphurating
desulphurating
verb
present participle of desulphurate
dishabituating
dishabituating
verb
present participle of dishabituate
distinguishability
distinguishability
noun
The state of being distinguishable.
distinguishable
distinguishable
adj
Able, or easily able to be distinguished.
distinguishableness
distinguishableness
noun
The state or quality of being distinguishable.
distinguishably
distinguishably
adv
In a distinguishable way
distraught
distraught
adj
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
Mad; insane.
distraughted
distraughted
adj
Obsolete form of distracted.
distraughtly
distraughtly
adv
In a distraught manner.
draughthouse
draughtiest
draughtiest
adj
superlative form of draughty: most draughty
draughtiness
draughtiness
noun
Britain standard spelling of draftiness.
draughtmanship
draughtmanship
noun
Alternative form of draughtsmanship
draughts
draughts
noun
(board games, Britain, Australia, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
A mild vesicatory.
plural of draught
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught
draughtsboard
draughtsboard
noun
The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
draughtsman
draughtsman
noun
(obsolete) A book illustrator.
(obsolete) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans.
A piece in the game of draughts (checkers).
draughtsmanship
draughtsmanship
noun
UK standard spelling of draftsmanship.
draughtsmen
draughtsmen
noun
plural of draughtsman
draughtswoman
draughtswoman
noun
Alternative spelling of draftswoman
draughtswomanship
draughtswomanship
noun
draughtsmanship by a woman
dreadnoughts
dreadnoughts
noun
plural of dreadnought
dromaeognathous
dromaeognathous
adj
(ornithology) Possessing a palatal structure akin to the emu and the other (now extinct) species of the genus Dromaius.
duodenocholangitis
gesithcundman
gnathopodous
goddaughters
goddaughters
noun
plural of goddaughter
graduateship
graduateship
noun
The state of being a graduate.
granddaughters
granddaughters
noun
plural of granddaughter
hydatigenous
hydatogenous
indistinguishability
indistinguishability
noun
The state of being indistinguishable
indistinguishable
indistinguishable
adj
Not capable of being perceived or known.
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
noun
Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
indistinguishableness
indistinguishableness
noun
The state or quality of being indistinguishable.
indistinguishably
indistinguishably
adv
(archaic) Indiscriminately.
In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
magnetofluidmechanics
nondistinguishable
nondistinguishable
adj
indistinguishable
nondistinguishableness
nondistinguishably
odontognathous
odontognathous
adj
Having toothlike ridges on the jaw
overdistraught
pseudoanthropological
pseudoanthropology
pseudoparthenogenesis
roughheartedness
slaughterdom
slaughterdom
noun
Slaughter; carnage.
slaughtered
slaughtered
adj
(informal) Extremely drunk.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of slaughter
slaughteryard
staghound
staghound
noun
Any of several large dogs once bred to hunt stags.
stepdaughter
stepdaughter
noun
The daughter of one's spouse and not of oneself.
stepdaughters
stepdaughters
noun
plural of stepdaughter
subdiaphragmatic
subdiaphragmatic
adj
Below the diaphragm
subdiaphragmatically
sulphindigotate
sulphindigotate
noun
(organic chemistry) A salt or ester of sulphindigotic acid.
sulphoindigotate
superdreadnought
superdreadnought
noun
A battleship of a class more powerful than the earlier dreadnoughts.
thousandweight
turbosupercharged
undaughterliness
undergraduateship
undergraduateship
noun
The position or condition of an undergraduate.
undergraduatish
undergraduatish
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an undergraduate.
undersheathing
undispatching
undispatching
verb
present participle of undispatch
undistinguishable
undistinguishable
adj
Imperceptible; indistinct.
Indistinguishable.
undistinguishableness
undistinguishableness
noun
(rare) The quality of being undistinguishable; indistinguishability, indistinctness.
undistinguishably
undistinguishably
adv
In a way that cannot be distinguished.
undistraught
undistraught
adj
Not distraught; untroubled.
unfarsighted
unslaughtered
unslaughtered
adj
Not slaughtered.
unstraightened
unstraightened
adj
Not straightened.
unstraightforward
unstraightforward
adj
Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.
unstraightforwardness
unstraightforwardness
noun
The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.