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5,971- Deserving
- Deshabille
- Desiccant
- Desiccate
- Desiccation
- Desiccative
- Desiccator
- Desiccatory
- Desiderable
- Desiderata
- Desiderate
- Desideration
- Desiderative
- Desideratum
- Desidiose; Desidious
- Desidiousness
- Desight
- Desightment
- Design
- Designable
- Designate
- Designation
- Designative
- Designator
- Designatory
- Designedly
- Designer
- Designful
- Designing
- Designless
- Designment
- Desilver
- Desilverization
- Desilverize
- Desinence
- Desinent
- Desinential
- Desipient
- Desirability
- Desirable
- Desirableness
- Desirably
- Desire
- Desire of all nations
- Desireful
- Desirefulness
- Desireless
- Desirer
- Desirous
- Desirously
- Desirousness
- Desist
- Desistance
- Desistive
- Desition
- Desitive
- Desk
- Deskwork
- Desman
- Desmid; Desmidian
- Desmine
- Desmobacteria
- Desmodont
- Desmognathous
- Desmoid
- Desmology
- Desmomyaria
- Desolate
- Desolately
- Desolateness
- Desolater
- Desolation
- DESOLATION, ABOMINATION OF
- Desolator
- Desolatory
- Desophisticate
- Desoxalic
- Despair
- Despairer
- Despairful
- Despairing
- Desparple
- Despatch
- Despecificate
- Despecification
- Despect
- Despection
- Despeed
- Despend
- Desperado
- Desperate
- Desperately
- Desperateness
- Desperation
- Despicability
- Despicable
- Despicableness
- Despicably
- Despiciency
- Despisable
- Despisal
- Despise
- Despisedness
- Despisement
- Despiser
- Despisingly
- Despite
- Despiteful
- Despiteous
- Despiteously
- Despitous
- Despoil
- Despoiler
- Despoilment
- Despoliation
- Despond
- Despondence
- Despondency
- Despondent
- Desponder
- Despondingly
- Desponsage
- Desponsate
- Desponsation
- Desponsory
- Desport
- Despot
- Despotat
- Despotic; Despotical
- Despotism
- Despotist
- Despotize
- Despread
- Despumate
- Despumation
- Despume
- Desquamate
- Desquamation
- Desquamative; Desquamatory
- Desquamatory
- Dess
- Dessert
- Destemper
- Destin
- Destinable
- Destinably
- Destinal
- Destinate
- Destination
- Destine
- Destinist
- Destiny
- Destituent
- Destitute
- Destitutely
- Destituteness
- Destitution
- Destrer; Dextrer
- Destrie
- Destroy
- Destroyable
- Destroyer
- Destruct
- Destructibility
- Destructible
- Destructibleness
- Destruction
- Destruction, City of
- Destructionist
- Destructive
- Destructively
- Destructiveness
- Destructor
- Destruie
- Desudation
- Desuete
- Desuetude
- Desulphurate
- Desulphuration
- Desulphurize
- Desultorily
- Desultoriness
- Desultorious
- Desultory
- Desume
- Desynonymization
- Desynonymize
- Detach
- Detachable
- Detached
- Detachment
- Detail
- Detailer
- Detain
- Detainder
- Detainer
- Detainment
- Detect
- Detectable; Detectible
- Detecter
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Deserving
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving or act. -- De*serv"ing*ly, adv.