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dessin assisté par ordinateur: computer-aided drawing
dessinateur: designer, draughtsman; cartoonist, drawer
dessiner: to draw, to sketch; to draw up, to design; to take shape, to appear slowly
dessoler: "(agri.) to unsole (animals); to take off the sole; to change the usual order of the cultivation of land"
dessouder: to unsolder; to murder
dessouler: to sober up
dessous: underneath; beneath
dessous: underside; bottom; disadvantage; (women's) underwear; hidden agenda
dessous: under; beneath
dessous de bras: underarm, armpit
dessous de verre: coaster (for cups)
dessous-de-bras: dress shield
dessous-de-table: bribe
dessoûler: Pre-1990 spelling of dessouler.
dessuintage: removal of lanolin (from wool)
dessus: on (it); on top (of it); upstairs; over (it)
dessus: on, on top of
dessus: upside; top side; the upper hand; advantage; dessus
dessus du panier: the best of the bunch, the pick of the litter, the cream of the crop, the upper crust, the top of the barrel
dessèchement: drying (out)
desséchant: desiccant, drying
dessécher: to dry, to dry out; to dry out
desséché: dried out, desiccated
destin: destiny, fate
destinataire: recipient, addressee
destination: destination
destiner: to destine, to fate, to mean for
destinée: destiny, fate
destituer: to discharge, to relieve (one from their duty), to depose (someone from the throne)
destitution: discharge, dismissal; deposition (of a politician etc.); impeachment
destourien: Relating to the socialist party in power in Tunisia following independence
destrier: destrier
destroyer: destroyer (warship)
destroyer: to destroy
destructeur: destructive
destructeur: destroyer, destructor (that who/which destroys); destructor
destructible: destructible
destructif: destructive
destruction: destruction
destruction mutuelle assurée: mutual assured destruction, mutually assured destruction
destruxine: destruxin
dette: debt
dette fournisseur: account payable (amount of money that is owed by a customer to its suppliers of goods and services and is counted by the customer as a current unpaid debt)
dette publique: national debt, domestic debt
deuil: bereavement; mourning; mourning (clothes); funeral procession
deusio: alternative spelling of deuxio
deuspi: speed (quickness, rapidity)
deuton: deuteron
deutoxide: deutoxide
deutoxyde: deutoxide
deutschemark: Deutsche Mark (former currency unit of Germany)
deutéragoniste: deuteragonist
deutérium: deuterium
deutérocanonique: deuterocanonical
deutérogame: deuterogamous
deutérogame: deuterogamist
deutérogamie: deuterogamy
deutéron: deuteron
deutérure: deuteride
deutéré: deuterated