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dégât des eaux: water damage; an incident, such as a burst pipe or overflowing tub, that causes water damage
dégénératif: degenerative
dégénération: degeneration
dégénérer: to degenerate; to take a turn for the worse, to go south
dégénérescence: degeneration
dégénérescent: That has become degenerate
dégénéré: a degenerate
dégénéré: degenerate (all senses)
déhanchement: lopsidedness; swaying hips
déhancher: to wiggle one's hips, sway one's hips
déhanché: lopsided
déhanché: movement of the pelvis making the hips salient; technique of tilting the body when taking a curve in a motorcycle race; body attitude meant to enhance the silhouette by making the hips stand out; movement of the hips and legs
déharnachement: unharnessing
déharnacher: to unharness
déhiscent: dehiscent (which dehisces)
déhouiller: to remove coal from
déhydratant: dehydrating, drying
déhydrogénation: dehydrogenation
déicide: of deicide (killing of a god); deicidal
déicide: deicide
déictique: deictic
déification: deification
déifier: to deify
déifique: deific
déisme: deism
déiste: deist
déiste: deist
déité: deity; god
déjanter: to come off the rim; to go crazy; to lose it
déjanté: crazy, nutty; eccentric
déjection: dejection, defecation
déjeté: lopsided; crooked
déjeuner: to lunch, to eat lunch, to have lunch; to have breakfast
déjeuner: lunch, luncheon; breakfast
déjeunette: brunch; short, not long baguette
déjeuneur: a person eating lunch
déjoindre: "to disjoin (stone, wood)"; to become disjoined
déjouer: to foil, to thwart, to frustrate
déjudiciarisation: dejudicialization
déjudiciariser: to dejudicialize
déjuger: to reverse a judgement
déjà: already, before; again (following a question); for a start, firstly
déjà-vu: déjà vu
dékoulakisation: dekulakization
dékoulakiser: to dekulakize
délabialiser: to delabialize
délabrement: dilapidation, disrepair
délabrer: to destroy, to ruin, (of a building) to dilapidate; to fall into ruin, become dilapidated
délabré: dilapidated (having fallen into a state of disrepair)
délacer: to unlace (undo laces)
délai: time limit; extension (extra time to complete a task)
délai de livraison: lead time (the time required before something can be provided or delivered)
délaissement: abandonment, desertion, neglect, dereliction
délaisser: to abandon, to forsake; to leave (give up possession of)
délaissé: abandoned, forsaken
délaiter: to skim off buttermilk
délaiteuse: skimmer
délaminer: to delaminate
délardement: splay, slope
délarder: to splay