Name Report For First Name DESTAN:

DESTAN

First name DESTAN's origin is French. DESTAN means "by the still waters. a surname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DESTAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of destan.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with DESTAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with DESTAN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming DESTAN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DESTAN AS A WHOLE:

destanee

NAMES RHYMING WITH DESTAN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (estan) - Names That Ends with estan:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (stan) - Names That Ends with stan:

christan aethelstan drystan dustan stan thurstan tristan trystan dristan athelstan dunstan

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (tan) - Names That Ends with tan:

tan sultan nechtan vartan gaetan wotan zoltan botan aitan brentan brittan chattan etan jonatan macartan macnachtan bittan andettan atyhtan tobrytan tretan

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:

achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian abdiraxman aman hassan labaan taban aidan germian willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shaaban shoukran aban abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan

NAMES RHYMING WITH DESTAN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (desta) - Names That Begins with desta:

desta

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (dest) - Names That Begins with dest:

destin destina destine destinee destini destinie destiny deston destrey destrie destry

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (des) - Names That Begins with des:

des desanka desarae desaree desdemona deshawn desideria desiderio desilyn desirae desirat desire desiree desirey desm desma desmona desmond desyre

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:

dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere dechtire decla declan dedr dedre dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandra deeann deeanna deedra deegan deems deen deena deerwa deerward defena dehaan deheune deianira deidra deidre deiene deikun deina deiphobus deirdra deirdre deja

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DESTAN:

First Names which starts with 'de' and ends with 'an':

delman deman derian derrian derwan devan

First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':

dacian daegan daelan daelyn daelynn daemon dagan dagen dagian daijon dailyn daimhin daimmen dain dainan dairion dalan dalen dallan dallen dallin dallon dalon dalston dalton dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damian damiean damien damon dan danathon daniel-sean dann dannon danon danton danylynn daran dareen daren darien darin darleen darolyn daron darrellyn darren darrin darron darryn dartagnan darton darvin darwin darwyn darylyn daryn daveen daveon davian davidson davin davion davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton dayveon delbin delmon delron delsin delton delvin delvon demason demogorgon demophon den deneen dennison denton

English Words Rhyming DESTAN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DESTAN AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DESTAN (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (estan) - English Words That Ends with estan:


avestannoun (n.) The language of the Avesta; -- less properly called Zend.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta.


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (stan) - English Words That Ends with stan:


augustannoun (n.) Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times.
 noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.

capstannoun (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.

mangostannoun (n.) A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

sacristannoun (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tan) - English Words That Ends with tan:


acritannoun (n.) An individual of the Acrita.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.

acropolitanadjective (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis.

argentannoun (n.) An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver.

caftannoun (n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.
 verb (v. t.) To clothe with a caftan.

charlatannoun (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

cosmopolitannoun (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite

cretannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.

habitannoun (n.) Same as Habitant, 2.

harmattannoun (n.) A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.

laputanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.

mahometannoun (n.) See Mohammedan.

mahumetannoun (n.) Alt. of Mahumetanism

mannitannoun (n.) A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.

mercaptannoun (n.) Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.

metropolitannoun (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
 noun (n.) An archbishop.
 noun (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.

moutannoun (n.) The Chinese tree peony (Paeonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.

neapolitannoun (n.) A native or citizen of Naples.
 adjective (a.) Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy.

nehushtannoun (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.

nicolaitannoun (n.) One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.

orvietannoun (n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.

quartannoun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
 noun (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
 noun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
 noun (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

quintannoun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
 noun (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
 adjective (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
 adjective (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.

partannoun (n.) An edible British crab.

platannoun (n.) The plane tree.

puritannoun (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.
 noun (n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.

rambutannoun (n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.

ratannoun (n.) See Rattan.

rattannoun (n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.

samaritannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.

satannoun (n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.

spartannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.

sultannoun (n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.

sumpitannoun (n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

shaitannoun (n.) Alt. of Sheitan

sheitannoun (n.) An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil.
 noun (n.) One of bad disposition; a fiend.
 noun (n.) A dust storm.

tannoun (n.) See Picul.
 noun (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
 noun (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
 noun (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
 noun (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
 noun (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
 adjective (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
 verb (v. i.) To get or become tanned.
 verb (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch.

tarlatannoun (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

tartannoun (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
 noun (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

teetannoun (n.) A pipit.

thibetannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thibet.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Thibet.

titanadjective (a.) Titanic.

tripolitannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.

witannoun (n. pl.) Lit., wise men;
 noun (n. pl.) the members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DESTAN (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (desta) - Words That Begins with desta:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (dest) - Words That Begins with dest:


destempernoun (n.) A kind of painting. See Distemper.

destinnoun (n.) Destiny.

destinableadjective (a.) Determined by destiny; fated.

destinaladjective (a.) Determined by destiny; fated.

destinateadjective (a.) Destined.
 verb (v. t.) To destine, design, or choose.

destinationnoun (n.) The act of destining or appointing.
 noun (n.) Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
 noun (n.) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

destiningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Destine

destinistnoun (n.) A believer in destiny; a fatalist.

destinynoun (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
 noun (n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

destituentadjective (a.) Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.

destituteadjective (a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
 adjective (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
 verb (v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.
 verb (v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of.
 verb (v. t.) To disappoint.

destitutenessnoun (n.) Destitution.

destitutionnoun (n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

destrernoun (n.) Alt. of Dextrer

destroyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Destroy

destroyableadjective (a.) Destructible.

destroyernoun (n.) One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
 noun (n.) = Torpedo-boat destroyer.

destructibilitynoun (n.) The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

destructibleadjective (a.) Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

destructiblenessnoun (n.) The quality of being destructible.

destructionnoun (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
 noun (n.) The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
 noun (n.) A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.

destructionistnoun (n.) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.
 noun (n.) One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist.

destructivenoun (n.) One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
 adjective (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.

destructivenessnoun (n.) The quality of destroying or ruining.
 noun (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.

destructornoun (n.) A destroyer.
 noun (n.) A furnace or oven for the burning or carbonizing of refuse
 noun (n.) a furnace (called in full refuse destructor) in which the more solid constituents of sewage are burnt. Destructors are often so constructed as to utilize refuse as fuel.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (des) - Words That Begins with des:


descantingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descant

descanternoun (n.) One who descants.

descendingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

descendantnoun (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
 adjective (a.) Descendent.

descendentadjective (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

descendernoun (n.) One who descends.

descendibilitynoun (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

descendibleadjective (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
 adjective (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.

descensionnoun (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

descensionaladjective (a.) Pertaining to descension.

descensiveadjective (a.) Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

descensorynoun (n.) A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

descentnoun (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
 noun (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
 noun (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
 noun (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
 noun (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
 noun (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
 noun (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
 noun (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
 noun (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
 noun (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

describableadjective (a.) That can be described; capable of description.

describingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Describe

describentnoun (n.) Same as Generatrix.

describernoun (n.) One who describes.

descriernoun (n.) One who descries.

descriptionnoun (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
 noun (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
 noun (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

descriptiveadjective (a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.

descryingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descry

descrynoun (n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
 verb (v. t.) To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
 verb (v. t.) To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

desecratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desecrate

desecraternoun (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner.

desecrationnoun (n.) The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

desecratornoun (n.) One who desecrates.

desegmentationnoun (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

desertnoun (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
 noun (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
 noun (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
 verb (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
 verb (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
 verb (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

desertingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desert

deserternoun (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

desertfuladjective (a.) Meritorious.

desertionnoun (n.) The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
 noun (n.) The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
 noun (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.

desertlessadjective (a.) Without desert.

desertnessnoun (n.) A deserted condition.

desertrixnoun (n.) Alt. of Desertrice

desertricenoun (n.) A feminine deserter.

deservingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deserve
 noun (n.) Desert; merit.
 adjective (a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.

deservednessnoun (n.) Meritoriousness.

deservernoun (n.) One who deserves.

deshabillenoun (n.) An undress; a careless toilet.

desiccantnoun (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
 adjective (a.) Drying; desiccative.

desiccatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiccate

desiccationnoun (n.) The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

desiccativenoun (n.) An application for drying up secretions.
 adjective (a.) Drying; tending to dry.

desiccatornoun (n.) One who, or that which, desiccates.
 noun (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
 noun (n.) One that desiccates
 noun (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as calcium chloride, above which is placed the material to be dried or preserved from moisture.
 noun (n.) A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.

desiccatoryadjective (a.) Desiccative.

desiderableadjective (a.) Desirable.

desideratanoun (n. pl.) See Desideratum.
  (pl. ) of Desideratum

desideratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiderate

desiderationnoun (n.) Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DESTAN:

English Words which starts with 'de' and ends with 'an':

deannoun (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
 noun (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
 noun (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
 noun (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
 noun (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

deathsmannoun (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

decagynianadjective (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous

decandrianadjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous

decumanadjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

dedalianadjective (a.) See Daedalian.

dellacruscanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.

delphianadjective (a.) Delphic.

demeannoun (n.) Demesne.
 noun (n.) Resources; means.
 verb (v. t.) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
 verb (v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
 verb (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
 verb (v. t.) Management; treatment.
 verb (v. t.) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.

demimannoun (n.) A half man.

demonianadjective (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.

dermapterannoun (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.

dermopterannoun (n.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

desmannoun (n.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.

desmidiannoun (n.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.

devoniannoun (n.) The Devonian age or formation.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.