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dauermodificationThe persistence of an abnormal characteristic – generally an environmentally induced trait – over several generations of the organism. Such characteristics are inherited through the cytoplasm and tend to disappear after a few generations.deacclimatizationacclimatization to an original climate or system (after being acclimatized to another)deacetylcerbertinA particular steroid glycoside.deacetyltanghininA particular cardiac glycoside.deaffricatizationAlternative form of deaffrication.deagrarianisationAlternative form of deagrarianization.deagrarianizationThe process of moving a societal structure away from an agrarian mode toward something else.dearterialization(medicine) Removal of the arterial supply, often through the method of surgical ligation of an artery.decarbonatization(geology) Any process that removes carbonate minerals from rock.decatheterizationThe removal of a catheterdecatholicizationThe process of decatholicizing.decellularisationAlternative spelling of decellularization.decellularization(biology, medicine) The loss of cells from tissue.decircularizationThe process of decircularizing.declericalizationThe removal of clerical influencedecolonializationThe process of decolonializing.decommodificationA social movement that views workers as more than commoditiesdecommoditisationAlternative form of decommoditization.decommoditizationThe process of decommoditizing.decomplementation(genetics) The act or the result of being decomplementeddecorporatizationThe process of decorporatizing.decriminalisationNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of decriminalization.decriminalizationThe act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess). (Compare legalization, which often implies regulation.)decrystallisationAlternative form of decrystallization.decrystallizationThe breakdown of a solid, crystalline structure.deculturalizationThe process of deculturalizing.dedifferentiationThe loss or reversal of differentiation.dedikaryotisationAlternative form of dedikaryotization.dedikaryotization(biology) The conversion of a dikaryon into a pair of homokaryonsdefamiliarisation(art) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.defamiliarizationAlternative spelling of defamiliarisation.defibrinogenationinduced defibrinationdeflexibilizationThe act or process of making something less flexible.degalactosylation(organic chemistry) The removal of a galactosyl groupdeglucuronidation(biochemistry) The removal of glucuronic acid derivatives from a moleculedehalorespiration(biochemistry) halorespiration (in which energy is obtained by removal of the halogen atom)dehistoricizationThe process or result of dehistoricizing.dehospitalizationThe discharge of a patient from hospital.dehydroadonirubin(organic chemistry) A particular carotenoid.dehydrogenizationdehydrogenationdeimmortalization(biology) The process, or the result, of deimmortalizingdeimperialization(political science) The process of deimperializing; the dismantling or formal ending of an empire.deinonychosaurianAny theropod dinosaur of the clade DeinonychosauriadeintensificationThe process of something becoming less intense.dejudicializationThe process of dejudicializing.demarginalizationThe act or process of demarginalizing.demasculinizationThe removal of the testiclesdematerialisationthe act or process of dematerializingdematerializationThe act or process of dematerializing, or becoming immaterial.demesothelizationThe breakup and removal of the mesotheliumdemethoxyyangoninAlternative form of desmethoxyyangonin.demethylimination(biochemistry) The removal of methylimine residues from amino acids such as methylargininedemethylsuberosin(organic chemistry) The coumarin 6-prenyl-7-hydroxycoumarin.demythologisationAlternative form of demythologization.demythologizationThe removal of mythological elements from something, especially from religious writing.denarrativizationAct or process of denarrativizing.denationalisationNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of denationalization.denationalizationThe act or process of denationalizing, of removing from government control.deoligarchisationNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of deoligarchization.deoligarchization(politics) The act or process of reversing oligarchization, that is, the act or process of democratization by lessening the political power of oligarchs or removing them from influential positions.deoligomerizationThe process, or the result of deoligomerizingdeoxyelephantopin(organic chemistry) A sesquiterpene lactone found in Elephantopus carolinianus.deoxyfluorination(organic chemistry) Any reaction that replaces a hydroxyl (-OH) group with fluoride (-F)deoxyhypusination(biochemistry) Modification by the addition of deoxyhypusinedepancreatization(archaic) pancreatectomydeparaffinisationAlternative form of deparaffinization.deparaffinization(cytology) The removal of paraffin wax from slides prior to stainingdepartmentizationAlternative form of departmentalization.depathologisationAlternative form of depathologization.depathologization(medicine) The process of coming to regard a formerly medical condition as a health or behaviour condition.depersonalisationAlternative spelling of depersonalization.depersonalizationThe act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized.dephlogistication(chemistry, obsolete) The process of dephlogisticating; removal of the phlogiston, a supposed element released during combustion.dephosphatisationThe removal of phosphate or phosphoric aciddephosphonylation(organic chemistry) The process, or the result of dephosphonylating.dephosphorisationAlternative form of dephosphorization.dephosphorization(chemistry) The act of freeing from phosphorus.dephosphorylation(biochemistry) The removal of phosphate groups from a compound, especially from a biological compounddephysicalizationThe act, process, or result of dephysicalizing.derationalisationAlternative form of derationalization.derationalizationThe process of derationalizing.dereligionizationThe process of dereligionizing.dermapigmentationSynonym of micropigmentation.deseasonalisationAlternative form of deseasonalization.deseasonalizationThe process or result of deseasonalizing.desemanticisationNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemanticization.desemanticizationThe loss or removal of all or part of the original semantic content (meaning) of a word or morpheme, sometimes (but not always) as part of grammaticalization.desglucodigitoninA particular steroid glycoside.desglucoerycordinA particular steroid glycoside.desingularization(mathematics) Any of several techniques used to resolve a singularity.destandardizationThe process of destandardizing.destressification(colloquial, nonce word) The reduction or elimination of emotional stress.desulfoferrodoxin(biochemistry) A protein, that contains both ferric and ferrous atoms, found in bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio.desupersaturationThe process of becoming less than supersaturated.desynchronisation(British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.desynchronization(American spelling, Oxford British English, neurology) A loss of synchronization of brain waves.detheocratizationThe act or process of detheocratizing.devascularisationAlternative spelling of devascularization.devascularizationThe destruction or blocking of blood vessels and concomitant loss of blood supply to an organdihaloelimination(organic chemistry) A reaction in which two halogen atoms are removed from adjacent carbon atoms of a compounddiiodohydroxyquin(pharmacology) Synonym of diiodohydroxyquinoline.dimethylhydantoin(organic chemistry) Any dimethyl derivative of hydantoin, but especially 5,5-dimethylhydantoindiphosphorylationphosphorylation using two phosphate groupsdiscommensuration(physics) The condition of being discommensuratedisidentificationThe act of disidentifying, or rejecting a personal or group identity.disideologizationRemoval of or breaking away from an ideology.disintermediation(banking, finance, economics) The removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.disnaturalizationThe process of disnaturalizing.dispalatalization(phonology) The process of becoming not palatal.disrecommendationThe act, or the result, of disrecommending.dissymmetrizationConversion to dissymmetric formdisyllabification(linguistics) The evolution towards disyllabicity.docudramatizationThe process of adapting something into a docudrama.dysautoregulationA failure of autoregulation.dysynchronisationMisspelling of desynchronisation.