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des
(dā),USA pronunciation prep.
DES,
-des,
- Foreign Termsused in French names as a contraction of de and the article les: François des Adrets.
DES,
- DrugsSee diethylstilbestrol.
-des,
- a plural suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek:proboscides.
- Greek, nominative plural of d- stem nouns
'des' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Arnim
- Art Deco
- beaux-arts
- Benda
- Brentano
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Condillac
- debut
- decry
- defeat
- defy
- delay
- denouement
- deracinate
- derange
- deshabille
- Des Moines
- des Prés
- des res
- dessert
- detach
- detour
- develop
- dis-
- disburse
- discomfit
- disembogue
- disguise
- disgust
- dishevelled
- dismay
- disparage
- dispatch
- disport
- Duhamel
- Fénelon
- France
- Genet
- Iowa
- Josquin des Prés
- kilogram
- Lamartine
- Montesquieu
- Pagnol
- Poulenc
- Saint-Exupéry
- Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
- Scart
- Sismondi
- stain