desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
depreciation charge
- n an amount periodically charged to expense or against revenue in compensation for depreciation of property
depravity
- n moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity - n a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
deprecation
- n a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
- n the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)