desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
descent
- n a movement downward
- n properties attributable to your ancestry
- n the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- n the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- n a downward slope or bend
- n the descendants of one individual
description
- n a statement that represents something in words
- n the act of describing something
- n sort or variety
every description of book was there
descriptive adjective
- n an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')