desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
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')
descriptive anthropology
- n the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies