Words Starting D & Ending ND

• argue or speak in defense of

• be on the defensive; act against an attack

• protect against a challenge or attack

• fight against or resist strongly

• protect or fight for as a champion

• be the defense counsel for someone in a trial

• state or assert

• a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

• very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

• a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

• a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it

• the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate

• the baseball playing field

• move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

• come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

• do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

• come as if by falling

• cause to break up or cease to function

• stop functioning or cohering as a unit

• lose confidence or hope; become dejected

• To cancel funding for.

• A Byzantine bireme, similar to the chelandion, but used primarily for naval combat.