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drama
(countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
drastis
Having a strong or far-reaching effect; extreme, severe.
dril
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
drom
(literary) Forms placenames related to racetracks (now especially large covered racetracks) or similar structures.
dron
An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
drum
(percussion instrument) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
dsb.
And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.
dua
The digit/figure 2.
dua belas
The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
dua puluh
The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
dual
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
dualistis
Of or relating to dualism.
duar
The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
Dublin
(metonym) The government of the Republic of Ireland.
dubur
(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.
duda
A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
duh
(symptom, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
duit
(historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
dukun
A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
dukung
(transitive) To support.
dukungan
Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
duli
(countable, obsolete) A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.
dulu
(with past-tense constructions) At an earlier time; already.
duma
A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).
dumping
(economics, trading) Selling goods at less than their normal price, or even at a loss, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly.
dungu
(informal, pejorative, especially of a person) Stupid.
Dunia
(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
dunia maya
A world of information accessed through the Internet.
dupa
Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
duplikat
One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
durhaka
Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
duri
(botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
durian
The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor.
dus
An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
dusta
(intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
duta
A diplomat of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there their sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
duta besar
A diplomat of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there their sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
dwi
Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
dwi-
Every two; a rate of once every two.
dwigol
(association football) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
dwiguna
Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
dwiminggu
(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _, in North America) A period of 2 weeks.
dwimingguan
Occurring once in a fortnight; once every two weeks.
dwimuka
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
e
(added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
e- -an
Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of being (the adjective)", "the quality of being (the adjective)", or "the measure of being (the adjective)".
eau de cologne
Any of a family of fresh, citrus-based fragrances distilled using extracts from citrus, floral, and woody ingredients, said to have been developed in the early 18th century in Cologne, Germany.
ebonit
The relatively hard product of vulcanizing natural rubber with sulfur; vulcanite.
ecer
Of or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
eceran
(business) The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
edan
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
edar
(transitive, now, rare) To ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. [from 15th c.]
edema
(medicine) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.
editor
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
editorial
Of or relating to an editor, editing or an editorial.
Edmonton
The capital city of Alberta, Canada.
efektivitas
The property of being effective, of achieving results.
efendi
An educated or well-respected man in an eastern Mediterranean or Arab country; often used as a title of respect or courtesy in Turkey or a former Ottoman territory.
efikasi
A degree of ability to produce a desired effect; effectiveness.
eflorensensi
(pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Efraim
A en given name.
Efrat
A river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.
ego
(psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
egois
An egocentric or self-centered person.
egoisme
The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.
egosentris
Egotistical.
ejakulasi
(specifically) A reflex in human beings and other mammals in response to sexual stimulation involving the forcible ejection from the urethra of, in males, semen; and, in females, vaginal fluid.
ek
Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
eka-
one, single, only
ekar
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
eklips
Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
ekliptika
(astronomy) The plane in which this great circle lies.
eko-
ecology or the environment (in the ecological sense)
ekologi
(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
ekonom
An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
ekonomi
(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
ekonomi makro
The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.
ekonomi mikro
(economics) The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.
ekor
(plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
eks-
former
eksegesis
A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.
eksem
(biology, medicine) A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.
eksil
(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.
eksipien
(pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage.
eksistensi
(Ontology) The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
ekskavator
A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.Excavator
ekskomunikasi
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
ekskoriasi
The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
ekskresi
The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
ekskursi
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
eksodus
A sudden departure of a large number of people.
eksoskeleton
(anatomy) A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.
ekspatriat
One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
ekspedisi
A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose
eksper
Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
eksplorasi
(transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
eksplosi
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical); an act or instance of exploding.
eksponen
(mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2^3=8.
ekspor
(countable) Something that is exported.
eksportir
One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.
ekspresi
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
ekstase
Intense pleasure.
ekstasi
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
ekstemporan
With inadequate preparation or without advance thought; offhand.
ekstermitas
A hand or foot. [from early 15th c.]
ekstra-
Outside of, beyond.
ekstradisi
A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.
ekstraksi
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
ekstrakurikuler
Outside of the normal curriculum of an educational establishment.
ekstrem
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
ekstrinsik
Not belonging to something; outside.
eksudat
A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
ektoplasma
(parapsychology) A visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.
Ekuador
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Ecuador. Capital: Quito.
ekuator
(geography, often, _, “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
ekuilibrium
The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
ekuinoks
One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.
ekumenis
(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious. [from 16th c.]
el
The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
elang tiram
A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
elas
Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.
elastis
Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
elastisitas
(physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
elegan
Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
elegi
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]
elektif
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
elektris
Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
elektromagnetik
A unified fundamental force that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified with weak nuclear to form electroweak) Its gauge boson is the photon.
elektromagnetisme
A unified fundamental force that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified with weak nuclear to form electroweak) Its gauge boson is the photon.
elektron
(particle) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.
elektronik
(in the plural) Devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet)
elektronika
(physics) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles or by converting the flow of charged particles to or from other forms of energy.
Eli
A en given name of Biblical origin.
Elisabet
A en given name, popular since the 16th century.
elite
A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
elok
Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
elus
(transitive) To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.
em-
(added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
email
(uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network.
emas
Made of gold.
emas kodok
A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
emas putih
A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
embarkasi
The act of embarking.
embek
The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
embik
The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
embrio
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
embun
(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
emigrasi
The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
Emilia
A en given name.
emir
A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.

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