A climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific Islands, Derris elliptica, whose roots are a source of rotenone.

Of or pertaining to Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French Algerian-born philosopher and founder of deconstruction.

(dated, 1800s) Alternative form of derringer (“pistol”)

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, selenium, and uranium.

(obsolete) daring; warlike

Of or relating to Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida; 1930–2004), French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction.

(New Zealand, Australia) dislike

plural of derrickhand

A worker on an oil rig, working on a raised platform from which they guide instruments in and out of the well.

plural of Derringer