Category: D

To scatter or disperse.  

In law, the opinion in which a judge announces his or her dissent from the conclusions held by the majority of the court. Common usage in Supreme Court decisions. –

In parliamentary procedure, a difference of opinion.  

A form of contraceptive worn at the cervix and thrown away after an act of sexual intercourse, diaphragm.  

In ethology, pertaining to genetically programmed responses that serve as stimuli for the reaction of others and thus serve as the basis of a communication system.  

Releasing anger on a person or object other than the one that is the source of the anger.  

In ethology, the elicitation of instinctive behavior by inappropriate stimuli that resemble the appropriate stimulus.  

A capacity shared by all languages for referring to objects and events that are distant in either time or space.  

Hostility directed toward a person or object not directly responsible for the frustration that produced it.  

In emergency procedures, one who transmits calls to service units, sending vehicles and EMTs on emergency missions.