All articles starting with D

Despina (moon)

Despina (Neptune V, provisional designation S/1989 N 3) is a small inner moon of Neptune about 148 kilometers across, discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989 as it orbits within the planet's faint ring system.

Despina Vandi (Δέσποινα Βανδή)

Despina Vandi (Δέσποινα Βανδή), born Despina Malea in 1969 in Tübingen, Germany, is a Greek laïko-pop singer. Her album Gia (2001) was Greece's best seller of 2001-2002 and she won the 2002 World Music Award for Best Selling Greek Artist.

Despotate of Arta

The Despotate of Arta (Despotati i Artës) was a late medieval principality in Epirus, northwestern Greece, ruled by Albanian chieftains with Arta as its center until 1416.

Despotate of Epirus (Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου)

Despotate of Epirus (Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου), also called the Epirote despotate: Byzantine successor state founded by Michael I Komnenos Doukas at Arta after 1204, peaked as the Empire of Thessalonica, fell to the Ottomans in 1479.

Despotate of Ioannina

The Despotate of Ioannina was a late medieval principality in Epirus, ruled by Serbian, Italian, and Epirote despots until it surrendered to the Ottomans in 1430.

Despotate of the Morea

The Despotate of the Morea was a semi-autonomous province of the late Byzantine Empire in the Peloponnese, governed from Mystras by members of the imperial family from 1349 to 1460.

Despotism

Despotism: unrestrained single-person rule without fixed laws, from Aristotle's despotēs (slave-master rule) to Montesquieu's 1748 typology (principle of fear, no intermediate bodies), later Wittfogel's oriental despotism; distinguished from tyranny and modern dictatorship.

Después de Ti

Después de Ti is a 2026 dream-pop ballad single by Colombian singer KAROL G with Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex, premiered at Coachella, released April 23, 2026 on Interscope, and closing her album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto.

Desquamation

Desquamation is the shedding of corneocytes from the stratum corneum, driven by kallikrein-mediated corneodesmosome degradation; impaired or excessive shedding causes scaling disorders like ichthyosis and Netherton syndrome.

Dess–Martin periodinane

Dess–Martin periodinane (DMP) is a hypervalent iodine(V) oxidizing reagent, reported by Dess and Martin in 1991, used to oxidize alcohols to aldehydes and ketones under mild conditions.

Dessan

Dessan (also spelled destan or dastan) is an epic genre of Turkmen literature, known since the 18th century, that combines fairy tales, folk legends, and love or heroic material.

Oct 21, 2026

Dessau

Dessau, city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, now part of Dessau-Roßlau (since 2007); residence of Anhalt-Dessau, home of the UNESCO Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, the 1787 Erdmannsdorff municipal cemetery, Moses Mendelssohn's birthplace, and the Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte.

Dessert

Dessert is the sweet course served at the end of a meal, typically including cake, pie, fruit, pudding, and ice cream; the word comes from the French desservir, meaning "to clear the table".

Dessert wine

Dessert wine, also called pudding wine, is a sweet wine served with or as dessert, made by late harvest, noble rot, freezing, drying, or fortification.

Oct 21, 2026

Dessie

Dessie (Amharic: ደሴ) is a rapidly growing city in the Amhara Region of north-central Ethiopia and the capital of the South Wollo Administrative Zone, on a main north-south transport route.

Dessin d'enfant

A dessin d'enfant, French for "child's drawing," is a finite bicolored graph on a surface that determines a Riemann surface; the absolute Galois group acts on these objects.

Desta Damtew

Ras Desta Damtew (ደስታ ዳምጠው) was an Ethiopian aristocrat and general, a son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, who led southern resistance to the Italian invasion and was executed in 1937.

Destabilized hydride systems

Destabilized hydride systems are mixtures of two or more metal hydrides that release hydrogen at lower temperatures because dehydrogenation forms a stable compound, such as MgB₂ in the LiBH₄–MgH₂ system.

Destaco

Destaco, historically styled DE-STA-CO, is an American automation and workholding manufacturer headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, founded in 1915 and known for the first manual toggle clamp.

Destan

Destan is a long versified narrative in Turkish literature that recounts historical and social events through heroes' extraordinary adventures, traditionally performed with melody before an audience.

Destiel

Destiel is the slash ship name for Dean Winchester and Castiel of Supernatural, coined around 2008-2011, AO3's most popular ship, partially canonized in the 2020 episode "Despair" when Castiel confesses his love.

Destilerías Unidas

Destilerías Unidas, also known as DUSA, is a Venezuelan spirits producer and rum distillery founded in 1959 at La Miel, best known for Diplomático and Cacique rums.

Destin Daniel Cretton

Destin Daniel Cretton (born 1978, Maui, Hawaii) is an American director of Short Term 12, Just Mercy, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day; second Asian-American MCU director after Ang Lee.

Destin Gas Pipeline

The Destin Gas Pipeline is a 255-mile natural gas pipeline carrying offshore Gulf of Mexico gas to Pascagoula, Mississippi, and north through the state, in service since 1998.

Sep 27, 2026

Destin Hall

Destin Hall is an American Republican politician serving as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives and representing District 87, covering Caldwell and Watauga counties.

Destin, Florida

Destin, Florida: resort city in Okaloosa County on the Emerald Coast, founded by fisherman Leonard Destin, incorporated 1984, about 14,000 residents, home to Florida's largest charter fishing fleet.

Destination Earth (digital twin)

Destination Earth (DestinE) is a European Commission flagship initiative building a digital twin of the Earth system, implemented by ECMWF, ESA, and EUMETSAT and launched in 2024.

Destination Moon (film)

Destination Moon (1950) is a George Pal-produced, Irving Pichel-directed Technicolor science fiction film, loosely based on Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo, that won the Oscar for Best Special Effects and launched the 1950s science fiction film boom.

Destination therapy

Destination therapy: permanent use of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as long-term support for advanced heart failure patients permanently ineligible for heart transplant; IMACS survival ~80% at 1 year, HeartMate 3 FDA-approved for DT in 2018.