Desert

Definition: Desert

Desert

Adjective

1. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places".

Noun

1. An arid region with little or no vegetation.

Verb

1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children".

2. Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "desert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Geological

Public Administration

Science

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Desert

Absence

Empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited; tenantless; barren, sterile; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Peace

Phrase: the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax bello; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war"; "they make a desert and they call it peace".

Plain

Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Resignation

Abrogate; desert; (relinquish); get rid of.

Unproductiveness

Waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.

Virtue

Merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control; (resolution); self-denial; (temperance).

Waste

Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.

Crosswords: Desert

Catalan (desert), Macedonian (dessert), Romanian (dessert, sweets), Romansch (desert), Serbo-Croatian (dessert).

Welcome to the desert of the real (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

We're in the desert! (Casablanca; writing credit: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play 'Everybody Comes to Rick's' by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.)

Anything found in the desert of a frustrated life can bring hope (The Devils; writing credit: Aldous Huxley; Ken Russell)

The Sahara Desert is very big (Ice Machine In The Desert; performing artist: Brave Combo)

This desert rose (Desert Rose; performing artist: Sting)

Flying across the desert in a TWA, (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Lost at sea, hide the desert (Muscles; performing artist: Diana Ross)

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

Too much sun makes a desert. (references; author: Arabian Proverb)

All sunshine makes a desert. (references; author: unknown)

The Desert Raven (1965)

Sands of the Desert (1960)

Desert Mice (1959)

Return to the Desert (1956)

Desert Sands (1955)

Desert Rose (performing artist: Sting)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Desert Community Bank: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Palm Desert Art, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Rick Joy: Desert Works (reference)

• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (reference)

• Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• City Az Desert Living (reference)

• Desert Connections (reference)

• Desert Dispatch-daily (reference)

• Desert Plants (reference)

• Desert Post Weekly (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Desert Hearts (reference)

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (reference)

• The Desert Song (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Desert Music / Tehillim (reference)

• Desert Winds & Burning Sky Soothing Sounds (reference)

• Footprints in the Desert (reference)

• Painted Desert Serenade (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Desert Strike (reference)

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Mission Pack: Desert Siege (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Vitara Desert Night Blue Teakettle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Free-Falling Body Nose Dives in Desert. Credit: NASA.

NASA Astronauts Desert Survival Training. Credit: NASA.

The Dasht-e Kevir, or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating. Credit: NASA.

The western region of Australia's Great Sandy Desert is an area almost devoid of sand, but characterized by complex geology. Credit: NASA.

Plane table party working near Mt. Desert, Maine Sketch by Chief of Party Cleveland Rockwell. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Small wooden stand on ridge in Mojave Desert Station built during observations on Transcontinental Traverse work Triangulation party of Woodrow Johnson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sinai Desert shoreline on the Gulf of Aqaba. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A near desert appearing scene south of the Kohala Mountains on the Parker Ranch. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Helen's Reef - a classic desert island - elevation above sea level about 8 feet. Credit: Small World.

F-117A over the New Mexico desert.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat, they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. (reference)

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1902)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well

Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold

And 66 goes on over the terrible desert, where the distance shimmers and the black center mountains hang unbearably in the distance

The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Usually, the deer mouse likes woodlands, but also turns up in desert areas. (references)

Recent studies have confirmed that infected rodents are present in every habitat type--from desert to alpine tundra--but that the prevalence of infection is higher among certain species of Peromyscus and in certain middle-altitude habitats. (references)

Business

The terrain is mostly sand desert, barren mountains, and salt flats. (references)

Guests at Al Maha will enjoy their stay in a perfect sanctuary in the middle of vast nature reserve right in the heart of the desert. (references)

Desert Air Tour offers an aerial view of the city of Dubai for an approximate cost of USD 68-95 for an approximately flying time of 45 minutes to an hour. This service is offered daily. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

However, the land was in the desert, with no access to water, making it impossible to perform Baha'i mourning rituals. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

Terrain: Coastal desert. (references)

Mali

Terrain: Savannah and desert. (references)

Human Rights

Angola

Recruits were taken to isolated military camps and subjected to psychological stress and extreme hardships; those who attempted to desert were executed. (references)

Mexico

Since his arrest in 1995, numerous other young women have been kidnaped, raped, strangled, and had their bodies dumped in the same areas of the desert where previous victims were found. (references)

Turkmenistan

Others who had the proper building permits were offered apartments or plots of land in compensation, but such compensation was often not at fair market value for example, desert plots with no amenities, or was inadequate for large families. (references)

Indigenous People

Botswana

The Basarwa (also known as San), who now inhabit chiefly the Kalihari Desert, are the earliest known inhabitants of the country and were the only inhabitants until Bantu groups arrived during the 16th century. (references)

Political Economy

Turkmenistan

It is largely a desert with cattle and sheep raising, intensive agriculture in irrigated areas, and huge oil and gas reserves. (references)

OMAN

The Sultanate of Oman is a nation of 2.4 million people (including as many as 624,000 expatriates) living in the arid mountains and desert plains of the southeastern Arabian Peninsula. (references)

Travel

Kuwait

Stay on main roads and do not travel on unpaved roads; avoid open areas and the desert. (references)

Mexico

This includes Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and other beach resorts, as well as the desert Northeast and border zone. (references)

Egypt

Alexandria and Cairo are connected by both the Western Desert Highway, a high-speed toll road and the busier Delta Road. (references)

Women

Yemen

Citizens of African origin or those living in communities with heavy African influence are more likely to practice FGM. For example, according to the survey, approximately 69 percent of women living in coastal areas were subjected to FGM, compared with 15 percent in mountainous regions, and 5 percent in the plateau and desert regions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Desert

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Expressions using "desert": arabian Desert ♦ atacama Desert ♦ australian Desert ♦ Colorado Desert ♦ desert area ♦ desert boot ♦ Desert Climate ♦ desert dish ♦ Desert flora ♦ desert four o'clock ♦ desert Fox ♦ Desert hare ♦ Desert Hills ♦ desert holly ♦ Desert Hot Sprin ♦ Desert Hot Springs ♦ desert iguana ♦ desert island ♦ desert life ♦ desert lynx ♦ desert mariposa tulip ♦ Desert mouse ♦ desert olive ♦ desert paintbrush ♦ desert pea ♦ desert plant ♦ desert plume ♦ desert rat ♦ desert rheumatism ♦ desert rose ♦ desert sand verbena ♦ desert selaginella ♦ desert soil ♦ desert spoon ♦ desert sunflower ♦ desert the colors ♦ desert the colours ♦ desert to the enemy ♦ desert tortoise ♦ desert varnish ♦ Desert View Highlands ♦ desert warfare ♦ desert willow ♦ gila Desert ♦ gobi desert ♦ Kalahari Desert ♦ libyan Desert ♦ Mohave Desert ♦ mojave desert ♦ Mount Desert ♦ Namib Desert ♦ near desert ♦ Negev Desert ♦ nubian Desert ♦ operation Desert Storm ♦ painted Desert ♦ Palm Desert ♦ Palm Desert Country ♦ patagonian Desert ♦ pride of the desert ♦ rock desert ♦ sahara desert ♦ salt desert ♦ sand desert ♦ sandy desert ♦ Sinai Desert ♦ stone desert ♦ Sturt's desert pea ♦ the ship of the desert. Additional references.

Beginning with "desert": desert-adapted, desert-camouflage, desert-covered, desert-dwellers, desert-dwelling, desert-flower, desert-hardened, desert-like, desert-living, Desert-rat, desert-stained.

Ending with "desert": near-desert, semi-desert.

Containing "desert": walking-off-into-the-desert-at-the-end-movie.

Afrikaans

verlaat (abandon, forsake, leave, quit), afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references)

Albanian

dezertoj, vend shterpë, shterp (barren, dry, effete, sterile), shpërblim (bonus, compensation, consideration, deserts, guerdon, honor, honorarium, honour, kudos, meed, pay, payment, premium, recompense, recoupment, remuneration, render, reparations, repayment, requital, return, reward), shkretëtirë (wild), punë e mërzitshme, meritë (merit, virtue), më lë, më iku, i shkretë (blessed, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, poor, waste, wild), i pabanuar (desolate, uninhabited, untenantable), braktis (cast away, cast off, chuck, drop out, fall away, forsake, jilt, lay down, let go, relinquish, renounce, tek pupa, throw over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فر من الجندية, ‏مجدب (arid, barren, dry, infertile, sterile, sterilized, unfruitful, waste), ‏مثوبة, ‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏قفر (tumble, waste, wasteland, wild, wild land, wilderness), ‏قاحل (arid, barren, dry, infertile, waste), ‏صحراوي, ‏صحراء (sand, wilderness), ‏جدارة (aptitude, competence, efficiency, eligibility, fitness, merit, qualification, suitability, worth, worthiness), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway), ‏أهلية (aptitude, aptly, competence, domestication, legitimacy, neatness, qualification, qualifications), ‏بيداء. (various references)

Asturian

ermu. (various references)

Aymara

huasara. (various references)

Basque

basamortu. (various references)

Bemba

ciswebebe. (various references)

Blackfoot

ómahksspatsiko. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скучна тема, оставям (abandon, confide, drop off, leave, leave behind, let, put, put down, quit, repudiate, resign, vacate), напускам (abandon, fall away, lay down, leave, leave off, part from, quit, relinquish, vacate, void), напуснат (abandoned, deserted), заслуга (merit, merits, service), пустиня (wild, wilderness), пустинен (waste), пуст (bleak, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, harsh, inane, infernal, inhospitable, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, wild, yeasty), дезертирам (scuttle). (various references)

Catalan

desert. (various references)

Cebuano

desyerto. (various references)

Chamorro

disietto. (various references)

Chinese 

沙漠 . (various references)

Cornish

dysert. (various references)

Czech

dezertovat (defect), zradit (betray, fink, flimflam, rat, sell), zbìhnout, zásluha (credit, worth, worthiness), pustý (bleak, desolate, dreary, godforsaken, hollow, stark, void, waste, wild), opustit (abandon, drop, forsake, leave, plant, quit, relinquish, throw up, to leave). (various references)

Danish

udørken. (various references)

Dutch

woestijn, wildernis (wilderness). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

manapi causana panpa. (various references)

Esperanto

dezerto, malfideliĝi (apostatize, secede), forlasi (abandon, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

Faeroese

oyðimørk. (various references)

Farsi 

گریختن (Abscond, Escape, Runaway, Shun, Skedaddle, Slip), ترک کردن (Defect, Disuse, Evacuate, Leave, Pullout, Relinquish), سزاواری (Liability, Merit), صحرا (Wilderness), استحقاق (Merit, Title), شایستگی (Ability, Adequacy, Aptitude, Aptness, Competence, Decency, Eligibility, Merit, Pertinence, Sufficiency), دشت (Flat, Moor, Plain, Weald). (various references)

Finnish

aavikko (prairie, vast plain, waste). (various references)

French

désert, quitter (depart), délaisser, abandonner. (various references)

Frisian

woastine. (various references)

German

Wüste (dreary, gaunt, waste, wasteland, wilderness), wüst (awful, chaotic, desolate, desolately, rough, rude, terrible, vile, waste, wild), verlassen (abandon, abandoned, abandonment, derelict, derelicted, deserted, desertion, desolate, evacuate, exit, forlorn, forsake, leave, lonely, loose, move away, quit, quitted, quitting, solitary, to derelict, to desert, to evacuate, to forlorn, to leave, untrodden), einöde (solitude, waste, wasteland). (various references)

Greek 

έρημος (wilderness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מדברי, ישימון (desolation, wasteland, wilderness), לעזוב (abandon, forsake, leave, let go, loosen, release, set free), לערוק (bolt, escape, flee, rat, renegade, tergiversate), לזנוח (abandon, forsake, lay aside, reject), לנטוש (abandon, brandish, cast aside, forsake, lay aside, leave, let, quit, relinquish, renounce), ערבה (dry land, plain, prairie, steppe, wilderness), חרבה (waste, wilderness). (various references)

Hungarian

sivatag (waste), pusztaság (barren, desolation, Heath, Heather, waste, wild, wilderness), lakatlan (bleak, deserted, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpeopled, untenanted), elhagy (abandon, forsake, forsaken, forsook, jilt, leave, leave behind, let down, omit, quit, sank, sunk, throw over, to abandon, to desert, to drop out, to fall off, to forsake, to jilt, to leave behind, to mislay, to sink, to throw over). (various references)

Icelandic

yfirgefa (abandon, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

Indonesian

sunyi, pahala, membolos (escape, play-truant), membelot (see: berbelot), jasa (kindness, service), gurun (wasteland). (various references)

Inuktitut

nuna immaqrangituq. (various references)

Irish

fásach. (various references)

Italian

deserto (deserted, empty, waste, wasteland, wilderness), abbandonare (abandon, abdicate, bolt, discard, dismiss, dump, fail, forsake, give up, leave, leave behind, let oneself go, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, Slough, surrender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荒野 (deserted land, wasteland, wilderness, wilds). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すなはら (sandy plain), デザート (dessert), さばく (adherence to the shogunate, to handle, to judge, to sell), こうや (8 p.m., a plain, deserted land, dyer, prairie, suburban fields, vast plain, wasteland, wilderness, wilds), あれの (deserted land, prairie, vast plain, wasteland, wild land, wilderness, wilds), あらの (deserted land, prairie, vast plain, wasteland, wilderness, wilds). (various references)

Kongo

nzanza. (various references)

Korean 

사막 (deserts). (various references)

Macedonian

pustina. (various references)

Manx

treigeil (abandon, betray, defect, departure, deviation, evacuate, evacuation, fall away, forsake; repudiation, jilt, lay aside, maroon, rat on, repudiate, strand, throw over), neuhaaghey (forsake), feaynid (expanse, expansiveness, extent, space, vagueness, wild), faasoil, faasagh (desolate, waste place, wild, wilderness), eaynnee, eaynagh (lamblike, steep; lamb-producing, wilderness; precipitous), caitnys (common, wilderness, wilderness garden). (various references)

Maori

kooraha. (various references)

Norwegian

forlate (abandon, allow, forgive, forsake, leave, let, quit, release), ørken. (various references)

Occitan

èrm. (various references)

Papago

tohono. (various references)

Papiamen

desierto, wustein, abandoná (abandon, forsake, leave, neglect, quit, slighting). (various references)

Pig Latin

esertday.(various references)

Polish

opuścić (abandon, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

Portuguese

deserto (arid, deserted, desolate, devastated, dreary, gaunt, solitude, waste, wild, wilderness). (various references)

Provencal

desèrt. (various references)

Romanian

abandona (abandon, break off an engagement, deliver up, desolate, drop, expose, forsake, leave, part with, quit, relent, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, shelve, spare, throw). (various references)

Romansch

desert. (various references)

Russian 

скучная тема, голый (bald, bare, in the nude, naked, nude, stark fact, unclad), оставлять (dump, forsake, lay down, leave, quit, relinquish, retire, vacate), необитаемый (empty, uninhabited, unoccupied), заслуга (merit), пустыня (dust bowl, waste, wasteland, wilderness), пустынный (deserted), покидать пустыня, покидать (cast off, на корме, fall away, forsake, leave, leaving, vacate), дезертировать (rat). (various references)

Samoan

toafa. (various references)

Scottish

tréig (abandon), toillteanas (compensation, reward), fàsail (lonely), fàsach (wilderness). (various references)

Sepedi

leganata. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dezertirati (defect), zasluga (credit, merit), pustinjski, pustinja (wasteland), pustara (heath, wold), pust (bleak, empty, indocile, lonely, waste), nenaseljen (desolate), napustiti (abandon, cast off, desolate, drop, drop out, fall away, forsake, give away, jilt, leave, quit, run out, take leave of, throw over, vacate, walk out). (various references)

Shona

gwenga. (various references)

Spanish

desierto (dead, deserted, deserter, empty, lonely, waste, wilderness), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield), desertar (apostatize, defect, rat, secede). (various references)

Swazi

lú-gangadvú. (various references)

Swedish

öken (wilderness), förtjänst (credit, deserts, earnings, emolument, gain, gainings, merit, payoff, profit, taking, win), desertera, överge (abandon, discard, drop, forsake, jack in, jettison, jilt, leave, plant, slough off, throw over, throw overboard, yield), ödemark (waste, wasteland), öde (desolate, destiny, fait, fate, fortune, fortunes, kismet, lot, unsettled, waste, wild). (various references)

Turkish

hak ettiğini bulma (deserts), ıssız yer, çöl (wilderness), çorak (arid, barren, gaunt, infertile, jejune, poor, waterless), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), bozkır (moor, moorland, steppe, veld, veldt, wold), ıssız (deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, isolated, retired, solitary, stark, unfrequented, uninhabited, void, waste, widowed, wild), hak etme (deserts), yüzüstü bırakmak (abandon, fail, leave in the lurch, leave smb. in the lurch, let down, turn smb. adrift, walk on, walk out on), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), sönüklük (dimness, vapidity, vapidness), taraf değiştirmek (change sides, go over, pass up, turn one's coat), tatsızlık (disagreeableness, insipidity, tastelessness, unpleasantness, vapidity, vapidness), terk etmek (abandon, leave, vacate, walk out on), terketmek (cede, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), hak edilen şey (deserts). (various references)

Turkmen 

gum (sand), зцl. (various references)

Ukrainian

кидати (abandon, aim, buzz, cast, chop, chuck, dart, dash, depart, desolate, elance, fall away, fling, pack in, pelt, pitch, plonk, project, sling, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), голий (bald, bare, bleak, callow, naked, nude, stark), глушина (back country, back-blocks, nook, wasteness), заслуга (merit, praise), залишати (abandon, chuck, depart, desolate, forsake, give over, leave, quit, relinquish, throw over, void), безлюдний (deserted, desolate), пустельний (deserted, waste, wasteful, wild), пустеля (sands, solitudes, thirst, waste, wild, wilderness), пустиня, пустинний (deserted), покинутий (abandoned, deserted, desolate, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken, lone, lovelorn, outcast, solitary, waif), покидати (cast off), достоїнство (caliber, calibre, merit, meritoriousness, plus), дезертирувати (defect, step, straggle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vắng vẻ (deserted, lonely, lonesome, solitary), sa mạc nơi hoang vắng, quạnh quẽ, nơi quạnh quẽ, không người ở bỏ hoang, hoang phế, hiu quạnh (hermitic, hermitical), giá trị sự xứng đáng, công lao (merit). (various references)

Welsh

diffeithwch (wilderness), diffaith (base, mean, waste, wilderness), haeddiant (merit), encilio (retreat), anialwch (wilderness), anial (desolate, fine, grievous, wild, wilderness), anghyfannedd (uninhabited), anghyfanheddol (desolating). (various references)

arena, avia, avium, bacchides, darium, decessit, deerat, deerit, deerunt, deesset, deest, defuerit, defuerunt, defuit, dens, dente, dentem, dentes, dentibus, dentium, derelinquo, des, deseram, deserant, deserat, desere, deserebat, deserentes, deserenti, deserere, deseretur, deserit, deserta, desertae, desertam, desertarum, desertas, deserti, desertis, deserto, desertos, desertum, desertus, deseruerunt, deseruisse, deservire, desis, desit, desolabit, desolabitur, desolabuntur, desolare, desolastis, desolata, desolatae, desolatam, desolatarum, desolati, desolatio, desolatione, desolationem, desolationis, desolatis, desolatum, desolatur, desolaverunt, desolentur, desoletur, destituant, destituens, destituerunt, destituta, destitutae, destitutam, desunt, dimiserant, dimiserat, dimiseratis, dimiseris, dimiserit, dimiseritis, dimisero, dimiserunt, dimiseruntque, dimisi, dimisimus, dimisissem, dimisisses, dimisisset, dimisisti, dimisistis, dimisit, dimisitque, dimissa, dimissam, dimissi, dimissis, dimisso, dimissum, dimissus, dimittam, dimittamini, dimittantur, dimittas, dimittat, dimittatis, dimittatur, dimitte, dimittebantur, dimittemus, dimittendi, dimittens, dimittent, dimittentes, dimittentur, dimittere, dimitteremus, dimitterentur, dimitteres, dimitteret, dimittes, dimittesque, dimittet, dimittetis, dimittetur, dimitteturque, dimitti, dimittimus, dimittis, dimittit, dimittite, dimittitis, dimittitur, dimittunt, dimittuntur, heremi, heremiam, heremo, heremum, inaquosa, inaquoso, inculta, perfugis, solitudo, transfugerant, transfugerit, transfugerunt, transfugiamus, transfugissent, transfugit. (various references)

�ahra. (various references)

deserter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "desert": deserted, deserter, deserters, desertic, desertification, desertifications, deserting, desertion, desertions, deserts. (additional references)

Words ending with "desert": nondesert, semidesert. (additional references)

Words containing "desert": antidesertification, semideserts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Desert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Besserat, daesert, Dassert, deasert, deassert, decert, Demsar, Depeyrot, desart, desat, Deseart, desent, deser, deseret, deserta, deserti, deserv, Desierto, Desir, desirv, Desmet, desper, desperd, desrt, dessart, desserte, dessrt, Deusser, Deweerdt, dieser, dilert, diseet, Disert, dosseret, duser, Dysert, gesserit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deters, rested.

-1 letter: deers, deets, deter, drees, drest, ester, redes, reeds, reest, reset, seder, sered, steed, steer, stere, terse, treed, trees.

-2 letters: deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, erst, rede, reds, reed, rees, rest, rete, rets, seed, seer, sere, teds, teed, tees, tree.

-3 letters: dee, eds, ere, ers, red, ree, res, ret, see, ser, set, ted, tee.

+1 letter: crested, dearest, derates, deserts, dessert, diester, dieters, oersted, redates, reddest, reedits, reested, resited, sedater, steered, strewed, tedders, tenders, teredos, tressed, wrested.

+2 letters: arrested, asserted, bestride, bestrode, bistered, breasted, corseted, debaters, deemster, deforest, deluster, demerits, dempster, demurest, dentures, desalter, deserted, deserter, desertic, desserts, destrier, deterges, detester, detrudes, dewaters, dextrose, diesters, diethers, digester, dimeters, discreet, discrete, dopester, dosseret, draftees, editress, escorted, estrayed, exserted, extrudes, festered, forested, fostered, gestured, headrest, inserted, lustered, mastered, modester, mustered, nerdiest, oersteds, oystered, pederast, pestered, predates, preedits, pretends, priested, readiest, redigest, reediest, relisted, renested, repasted, reseated, resected, resented, resident, resifted, resisted, reslated, resorted, respited, restaged, restated, restoked, restored, restyled, resulted, retasted, retested, retreads, revested, sceptred, secreted, sectored, sederunt, seriated, serrated, siderite, sintered, sistered, steadier, stereoed, storeyed, streaked, streamed, streeked, streeled, stressed, tarweeds, tetrodes, threshed, tiredest, trapesed, treaders, treadles, treddles, trendies, trusteed, underset, unrested, vestured, weirdest, westered, wrestled.