| A | B |
| Descent | The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower. |
| Disparity | Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence. |
| Distribution | The act of distributing or despensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. |
| Diverse | Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. |
| Domestic | Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life. |
| Efficient | causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity. |
| Eminent domain | The right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the U.S. requires that just compensation be made. |
| Enact | To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law. |
| Economics | The science of household affairs, or of domestic management. |
| Economic depression | pertaining to the national or regional economy falling below its true place |