de·ser·tion 
(dĭ-zûrshən)
(dĭ-zûrshən)n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of deserting.
b. The state of being deserted.
2. Law
a. Willful abandonment of a spouse or child owed a duty of support.
b. The willful, permanent separation of one spouse from the other without acceptable cause or the other's consent, considered as a ground for divorce.
- decompositional
- decompound
- decompound
- decompress
- decompression
- decompression chamber
- decompression sickness
- deconcentrate
- deconcentration
- decondition
- decongest
- decongestant
- decongestion
- decongestive
- deconsecrate
- deconsecration
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- deconstructionism
- deconstructionist
- deconstructive
- deconstructivism
- deconstructivist
- decontaminant
- decontaminate