| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| diabase | noun | A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; — often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone. |
| diabley | noun | Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief. |
| diacope | noun | Tmesis. |
| diadrom | noun | A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum. |
| diagram | noun | A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan., Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one., To put into the form of a diagram. |
| dialled | of Dial | |
| dialing | present participle & vb. noun | of Dial, The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials., A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor. |
| dialect | noun | Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech., The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. |
| dialist | noun | A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing. |
| diallel | adjective | Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; — opposed to parallel. |
| diallyl | noun | A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series. |
| dialyze | verb t. | To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. |
| diamide | noun | Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, — as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide. |
| diamine | noun | A compound containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, — as contrasted with a diamide. |
| diamond | noun | A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness., A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge., One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond., A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups., The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles., The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen., Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field. |
| dianium | noun | Same as Columbium. |
| diapase | noun | Same as Diapason. |
| diapasm | noun | Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. |
| diarchy | noun | A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons. |
| diarial | adjective | Alt. of Diarian |
| diarian | adjective | Pertaining to a diary; daily. |
| diarist | noun | One who keeps a diary. |
| diaries | plural | of Diary |
| diastem | noun | Intervening space; interval., An interval. |
| diaster | noun | A double star; — applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis. |