| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| diabetes | noun | A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. |
| diabetic | adjective | Alt. of Diabetical |
| diabolic | adjective | Alt. of Diabolical |
| diaconal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a deacon. |
| diaglyph | noun | An intaglio. |
| diagnose | verb t. & i. | To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate. |
| diagonal | adjective | Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides., A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts., A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel., A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving. |
| diagraph | noun | A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale. |
| dialling | of Dial | |
| diallage | noun | A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point., A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks. |
| dialogue | noun | A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises., A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato., To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize., To express as in dialogue. |
| dialyses | plural | of Dialysis |
| dialysis | noun | Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1., Same as Asyndeton., Debility., A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts., The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes. |
| dialytic | adjective | Having the quality of unloosing or separating. |
| dialyzed | imp. & past participle | of Dialyze, Prepared by diffusion through an animal membrane; as, dialyzed iron. |
| dialyzer | noun | The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis. |
| diameter | noun | Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve., A diametral plane., The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock., The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module. |
| diamido- | adjective | A prefix or combining form of Diamine. [Also used adjectively.] |
| diandria | noun pl. | A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens. |
| dianthus | noun | A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William. |
| diapason | noun | The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale., Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony., The entire compass of tones., A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason., One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like. |
| diapente | noun | The interval of the fifth., A composition of five ingredients. |
| diaphane | noun | A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work. |
| diaphote | noun | An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. |
| diapnoic | adjective | Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic., A gentle diaphoretic. |
| diarrhea | noun | Alt. of Diarrhoea |
| diaspore | noun | A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; — so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe. |
| diastase | noun | A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar. |
| diastema | noun | A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw. |
| diastole | noun | The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; — correlative to systole, or contraction., A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long. |
| diastyle | noun | See under Intercolumniation. |
| diatomic | adjective | Containing two atoms., Having two replaceable atoms or radicals. |
| diatonic | adjective | Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. |
| diatribe | noun | A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. |
| diatryma | noun | An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich. |