(organic chemistry) Two butyl groups in a molecule
dilluer
dilucid
dilucid
adj
(obsolete) clear; lucid
diluent
diluent
adj
Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, especially of water.
noun
(analytical chemistry) A solvent or other liquid preparation used to dilute a sample prior to testing.
(medicine) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
That which dilutes.
diluted
diluted
adj
That has had something added in order to dilute it.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dilute
dilutee
dilutee
noun
An unskilled worker brought in to replace a skilled one, for example during wartime.
diluter
diluter
noun
(chemistry) A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
A substance used for diluting.
dilutes
dilutes
noun
plural of dilute
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dilute
dilutor
dilutor
noun
Alternative form of diluter
diluvia
diluvia
noun
plural of diluvion
plural of diluvium
direful
direful
adj
Fearful, terrible.
disglut
disgulf
dishful
dishful
noun
As much as a dish will hold.
dispulp
disruly
disruly
adj
(obsolete) Unruly; disorderly.
dissoul
diurnal
diurnal
adj
(archaic) Published daily.
(botany) Said of a flower open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
(uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
noun
(Catholicism) A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
(archaic) A daily news publication.
(archaic) A diary or journal.
A flower that opens only in the day.
divulge
divulge
verb
(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
divulse
divulse
verb
(transitive, medicine) To pull apart forcibly.
doldrum
doldrum
adj
Boring, uninteresting.
noun
(slang, obsolete) A slothful or stupid person.
doleful
doleful
adj
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
dolours
dolours
noun
plural of dolour
dolphus
doomful
doomful
adj
Full of condemnation or destructive power.
dorsula
doubled
doubled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of double
doubler
doubler
noun
(US, dialect) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
(calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
(colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
(structural engineering) A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.
A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
One who doubles.
Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
doubles
doubles
noun
(campanology, plural only) bell changes rung on five bells
(sports, plural only) a game between pairs of players
A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.
plural of double
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of double
doublet
doublet
noun
(botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
(historical) A man’s waistcoat.
(lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
(linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
(literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
(printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
(radio) Dipole antenna.
(uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
A word ladder puzzle.
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
doucely
doucely
adv
In a douce manner.
dougald
dougall
douglas
dracula
drubble
drubbly
drucill
druella
drumble
drumble
verb
(obsolete) To do something ineptly; to bungle or bumble.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be confused.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be sluggish or lazy.
(obsolete, intransitive) To mumble in speaking.
drumler
drumlin
drumlin
noun
(geography) An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
drunkly
drunkly
adv
In a drunk manner; drunkenly.
druttle
dualism
dualism
noun
(chemistry, dated) The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities.
(philosophy) The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil.
(theology) The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.
Duality; the condition of being double.
dualist
dualist
adj
Of or supporting dualism.
noun
Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.
Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.
duality
duality
noun
(mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
(projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.
A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
dualize
dualize
verb
(transitive, road transport) To transform into a dual carriageway.
(transitive, sciences) To make dual, to find or consider the dual item of a given one.
ducally
ducally
adv
In the manner of a duke; in a way that befits a duke.
ducklar
ducklet
ducklet
noun
A duckling.
ductile
ductile
adj
(rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Molded easily into a new form.
ductule
ductule
noun
(anatomy) Any very small duct, typically lactiferous.
dudleya
duelers
duelers
noun
plural of dueler
dueling
dueling
noun
The act of taking part in a duel.
verb
present participle of duel
duelist
duelist
noun
A person who fights a duel.
duelled
duelled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of duel
dueller
dueller
noun
(British spelling) Alternative form of dueler
duellos
duffels
duffels
noun
plural of duffel
duffles
duffles
noun
plural of duffle
duggler
duhamel
dulaney
dulbert
dulcely
dulcets
dulcian
dulcian
noun
(music) A Renaissance bass woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical bore
dulcify
dulcify
verb
(obsolete) To neutralise the acidity of.
(transitive) To mollify or make peaceful.
To make sweeter or more pleasant.
To sweeten the taste of.
dulcine
dulcite
dulcite
noun
(organic chemistry) The sugar alcohol dulcitol (galactitol)
dulcity
dulcity
noun
(literary) Sweetness (literal and figurative).
dulcose
dulcose
noun
(organic chemistry) dulcite
duledge
duledge
noun
(military) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
dullard
dullard
Noun
A stupid person; a fool.
dullery
dullery
noun
dullness, stupidity
dullest
dullest
adj
superlative form of dull: most dull
dullify
dulling
dulling
verb
present participle of dull
dullish
dullish
adj
Somewhat dull; dull to a degree.
dullity
dulness
dulness
noun
Archaic spelling of dullness.
dulosis
dulosis
noun
(entomology) process by which parasitic ants steal pupae from the nests of other ants and raise them in their own nest, so that they become part of the colony and perform tasks in it.
dulotic
dulotic
adj
Of or relating to dulosis.
dulzura
dumpily
dumpily
adv
In a dumpy manner.
dumpled
dumpled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dumple
dumpler
dumsola
dundalk
dunkled
dunlavy
dunlevy
dunlins
dunlins
noun
plural of dunlin
dunnell
duodial
duologs
duologs
noun
plural of duolog
duopoly
duopoly
noun
(broadcasting, by extension) Situation in which two or more TV or radio-stations in the same city or community share common ownership.
(by extension) The domination of a field of endeavor by two people or entities.
(economics) A market situation in which two companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.
dupable
dupable
adj
Capable of being duped.
dupleix
duplexs
duplify
duplone
durable
durable
adj
Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.
noun
(economics) A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
durably
durably
adv
In a durable manner.
dureful
dureful
adj
(obsolete) lasting
durenol
durrell
durrell
Proper noun
A town in Newfoundland and Labrador
duskily
duskily
adv
In a dusky manner.
dustblu
dustily
dustily
adv
In a dusty way.
dutiful
dutiful
adj
Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
edicule
edicule
noun
Alternative form of aedicule
eluated
eluated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eluate
eluders
eluders
noun
plural of eluder
eluding
eluding
verb
present participle of elude
encloud
encloud
verb
(transitive) To envelop in clouds.
epuloid
equaled
equaled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equal
eucleid
euploid
euploid
adj
Of or pertaining to euploidy.
noun
Any organism having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
exclude
exclude
verb
(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
(transitive) To expel; to put out.
(transitive) To omit from consideration.
(transitive, law) To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
(transitive, medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
exulted
exulted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of exult
faulted
faulted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fault
feruled
feruled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ferule
floured
floured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flour
flouted
flouted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flout
flubbed
flubbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flub
flubdub
flubdub
noun
(countable) A buffoon.
(uncountable) Trivial matters; nonsense.
fluffed
fluffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fluff
fluidal
fluidal
adj
(chiefly geology) Pertaining to a fluid, or to a flowing motion.
fluidic
fluidic
adj
Of or pertaining to a fluid.
Of or pertaining to fluidics.
fluidly
fluidly
adv
In a fluid manner; smoothly.
flumped
flumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flump
flunked
flunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flunk
fluorid
fluorid
noun
Archaic form of fluoride.
flushed
flushed
adj
Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flush
foldout
foldout
adj
That folds out from a closed position
noun
A foldout bed.
An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine.
foldure
foodful
foodful
adj
(dated) Supplying food.
fordull
fordull
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make dull; stupefy.
foulard
foulard
noun
A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
foulder
foulder
verb
(obsolete) To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
fouldre
frundel
fuddled
fuddled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fuddle
fuddler
fuddler
noun
(colloquial, archaic) A drunkard.
fuddles
fuddles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuddle
fuelled
fuelled
verb
(British spelling) (Canadian spelling, common) simple past tense and past participle of fuel
fulgide
fulgide
noun
(chemistry) any of a class of photochromic cyclic acid anhydrides of dialkylidenesuccinic acid.