Diathermal (a.) Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Diathermancy (n.) Alt. of Diathermaneity
Diathermaneity (n.) The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.
Diathermanism (n.) The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.
Diathermanous (a.) Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.
Diathermic (a.) Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances.
Diathermometer (n.) An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.
Diathermous (a.) Same as Diathermal.
Diathesis (n.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
Diathetic (a.) Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.
Diatom (n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
Diatom (n.) A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.
Diatomic (a.) Containing two atoms.
Diatomic (a.) Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
Diatomous (a.) Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals.
Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
Diatonically (adv.) In a diatonic manner.
Diatribe (n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
Diatribist (n.) One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.
Diatryma (n.) An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.
Diazeuctic (a.) Alt. of Diazeutic
Diazeutic (a.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth.
Diazo- () A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.
Diazotize (v. t.) To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.
Dib (v. i.) To dip.
Dib (n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
Dib (n.) A child's game, played with dib bones.
Dibasic (a.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.
Dibasicity (n.) The property or condition of being dibasic.
Dibber (n.) A dibble.
Dibble (v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
Dibbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dibble
Dibbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dibble
Dibble (v. i.) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.
Dibble (v. t.) To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
Dibbler (n.) One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.
Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.
Dibranchiate (a.) Having two gills.
Dibranchiate (n.) One of the Dibranchiata.
Dibs (n.) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
Dibstone (n.) A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.
Dibutyl (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.
Dicacious (a.) Talkative; pert; saucy.
Dicacity (n.) Pertness; sauciness.
Dicalcic (a.) Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.
Dicarbonic (a.) Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
Dicast (n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.
Dicastery (n.) A court of justice; judgment hall.
Die (pl. ) of Dice
Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.
Diced (imp. & p. p.) of Dice
Dicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dice
Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.
Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Dicebox (n.) A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).
Dicephalous (a.) Having two heads on one body; double-headed.
Dicer (n.) A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
Dich (v. i.) To ditch.
Dichastic (a.) Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
Dichlamydeous (a.) Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.
Dichloride (n.) Same as Bichloride.
Dichogamous (a.) Manifesting dichogamy.
Dichogamy (n.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
Dichotomist (n.) One who dichotomizes.
Dichotomized (imp. & p. p.) of Dichotomize
Dichotomizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dichotomize
Dichotomize (v. t.) To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
Dichotomize (v. t.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3.
Dichotomize (v. i.) To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
Dichotomous (a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
Dichotomy (n.) A cutting in two; a division.
Dichotomy (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
Dichotomy (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
Dichotomy (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
Dichotomy (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.
Dichroic (a.) Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dichroiscope (n.) Same as Dichroscope.
Dichroism (n.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.
Dichroite (n.) Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
Dichroitic (a.) Dichroic.
Dichromate (n.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
Dichromatic (a.) Having or exhibiting two colors.
Dichromatic (a.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
Dichromatism (n.) The state of being dichromatic.
Dichromic (a.) Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.
Dichroous (a.) Dichroic.
Dichroscope (n.) An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.
Dichroscopic (a.) Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.
Dicing (n.) An ornamenting in squares or cubes.
Dicing (n.) Gambling with dice.
Dickcissel (n.) The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).
Dickens (n. / interj.) The devil.
Dicker (n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
Dicker (v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.
Dickey (n.) Alt. of Dicky
Dicky (n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.