| acridid | (noun) grasshopper with short antennae | Synonyms: short-horned grasshopper |
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| autodidact | (noun) a person who has taught himself | - |
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| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| candid | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open |
| (adjective) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared | - |
| candida | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida | - |
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| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidate | (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: prospect |
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| (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, nominee |
| candidature | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidiasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: monilia disease, moniliasis |
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| candidly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: frankly, honestly |
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| candidness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candor, candour, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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| didactic | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactical |
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| didactical | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactic |
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| didactically | (adverb) in a didactic manner | Synonyms: pedagogically |
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| didacticism | (noun) communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive | - |
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| didactics | (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching |
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| didanosine | (noun) an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor | Synonyms: ddI, DDI, dideoxyinosine |
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| didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| diddley | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| diddly | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| diddlyshit | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| diddlysquat | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| dideoxycytosine | (noun) an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection; a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NARTI) | Synonyms: ddC, DDC, zalcitabine |
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| dideoxyinosine | (noun) an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor | Synonyms: ddI, DDI, didanosine |
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| epididymis | (noun) a convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens | - |
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| epididymitis | (noun) painful inflammation of the epididymis | - |
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| iodide | (noun) a salt or ester of hydriodic acid | - |
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| ixodid | (noun) ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head | Synonyms: hard tick |
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| katydid | (noun) large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings | - |
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| noncandidate | (noun) someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office | - |
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| paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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| psychodid | (noun) a fly of the family Psychodidae | - |
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| sordid | (adjective) meanly avaricious and mercenary | - |
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| (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, shoddy |
| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: flyblown, squalid |
| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid |
| sordidly | (adverb) in a sordid or squalid way | Synonyms: squalidly |
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| sordidness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness |
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| (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: squalidness, squalor |
| splendid | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendiferous |
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| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, magnificent |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping |
| splendidly | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, magnificently |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, magnificently, resplendently |
| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |