| antediluvial | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvian |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: ancient |
| (noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge | Synonyms: antediluvian patriarch |
| armadillo | (noun) burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates | - |
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| audile | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: auditive, auditory |
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| (noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
| bawdily | (adverb) in a bawdy manner | - |
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| bloodily | (adverb) involving a great bloodshed | - |
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| bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| (adverb) in bodily form | - |
| bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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| carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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| cedilla | (noun) a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s | - |
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| coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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| dandily | (adverb) in a dandy manner | - |
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| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dilapidated | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| dilapidation | (noun) the process of becoming dilapidated | Synonyms: ruin |
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| (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: decrepitude |
| dilatation | (noun) the act of expanding an aperture | Synonyms: dilation |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: distension, distention |
| dilate | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: distend |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| dilater | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilator |
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| dilation | (noun) the act of expanding an aperture | Synonyms: dilatation |
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| (noun) a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic | - |
| dilator | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilater |
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| (noun) a drug that causes dilation | - |
| (noun) a muscle or nerve that dilates or widens a body part | - |
| dilatoriness | (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: procrastination |
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| dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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| dildo | (noun) a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
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| dilemma | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: quandary |
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| dilettante | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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| (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist |
| dilettanteish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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| dilettantish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, sciolistic |
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| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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| (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
| diligently | (adverb) with diligence; in a diligent manner | - |
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| dill | (noun) aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning | Synonyms: dill weed |
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| (noun) aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: Anethum graveolens |
| dillenia | (noun) any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves | - |
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| dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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| dillydally | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall |
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| diltiazem | (noun) a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure | Synonyms: Cardizem |
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| diluent | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: dilutant, thinner |
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| dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| diluted | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: dilute |
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| dilution | (noun) weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner | - |
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| (noun) a diluted solution | - |
| diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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| diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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| dowdily | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: frumpily, frumpishly |
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| faddily | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddishly |
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| gaudily | (adverb) in a tastelessly garish manner | Synonyms: garishly, tawdrily |
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| giddily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: dizzily, light-headedly |
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| goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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| granadilla | (noun) the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers | - |
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| (noun) tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit | Synonyms: giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis |
| (noun) Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora edulis, purple granadillo |
| (noun) considered best for fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla |
| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| grandiloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| grandiloquent | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
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| (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: magniloquent, tall |
| grandiloquently | (adverb) in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner | Synonyms: magniloquently |
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| greedily | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: avariciously, covetously |
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| handily | (adverb) with no difficulty | Synonyms: hands down |
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| (adverb) in a convenient manner | Synonyms: conveniently |
| hediondilla | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: coville, creosote bush, Larrea tridentata |
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| minoxidil | (noun) a vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension; one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness | Synonyms: Loniten, Rogaine |
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| modillion | (noun) (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice | - |
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| moodily | (adverb) in a moody manner | - |
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| peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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| postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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| (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
| predilection | (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, preference |
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| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, preference, taste |
| quesadilla | (noun) a tortilla that is filled with cheese and heated | - |
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| readily | (adverb) without much difficulty | - |
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| (adverb) in a punctual manner | Synonyms: promptly, pronto |
| rowdily | (adverb) in a rowdy manner | Synonyms: raucously |
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| sapodilla | (noun) tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp | Synonyms: sapodilla plum, sapota |
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| (noun) large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras | Synonyms: Achras zapota, Manilkara zapota, sapodilla tree |
| shoddily | (adverb) in a shoddy manner | - |
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| speedily | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, quickly, rapidly |
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| steadily | (adverb) in a steady manner | Synonyms: steady |
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| (adverb) at a steady rate or pace | - |
| sturdily | (adverb) in a sturdy manner | - |
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| tardily | (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slow, slowly |
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| (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: belatedly, late |
| tidily | (adverb) in a tidy manner | - |
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| undiluted | (adjective) not diluted | - |
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| unsteadily | (adverb) in an unsteady manner | Synonyms: falteringly, uncertainly |
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| untidily | (adverb) in a messy, untidy manner | Synonyms: messily |
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| vasodilation | (noun) dilation of blood vessels (especially the arteries) | - |
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| vasodilative | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilator |
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| vasodilator | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilative |
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| windily | (adverb) in a verbose manner | Synonyms: long-windedly, verbosely, wordily |
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| wordily | (adverb) in a verbose manner | Synonyms: long-windedly, verbosely, windily |
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