| acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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| acidimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of acids to measure the amount of a base present | - |
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| bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| ceftazidime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade names Fortaz and Tazicef) used to treat moderate infections | Synonyms: Fortaz, Tazicef |
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| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| dim | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dimmed |
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| (adjective) lacking in light; not bright or harsh | Synonyms: subdued |
| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, bleak |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (verb) make dim or lusterless | - |
| (verb) become dim or lusterless | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: blind |
| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, slur |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dip |
| dime | (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars | Synonyms: dime bag |
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| (noun) a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar | - |
| dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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| dimension | (noun) the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) | - |
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| (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: proportion |
| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, property |
| (noun) one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space | - |
| (verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
| (verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
| dimensional | (adjective) of or relating to dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person | - |
| dimensionality | (noun) the spatial property of having dimensions | - |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| dimer | (noun) a compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers | - |
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| dimethylglyoxime | (noun) a compound used in analysis as a precipitant for palladium or nickel | - |
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| dimetrodon | (noun) carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail | - |
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| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
| (adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
| diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| dimity | (noun) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains | - |
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| dimly | (adverb) in a dim indistinct manner | Synonyms: indistinctly |
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| (adverb) in a manner lacking interest or vitality | Synonyms: palely, pallidly |
| (adverb) with a dim light | Synonyms: murkily |
| dimmed | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dim |
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| dimmer | (noun) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination | - |
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| dimness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: subduedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: faintness |
| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: duskiness |
| dimorphic | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphous |
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| dimorphism | (noun) (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms | - |
| dimorphous | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphic |
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| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| dimple | (noun) a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin | - |
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| (noun) any slight depression in a surface | - |
| (noun) a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached | Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad |
| (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
| (verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
| dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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| embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
| impediment | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance |
| impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
| multidimensional | (adjective) having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects | - |
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| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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| rudiment | (noun) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life | - |
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| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| rudiments | (noun) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) | Synonyms: alphabet, first principles |
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| (noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: basics |
| sediment | (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: deposit |
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| (verb) settle as sediment | - |
| (verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| sedimentation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, deposit |
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| subdimension | (noun) a partial dimension that constitutes the entire dimension of a given object. | - |
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| undiminished | (adjective) not lessened or diminished | Synonyms: unrelieved |
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| undimmed | (adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: bright |
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| unidimensional | (adjective) relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope | Synonyms: one-dimensional |
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