diabatic | (adjective) involving a transfer of heat | - |
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diabetes | (noun) a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst | - |
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diabetic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing diabetes | - |
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(adjective) suffering from diabetes | - |
(noun) someone who has diabetes | - |
diablotin | (noun) a thin round slice of bread usually served with soup, especially consomme. | - |
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diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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(adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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(adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
diabolically | (adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: devilishly, fiendishly |
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diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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diabolism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: demonism, Satanism |
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diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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diacetylmorphine | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: heroin |
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diachronic | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: historical |
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diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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(noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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diadem | (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: crown |
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diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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diaeresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: dieresis |
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diaglyph | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: intaglio |
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diagnosable | (adjective) capable of being diagnosed | - |
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diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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(verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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diagnosis | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosing |
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diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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(adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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(adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
(noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
(noun) an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry | - |
(noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: bias |
(noun) (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent | - |
diagonalisation | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalization |
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diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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diagonalizable | (adjective) capable of being transformed into a diagonal matrix | - |
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diagonalization | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalisation |
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diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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diagonally | (adverb) in a diagonal manner | - |
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diagram | (noun) a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts | - |
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(verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: plot |
diagrammatic | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatical |
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diagrammatical | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatic |
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diagrammatically | (adverb) in a diagrammatic manner | Synonyms: graphically |
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diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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dial | (noun) the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours | - |
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(noun) a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called | Synonyms: telephone dial |
(noun) the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments | - |
(noun) the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning | - |
(verb) choose by means of a dial | - |
(verb) operate a dial to select a telephone number | - |
dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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(noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
(noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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dialectically | (adverb) in a dialectic manner | - |
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dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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dialog | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialogue |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialogue, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialogue |
dialogism | (noun) the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation. | - |
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dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
dialyse | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyze |
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dialysis | (noun) separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
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dialyze | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyse |
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dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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diam | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diameter |
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diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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(noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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diameter | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diam |
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(noun) a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) | - |
diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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diametric | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametrical |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametrical, opposite, polar |
diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
diametrically | (adverb) as from opposite ends of a diameter | - |
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diamine | (noun) any organic compound containing two amino groups | - |
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diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
(noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
(noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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diapason | (noun) either of the two main stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: diapason stop |
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diapedesis | (noun) passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue | - |
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diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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diaper | (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: napkin, nappy |
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(noun) a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures | - |
diaphanoscope | (noun) An instrument for illuminating the interior of a cavity to determine the translucency of its walls. | - |
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diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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diapheromera | (noun) a variety of stick insect | Synonyms: Diapheromera femorata |
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diaphone | (noun) a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones | - |
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diaphoresis | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating |
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diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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(noun) used to produce perspiration | - |
diaphragm | (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: stop |
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(noun) electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | - |
(noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, pessary |
(noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: midriff |
diaphyseal | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphysial |
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diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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diaphysis | (noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: shaft |
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diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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diapsid | (noun) reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye | Synonyms: diapsid reptile |
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diarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: dyarchy |
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diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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diarrhea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhoea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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diarrheal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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diarrheic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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diarrhetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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diarrhoea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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diarrhoeal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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diarrhoeic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoetic |
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diarrhoetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic |
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diarthrosis | (noun) a joint so articulated as to move freely | Synonyms: articulatio synovialis, synovial joint |
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diary | (noun) a personal journal (as a physical object) | - |
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(noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: journal |