| die | (noun) a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers | Synonyms: dice |
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| (noun) a device used for shaping metal | - |
| (noun) a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods | - |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) disappear or come to an end | - |
| (verb) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, pall |
| (verb) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player | - |
| (verb) cut or shape with a die | Synonyms: die out |
| (verb) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame | - |
| (verb) languish as with love or desire | - |
| (verb) feel indifferent towards | - |
| (verb) suffer or face the pain of death | - |
| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| diehard | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| dieresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: diaeresis |
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| diesel | (noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil | Synonyms: diesel engine, diesel motor |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| diesis | (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a third cross reference or footnote after the asterisk and the dagger have been used | Synonyms: double dagger, double obelisk |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrum | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrus |
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| diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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| diet | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: dieting |
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| (noun) a prescribed selection of foods | - |
| (noun) the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) | - |
| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan) | - |
| (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
| dieter | (noun) a person who diets | - |
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| dietetic | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetical |
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| dietetical | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetic |
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| dietetics | (noun) the scientific study of food preparation and intake | - |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| dietician | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietitian |
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| dieting | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: diet |
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| dietitian | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietician |
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