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  • English Word Dicer Definition A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
  • English Word Dich Definition To ditch.
  • English Word Dichastic Definition Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
  • English Word Dichlamydeous Definition Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.
  • English Word Dichloride Definition Same as Bichloride.
  • English Word Dichogamous Definition Manifesting dichogamy.
  • English Word Dichogamy Definition The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
  • English Word Dichotomist Definition One who dichotomizes.
  • English Word Dichotomize Definition To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
  • English Word Dichotomize Definition To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3.
  • English Word Dichotomize Definition To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
  • English Word Dichotomized Definition of Dichotomize
  • English Word Dichotomizing Definition of Dichotomize
  • English Word Dichotomous Definition Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
  • English Word Dichotomy Definition A cutting in two; a division.
  • English Word Dichotomy Definition Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
  • English Word Dichotomy Definition That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
  • English Word Dichotomy Definition Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
  • English Word Dichotomy Definition The place where a stem or vein is forked.
  • English Word Dichotomy Definition Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.
  • English Word Dichroic Definition Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
  • English Word Dichroiscope Definition Same as Dichroscope.
  • English Word Dichroism Definition The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.
  • English Word Dichroite Definition Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
  • English Word Dichroitic Definition Dichroic.
  • English Word Dichromate Definition A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
  • English Word Dichromatic Definition Having or exhibiting two colors.
  • English Word Dichromatic Definition Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
  • English Word Dichromatism Definition The state of being dichromatic.
  • English Word Dichromic Definition Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.