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- English Word Dioritic Definition Containing diorite.
- English Word Diorthotic Definition Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.
- English Word Dioscorea Definition A genus of plants. See Yam.
- English Word Diota Definition A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.
- English Word Dioxide Definition An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.
- English Word Dioxide Definition An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.
- English Word Dioxindol Definition A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.
- English Word Dip Definition To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
- English Word Dip Definition To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
- English Word Dip Definition To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- English Word Dip Definition To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- English Word Dip Definition To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
- English Word Dip Definition To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- English Word Dip Definition To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- English Word Dip Definition To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
- English Word Dip Definition To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
- English Word Dip Definition To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
- English Word Dip Definition To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
- English Word Dip Definition To dip snuff.
- English Word Dip Definition The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- English Word Dip Definition Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- English Word Dip Definition A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
- English Word Dip Definition A dipped candle.
- English Word Dipaschal Definition Including two passovers.
- English Word Dipchick Definition See Dabchick.
- English Word Dipetalous Definition Having two petals; two-petaled.
- English Word Diphenyl Definition A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
- English Word Diphtheria Definition A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.
- English Word Diphtherial Definition Alt. of Diphtheric
- English Word Diphtheric Definition Relating to diphtheria; diphtheritic.