7-letter words containing d, i, c
- diascia — a S African plant with pink flowers
- dibasic — (of an acid, such as sulphuric acid, H2SO4) containing two acidic hydrogen atoms
- dibrach — pyrrhic1 (def 3).
- dicamba — a white crystalline solid used as a weedkiller
- dichord — a musical instrument with two strings, usually of the ancient or medieval period
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- dickers — Plural form of dicker.
- dickeys — Plural form of dickey.
- dicking — (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- dickish — (US, colloquial, coarse, pejorative) Offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
- dickite — a polymorph of kaolinite.
- dickson — Leonard Eugene, 1874–1954, U.S. mathematician.
- dicofol — a white crystalline solid, C 14 H 9 Cl 5 O, derived from DDT and used to protect crops from mites.
- diconal — a brand of dipanone, an opiate drug with potent analgesic properties: used to relieve severe pain
- dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- dictier — high-class or stylish.
- diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
- dictums — Plural form of dictum.
- dicycly — the state or condition of being dicyclic
- didache — a treatise, perhaps of the 1st or early 2nd century ad, on Christian morality and practices
- didicoy — (in Britain) one of a group of caravan-dwelling roadside people who live like Gypsies but are not true Romanies
- dieback — a condition in a plant in which the branches or shoots die from the tip inward, caused by any of several bacteria, fungi, or viruses or by certain environmental conditions.
- digicam — A digital camera.
- digicom — ftp://ftp.whnet.com/pub/wolfgang, ftp://softmodem.whnet.com/pub/wolfgang, ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/wolfgang. http://ftp.whnet.com/wolfgang/.
- dimeric — a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- dinaric — of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to N Albania and extending across W Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.
- dineric — of or relating to the face of separation of two immiscible liquid phases.
- diocese — an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- dioscin — a saponin, found in Mexican yams, that on hydrolysis produces diosgenin, glucose, and rhamnose.
- diploic — of or relating to diploë
- dipodic — a group of two feet in English poetry, in which one of the two accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary stress, used as a prosodic measurement in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse.
- diptych — a hinged two-leaved tablet used in ancient times for writing on with a stylus.
- directs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of direct.
- directx — (programming, hardware) A Microsoft programming interface standard, first included with Windows 95. DirectX gives (games) programmers a standard way to gain direct access to enhanced hardware features under Windows 95 instead of going via the Windows 95 GDI. Some DirectX code runs faster than the equivalent under MS DOS. DirectX promises performance improvements for graphics, sound, video, 3D, and network capabilites of games, but only where both hardware and software support DirectX. DirectX 2 introduced the Direct3D interface. Version 5 was current at 1998-02-01. Version 8.1 is included in Windows XP.
- discage — to release (an animal or bird) from a cage
- discant — Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- discard — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discase — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- discept — To debate; to discuss.
- discern — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- discerp — To tear into pieces; to rend.
- discide — (obsolete) To cut apart; to cut into pieces.
- discing — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- discoed — Simple past tense and past participle of disco.
- discoer — a person who attends discos
- discoid — having the form of a discus or disk; flat and circular.
- discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
- discure — (obsolete) To discover; to reveal.
- discuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.