7-letter words containing d, i
- dinning — a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- diocese — an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- dionaea — the Venus's-flytrap.
- diopter — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dioptra — Alternative form of diopter.
- dioptre — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- diorama — a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
- diorism — definition; clarity
- diorite — a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- dioscin — a saponin, found in Mexican yams, that on hydrolysis produces diosgenin, glucose, and rhamnose.
- dioxane — a colorless, flammable, liquid cyclic ether, C 4 H 8 O 2 , having a faint, pleasant odor: used chiefly in the varnish and silk industries and as a dehydrator in histology.
- dioxide — an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen, each of which is bonded directly to an atom of a second element, as manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , or nitrogen dioxide, NO 2 .
- dioxins — Plural form of dioxin.
- dip net — a net attached to the end of a long pole, used to catch fish
- dip out — to miss out on or fail to participate in something
- dip-net — to scoop (fish) from water with a dip net.
- diphase — having two phases; two-phase.
- diphone — a unit of speech made up of two simple speech sounds known as phones
- dipinto — (archaeology, epigraphy) a sketched or painted (as opposed to engraved) inscription.
- diploic — of or relating to diploë
- diploid — double; twofold.
- diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- diplont — the diploid individual in a life cycle that has a diploid and a haploid phase.
- dipnoan — belonging or pertaining to the order Dipnoi, comprising the lungfishes.
- dipodal — (organic chemistry) Describing any compound in which two (of the same) functional groups are on two separate chains.
- 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.
- dipolar — Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dippers — Plural form of dipper.
- dipping — Present participle of dip.
- dipshit — a stupid or despicable person.
- diptera — the order comprising the dipterous insects.
- diptote — a substantive declined in only two cases, especially when occurring in a language in which this is less than the normal number.
- diptych — a hinged two-leaved tablet used in ancient times for writing on with a stylus.
- diquark — a low-energy configuration of two quarks attracted to one another by virtue of having antisymmetric colours and spins
- 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.
- direful — dreadful; awful; terrible.
- dirempt — to separate (something) forcefully or violently
- dirhams — Plural form of dirham.
- dirksen — Everett McKinley, 1896–1969, U.S. politician.
- dirling — to vibrate; shake.
- dirndls — Plural form of dirndl.
- dirtbag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtied — Simple past tense and past participle of dirty.
- dirtier — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- dirties — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dirty.
- dirtily — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- disable — make not work
- disally — to break free or cause to break free from an alliance or partnership
- disarms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disarm.