11-letter words containing d, o
- diagnostics — the art or practice of diagnosis, esp of diseases
- diagonalise — Alternative spelling of diagonalize.
- diagonalize — (in linear algebra) to convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diamondized — Simple past tense and past participle of diamondize.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- dian fossey — Dian [dahy-an] /daɪˈæn/ (Show IPA), 1932–85, U.S. zoologist: expert on great apes.
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- diaphoreses — perspiration, especially when artificially induced.
- diaphoresis — a technical name for sweating
- diaphoretic — relating to or causing sweat
- diapophyses — Plural form of diapophysis.
- diapophysis — the upper or articular surface of a transverse vertebral process
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diarrhoetic — Alternative form of diarrhetic.
- diarthroses — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- diarthrosis — any freely movable joint, such as the shoulder and hip joints
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
- diatessaron — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fourth
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomist — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichromatic — having or consisting of only two colours
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- dicotyledon — any flowering plant of the class Dicotyledonae, normally having two embryonic seed leaves and leaves with netlike veins. The group includes many herbaceous plants and most families of trees and shrubs
- dictational — the act or manner of dictating for reproduction in writing.
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- dictionally — from a dictional point of view
- dictyostele — a form of stele found in some ferns, containing so many gaps that it is like a network of separate strands
- didgeridoos — Plural form of didgeridoo.
- didot point — (unit, text) A variant of the point, equal to 0.3759 mm, or 1/72 of a French Royal inch (27.07 mm), or about 1/68 inch. Didot points are used in Europe. This unit is named after the French printer François Ambroise Didot (1730 - 1804) who defined the "point-based" typographical measurement system.
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- digladiator — a person who contends or fights
- digressions — Plural form of digression.
- diisopropyl — Having two isopropyl groups.