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  • diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
  • diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
  • diotheletical — relating to ditheletism, the doctrine that Christ had two wills
  • direct method — a technique of foreign-language teaching in which only the target language is used, little instruction is given concerning formal rules of grammar, and language use is often elicited in situational contexts.
  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
  • dolichocephal — a person with a head much longer than it is broad
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • dyothelitical — relating to dyotheletism
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • echoic memory — the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished
  • ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
  • eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
  • electrochemic — electrochemical
  • electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
  • electrophilic — (of a molecule or group) having a tendency to attract or acquire electrons.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
  • ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
  • eschatologies — Plural form of eschatology.
  • eschscholzias — Plural form of eschscholzia.
  • ethanoic acid — acetic acid
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
  • ethologically — In an ethological manner.
  • exothermicity — (chemistry, physics) The release of heat during an exothermic reaction.
  • ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
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