11-letter words containing m, i, d
- deteriorism — the belief that everything is getting worse, that the universe is deteriorating or decaying
- determinacy — the quality of being defined or fixed
- determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.
- determinate — Determinate means fixed and definite.
- determiners — Plural form of determiner.
- determining — having the quality of deciding
- determinism — Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do.
- determinist — A determinist is someone who believes in determinism.
- detrainment — The act of detraining.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diagramming — a figure, usually consisting of a line drawing, made to accompany and illustrate a geometrical theorem, mathematical demonstration, etc.
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- 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.
- diaphragmic — Which uses, or which is located in or near, the diaphragm.
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- diastematic — characterized by diastema
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- 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
- didacticism — intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- dim-sighted — with weak or indistinct vision
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- dimensioned — Simple past tense and past participle of dimension.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dimethicone — Polydimethylsiloxane.
- dimidiating — Present participle of dimidiate.
- diminishing — Make or become less.
- diminuendos — Plural form of diminuendo.
- diminuitive — Misspelling of diminutive.
- diminutions — Plural form of diminution.
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- dimitrios i — (Dimitrios Papadopoulos) 1914–91, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church 1972–91.
- dining room — a room in which meals are eaten, as in a home or hotel, especially the room in which the major or more formal meals are eaten.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.