10-letter words containing di
- diplococci — any of several spherical bacteria occurring in pairs, as Diplococcus pneumoniae.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- diprotodon — Any individual of the extinct marsupial genus Diprotodon, similar to a wombat in appearance but the size of a small elephant.
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- direct dye — any of a number of dyes that can be applied without the use of a mordant. They are usually azo dyes applied to cotton or rayon from a liquid bath containing an electrolyte such as sodium sulphate
- direct hit — If a place suffers a direct hit, a bomb, bullet, or other missile that has been aimed at it lands exactly in that place, rather than some distance away.
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- directions — the act or an instance of directing.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- directness — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- directoire — noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of the mid-1790s, characterized by an increasing use of Greco-Roman forms along with an introduction, toward the end, of Egyptian motifs: usually includes the Consulate period.
- directress — a woman who is a director.
- directrice — a female director
- diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
- dirigibles — Plural form of dirigible.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt floor — a floor made of packed earth
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirty bomb — a nuclear warhead designed to produce a great amount of radioactive debris by use of a fusion core, fission trigger, and casing of uranium-238.
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
- dirty rice — a Cajun dish of rice cooked with herbs and often chicken livers.
- dirty word — a vulgar or taboo word; obscenity.
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disability — lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disaccords — Plural form of disaccord.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanalogy — A lack or failure of analogy.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disappears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear.
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.