14-letter words containing di
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
- culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- daffadowndilly — a daffodil
- dandie dinmont — a breed of small terrier with a long coat and drooping ears
- deconditioning — Present participle of decondition.
- dedicated line — (communications) A telephone line leased expressly for the purpose of connecting two users more-or-less permenantly.. Such lines may be "voice grade" which provides the bandwidth and signal to noise ratio of ordinary public switched telephone network circuits, or specified in ways which allow transport of suitably encoded digital signals at faster rates. In some cases, lines may be physical wires between the communicating parties. Over longer distances, it is common for the connection to be virtual, which means that although the two users can communicate only with each other, their signals and others are multiplexed, amplified, switched, scrambled, demultiplexed and so on in complex ways between the end points. This contrasts with a dial-up connection which is only opened when one end requires it.
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- deindividuated — Simple past tense and past participle of deindividuate.
- demand feeding — the practice of feeding a baby whenever it seems to be hungry, rather than at set intervals
- deoxythymidine — (organic chemistry) thymidine.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
- diadokokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diadokokinesis — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- diagonal cloth — a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
- diagrammatical — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.
- diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamond geezer — a very nice or good man
- diamond willow — wood that may come from any species of willow and has a diamond pattern in the grain, used for making walking sticks, table lamps, etc
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- diaz rodriguez — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1927, Venezuelan author.
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- dicamptodontid — (zoology) Any member of the Dicamptodontidae.
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- dichotomically — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dichromic acid — an unstable dibasic oxidizing acid known only in solution and in the form of dichromate salts. Formula: H2Cr2O7
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
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