6-letter words starting with di
- dinkly — neat; tidy
- dinkum — genuine; authentic.
- dinnae — (Scots) do not
- dinned — a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- dinner — the main meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
- dinnle — to (cause to) shake or tremble
- dinted — Simple past tense and past participle of dint.
- diobol — (in ancient Greece) a coin worth two obols
- diodes — Plural form of diode.
- dioecy — The condition of being dioecious.
- diotic — pertaining to or affecting both ears; binaural.
- dioxan — a colourless insoluble toxic liquid made by heating ethanediol with sulphuric acid; 1,4-diethylene dioxide: used as a solvent, esp for waxes and cellulose acetate resins. Formula: (CH2)2O(CH2)2O
- dioxin — a general name for a family of chlorinated hydrocarbons, C 12 H 4 Cl 4 O 2 , typically used to refer to one isomer, TCDD, a by-product of pesticide manufacture: a toxic compound that is carcinogenic and teratogenic in certain animals.
- dipcom — Diploma of Commerce
- diplex — pertaining to the simultaneous operation of two radio transmitters or to the simultaneous reception and transmission of radio signals over a single antenna through the use of two frequencies.
- diplo- — double
- diploe — the cancellate bony tissue between the hard inner and outer walls of the bones of the cranium.
- dipmet — Diploma in Metallurgy
- dipnet — Alt form dip net.
- dipody — a group of two feet in English poetry, in which one of the two accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary stress, used as a prosodic measurement in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse.
- dipole — Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dipped — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Major resembling a dipper in outline.
- dipsas — a member of a genus of harmless snakes (Dipsas) of the family Colubridae
- diquat — a yellow crystalline substance, C 12 H 12 Br 2 N 2 , used as a selective postemergence herbicide to control weeds on noncrop land and for aquatic weed control.
- dirdum — blame.
- direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direly — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- direst — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirges — Plural form of dirge.
- dirham — a money of account of Iraq, the 20th part of a dinar, equal to 50 fils.
- dirhem — any of various fractional silver coins issued in Islamic countries at different periods.
- dirked — Simple past tense and past participle of dirk.
- dirkes — Plural form of dirke.
- dirndl — a woman's dress with a close-fitting bodice and full skirt, commonly of colorful and strikingly patterned material, fashioned after Tyrolean peasant wear.
- disarm — to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- disbar — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- disbud — to remove leaf buds or shoots from (a plant) to produce a certain shape or effect.
- discal — relating to or resembling a disc; disclike
- disced — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- disco- — disk-shaped; discoid
- discos — Plural form of disco.
- discus — a circular disk more than 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter and 2.2 pounds (1 kg) in weight, usually wooden with a metal rim and thicker in the center than at the edge, for throwing for distance in athletic competition.
- disect — Misspelling of dissect.
- disert — (obsolete) eloquent.
- diseur — a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- dished — concave: a dished face.
- dishes — the quantity held by a dish; dishful: a dish of applesauce.
- disked — Simple past tense and past participle of disk.
- dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.