11-letter words starting with di
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- dilapidated — reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect.
- dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
- dilatations — Plural form of dilatation.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dilettantes — Plural form of dilettante.
- dill pickle — a cucumber pickle flavored with dill.
- dilly-dally — to loiter or vacillate
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- 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.
- dineolignan — (organic compound) Any compound having a structure based on a dineolignane.
- ding-a-ling — a stupid, foolish, or eccentric person.
- dingleberry — Slang. a small clot of dung, as clinging to the hindquarters of an animal.
- dining area — room or hall in which meals are served
- dining hall — a large room in which meals are served to members of a special group and their guests, as to the students and faculty of a college.
- 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.
- dinner bell — signal: dinnertime
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinner lady — female cook in school canteen
- dinner ring — a woman's ring, usually with a large, ornate setting.
- dinner roll — a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal
- dinner suit — a dinner jacket and trousers, often worn with a bow tie at formal events
- dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
- dinnerwares — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
- dinosaurian — pertaining to or of the nature of a dinosaur.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dio cassius — ?155–?230 ad, Roman historian. His History of Rome covers the period of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diophantine — Alternative capitalization of Diophantine.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.
- diotheletic — relating to diothelism
- dioxonitric — as in dioxonitric acid, the systematic name of nitrous acid
- dioxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze reactions involving molecular oxygen.
- dip-netting — the activity of catching fish using a dip-net