| dibs | n. | small amounts of money | ||
| dicrotic | adj. | of a pulse having two beats for every heartbeat | ||
| didact | n. | pedant, person inclined to teach others | ||
| didicoy | n. | gypsy, esp. non-Romani traveler | ||
| dido | n. | bauble, trifle | ||
| diegetic | adj. | of a narration or narrative, told by a narrator; of events or objects within the world of a story | ||
| diehard | n. | a person obstinately resistant to change; someone holding to a tenet with no single inclination to question that belief; person devoted entirely to a lost cause | ||
| diekplous | n. | ancient naval battle maneuver in which a line of galleys rows between ships in an opposing line so as to attack the enemy’s weaker stern and sides; sometimes thought to be a maneuver wherein a single war galley shipps oars on one side and turns at the l | ||
| dielectric | adj. | non-conductor, insulator; electrically non-conducting | ||
| diencephalon | n. | back of the forebrain | ||
| dietrologia | n. | conspiracy theory, science of discerning hidden motives behind events | ||
| diffident | adj. | lacking confidence in one’s capability; timid | ||
| dight | v. | to dress | archaic | |
| diligence | n. | public stagecoach of early 18th Century, esp. in France | ||
| diluvial | adj. | of or related to flooding or floods, esp. to the Biblical flood | ||
| diminuendo | adv. | gradually decreasing in loudness | ||
| dimity | n. | stout thin cotton fabric, with raised stripes | ||
| dindle | v. | to tingle; to tremble | ||
| dingle | n. | 1 | wooded valley | |
| dingle | adj. | 1 | clement, having nice weather | |
| dioecious | adj. | having male and female sex organs in separate individuals (esp. of plants) | biology | |
| diplopia | n. | double vision | ||
| dirndl | n. | outfit patterned after that of Alps peasants, consisting of a bodice over a low-cut blouse with a full skirt and (possibly) an apron | ||
| disadorned | adj. | bereft of ornaments | ||
| disanalogy | n. | inaptness or lack of analogy between two things; failure of an analogy | ||
| disannul | v. | to abolish, to cancel utterly | ||
| disbound | adj. | (of a book) having the binding removed or loose | ||
| discalced | adj. | shoeless | ||
| discectomy | n. | cutting out part or all of a spinal disc | ||
| discerption | n. | pulling or tearing into separate pieces, rending | ||
| discobolus | n. | discus thrower; statue of same | ||
| dish | v. | (obsolete) to ‘do for’; to cheat | slang | |
| disherison | n. | act of disinheriting | archaic | |
| disjoint | v. | to dislocate, dismember; to derange | ||
| dislimn | v. | to efface the outlines of, to make indistinct | ||
| dispart | v. | to separate into parts; to cleave | ||
| dispositive | adj. | relating to settlement or disposition | ||
| dissensus | n. | widespread disagreement or dissension | ||
| dissimulate | v. | dissemble, conceal (one’s true motives, appearance, etc.) | ||
| dissipate | v. | to disperse; to squander, to waste; to lose energy through conversion to heat | ||
| dissolute | adj. | debauched, licentious, morally lax | ||
| distaff | n. | stave used to hold unspun fiber during spinning; women; female side of a family; female heir | ||
| distemper | v. | to paint with distemper, a paint using glue or size instead of oil as base; [British] to whitewash | ||
| distrain | v. | to compel performance of some obligation by seizure of good, etc. | law | |
| distrait | adj. | distracted, absent-minded | ||
| dithyrambic | adj. | extremely excited or emotional, frenzied, impassioned | ||
| diuturnity | n. | state of lasting for a very long time | ||
| divagate | v. | to wander or stray from place to place, or subject to subject | ||
| divaricate | v. | to spread apart, to diverge | ||
| dividers | n. | compass used to measure or divide lines on a map or plan |
