| ACIDOPHILES | • acidophiles n. Plural of acidophile. • ACIDOPHILE n. a substance, tissue or organism that stains readily with acid stains, also ACIDOPHIL. |
| ACIDOPHILUS | • acidophilus n. Lactobacillus acidophilus, one of the bacteria commonly used in fermenting yogurt. • ACIDOPHILUS n. a bacterium used to counter intestinal imbalance and in making yoghurt. |
| ANHIDROTICS | • anhidrotics n. Plural of anhidrotic. • ANHIDROTIC n. a substance that suppresses sweating. |
| APHIDICIDES | • aphidicides n. Plural of aphidicide. • APHIDICIDE n. something that kills aphids, also APHICIDE. |
| APHRODISIAC | • aphrodisiac adj. Arousing or intensifying sexual desire. • aphrodisiac n. Something, generally a food or drug, having such an effect. • APHRODISIAC n. an agent (as a food or drug) that arouses or is held to arouse sexual desire. |
| DIACHRONIES | • diachronies n. Plural of diachrony. • DIACHRONY n. the historical development of a language etc. |
| DIACHRONISM | • DIACHRONISM n. the study of a subject, esp. a language, through its historical development. |
| DIASTROPHIC | • diastrophic adj. Relating to diastrophism. • DIASTROPHIC adj. relating to diastrophism. |
| DICEPHALISM | • DICEPHALISM n. the state of being dicephalous, having two heads. |
| DICHASIALLY | • DICHASIAL adv. relating to a dichasium, a flower cluster. |
| DICHOGAMIES | • DICHOGAMY n. an arrangement for preventing the self-fertilization of hermaphrodite flowers, the stamens and stigmas ripening at different times. |
| DISACCHARID | • DISACCHARID n. any of a class of sugars, such as maltose, lactose, and sucrose, having two linked monosaccharide units per molecule. |
| DISCHARGING | • discharging v. Present participle of discharge. • discharging n. The act or process by which something is discharged. • DISCHARGE v. to free from or relieve of a charge of any kind. |
| DISENCHAINS | • disenchains v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenchain. • DISENCHAIN v. to free from restraint. |
| DISHARMONIC | • disharmonic adj. Not harmonic. • disharmonic adj. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation that is an odd number of generations distant… • DISHARMONIC adj. out of harmony, discordant, also DYSHARMONIC. |
| DISPATCHING | • dispatching n. The sending of somebody or something to a destination for a purpose. • dispatching n. (Informal) burial. • dispatching v. Present participle of dispatch. |
| HAGGADISTIC | • Haggadistic adj. Of or relating to the Haggadah. • HAGGADISTIC adj. relating to the haggadah. |
| HINDCASTING | • hindcasting n. Testing by use of hindcasts. • HINDCAST v. to test a mathematical model by inputting known or closely estimated data for past events to see how well the output matches the known results. |
| HUDIBRASTIC | • hudibrastic adj. Alternative spelling of Hudibrastic. • Hudibrastic adj. Of, or relating to a style of English verse that mocks heroic verse. • HUDIBRASTIC adj. boastful. |
| SANDWICHING | • sandwiching v. Present participle of sandwich. • SANDWICH v. to place between two objects. |