| ACTED | • acted v. Simple past tense and past participle of act. • ACT v. to do something in a specified way. |
| CADET | • cadet n. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer. • cadet n. (Largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would. • cadet n. (In compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.) |
| CITED | • cited v. Simple past tense and past participle of cite. • cited adj. That has a citation. • CITE v. to quote as an authority or example. |
| COTED | • coted v. Simple past tense and past participle of cote. • COTE v. to pass by; to outstrip (as one dog another). |
| DIACT | • DIACT n. a sponge spicule having two rays that develop in different directions from a single point of origin, also DIACTINE. |
| DICHT | • DICHT v. (Scots) to wipe. |
| DICOT | • dicot n. (Botany) A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. • DICOT n. (short for) a dicotyledon, a plant having two cotyledons, seed-leaves, also DICOTYL. |
| DICTA | • dicta n. Plural of dictum. • DICTUM n. (Latin) an authoritative statement. |
| DICTS | • DICT v. (obsolete) to dictate, also DICTATE. |
| DICTY | • dicty adj. (AAVE) stylish and respectable; high-class. • dicty adj. (AAVE) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious. • dicty adj. (AAVE) snobbish and uptight. |
| DITCH | • ditch n. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. • ditch n. (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. • ditch v. (Transitive) To discard or abandon. |
| DOCHT | • DOW v. to be able. |
| DUCAT | • ducat n. (Historical) A gold coin minted by various European nations. • ducat n. (Informal) A coin of the major denomination (Dollar, euro, etc.); money in general. • ducat n. (US, theater, transport, slang) A ticket. |
| DUCTS | • ducts n. Plural of duct. • ducts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of duct. • DUCT v. to transport along a duct. |
| DUTCH | • dutch n. (Slang) wife. • dutch v. Alternative letter-case form of Dutch (“treat cocoa with alkali”). • Dutch adj. Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language. |
| EDICT | • edict n. A proclamation of law or other authoritative command. • EDICT n. an authoritative order having the force of law. |
| EDUCT | • educt n. That which is educed. • educt n. (Obsolete, chemistry) A reactant. • educt v. (Engineering) To educe, to extract. |
| OCTAD | • octad n. A group of eight things. • octad n. (Historical) hundred million = myriad myriad; 100,000,000 = 108. • OCTAD n. a group of eight. |
| TICED | • ticed v. Simple past tense and past participle of tice. • TICE v. (Shakespeare) to entice. |