cystocentesis
puncture of the bladder (of an animal), through the abdominal wall, in order to obtain a sample of urine

cystopeltid
Any slug in the family Cystopeltidae.

cystopeltids
plural of cystopeltid

cytherellid
Any ostracod in the family Cytherellidae.

cytherellids
plural of cytherellid

cytheroidean
Any ostracod of the superfamily Cytheroidea

cytheroideans
plural of cytheroidean

cytobiont
An organism involved in cytobiosis.

cytobionts
plural of cytobiont

cytogenomics
The cytogenetic analysis of chromosome aberrations

cytoophidia
plural of cytoophidium

cytoophidium
A filamentous intracellular compartment in some organisms

cytoproct
The anal opening in a unicellular organism.

cytoprocts
plural of cytoproct

cytula
The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, whose development produces the child or other organism.

cytulas
plural of cytula

daboia
A large, venomous Asiatic viper of the genus Daboia.

daboias
plural of daboia

dace
A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.

daces
plural of dace

dachshound
Archaic form of dachshund.

dachshounds
plural of dachshound

dachshund
A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

dachshunde
plural of dachshund

dachshundes
plural of dachshunde

dachshunds
plural of dachshund

dachsie
A dachshund.

dachsies
plural of dachsie

dactylogyrosis
The pathological condition of a fish being infested with gill flukes (Dactylogyrus), a type of flatworm.

dactylopodite
The distal segment of the ambulatory limbs of some arthropods

dactylopodites
plural of dactylopodite

daedalia
Miscellaneous items of an especially complex, intricate, ingenious (etc.) nature

daesiid
Any member of the Daesiidae.

daesiids
plural of daesiid

daggertooth
Any of the genus Anotopterus of aulopiform fish, with large mouths and sharp teeth.

daggertooth pike conger
Muraenesox cinereus, a species of eel native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

dai
A wet nurse; a midwife.

daing
Dried fish, usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun- and air-dried.

dajid
Any member of the family Dajidae of tiny ectoparasites of krill.

dajids
plural of dajid

dalatiid
Any member of the shark family Dalatiidae.

dalatiids
plural of dalatiid

dalcerid
Any in the family Dalceridae of moths.

dalcerids
plural of dalcerid

dalgite
A rabbit-eared bandicoot; a bilby.

dalgites
plural of dalgite

dalmanitid
Any trilobite of the family Dalmanitidae.

dalmanitids
plural of dalmanitid

damalisk
Any antelope of the genus Damaliscus.

damalisks
plural of damalisk

damesellid
Any trilobite in the family Damesellidae.

damesellids
plural of damesellid

damoisel
Obsolete spelling of damsel.

damoiselle
Obsolete spelling of damsel.

damoiselles
plural of damoiselle

damoisels
plural of damoisel

damosel
Obsolete spelling of damsel.

damosell
Obsolete spelling of damsel.

damosells
plural of damosell

damosels
plural of damosel

damozel
Obsolete form of damsel.

damozels
plural of damozel

damsel
A young woman (of noble birth).
A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience).
A young woman who is not married.
An unmarried lady-in-waiting.
A chattering damsel (component of a mill).

damselfish
Most fish in the Pomacentridae family.

damselfishes
plural of damselfish

damsels
plural of damsel

danaid
Any member of the family Danaidae, now considered to be the nymphalid subfamily Danainae.

danaids
plural of danaid

dandarabilla
Synonym of inland taipan.

danio
Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario.

danionin
Any of a group of small minnow-like cyprinid fish

danionins
plural of danionin

danios
plural of danio

dapdap
The Indian coral tree, Erythrina variegata.

dapdaps
plural of dapdap

daphnid
Any water flea of the genus Daphnia

daphnids
plural of daphnid

daphniid
Any water flea of the family Daphniidae

daphniids
plural of daphniid

daraelitid
Any ammonite in the family Daraelitidae.

daraelitids
plural of daraelitid

darkies
plural of darky
plural of darkie

darner
One who darns.
A needle used for darning, a darning needle.
Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a hawker.

darse
Obsolete form of dace.

dartfish
Any fish of the subfamily Ptereleotrinae of the perciform (or gobiiform) family Microdesmidae.

dartfishes
plural of dartfish

daruma
A hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.

darumas
plural of daruma

darwinulid
Any ostracod of the family Darwinulidae

darwinulids
plural of darwinulid

dashhound
Alternative form of dachshund.

dashhounds
plural of dashhound

dasia
Synonym of rough breathing.

dassie
A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax.

dassy
Alternative form of dassie.

dasypodid
Any armadillo in the family Dasypodidae.

dasypodids
plural of dasypodid

dasyproctid
Any member of the family Dasyproctidae of agoutis and acouchis

dasyproctids
plural of dasyproctid

dasyurid
A member of the family Dasyuridae, comprising carnivorous marsupials.

daubentoniid
Any lemur in the family Daubentoniidae, of which the only living species is the aye-aye.

daubentoniids
plural of daubentoniid

dauer
A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.

dauerlarva
A morphologically recognizable, nongrowing stage in the postembryological development of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

dauerlarvae
plural of dauerlarva

dauermodification
The persistence of an abnormal characteristic – generally an environmentally induced trait – over several generations of the organism. Such characteristics are inherited through the cytoplasm and tend to disappear after a few generations.

dauermodifications
plural of dauermodification

dauers
plural of dauer

dauw
Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).

dauws
plural of dauw

davatchan
Salvelinus alpinus erythrinus, a subspecies of saibling native to Lake Baikal, Russia.

dawcock
A jackdaw.
A silly fellow.

dawcocks
plural of dawcock

daybeam
A sunbeam.

deady
(A nickname for) gin, or a particular kind of gin.

dealfish
A deep-sea ribbonfish of species Trachipterus arcticus, from the North Atlantic,

dealfishes
plural of dealfish

death adder
Any snake of the genus Acanthophis, a group of highly venomous elapids found in Australia and New Guinea.
A copperhead, a venomous pit viper species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in North America.
An eastern hognose snake, Heterodon platirhinos, a non-venomous colubrid species found in North America.

deathbird
Tengmalm's owl (Nyctala tengmalmi)

deathbirds
plural of deathbird

deathstalker
Leiurus quinquestriatus, an extremely venomous scorpion of the family Buthidae.
Any of various other species of the same genus.

deathstalkers
plural of deathstalker

decaton
The tenth segment of an insect.

deckhand
A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour.
A stagehand.

deckhands
plural of deckhand

deckie
deckhand

deckies
plural of deckie

decomposer
A substance or an organism, such as a bacterium or fungus, which carries out the process of decomposition of organic material.

decomposers
plural of decomposer

deepsea fangjaw
Synonym of spark anglemouth.

deepsea lightfish
Synonym of spark anglemouth.

deepwater big-eyed worm eel
Scolecenchelys castlei, a species of snake-eel found off the coast of New Zealand.

deepwater cardinalfish
Any of the small perciform fishes in the family Epigonidae

deerburger
A hamburger made with meat from a deer instead of beef.

deerburgers
plural of deerburger

deerflesh
The meat or flesh of a deer; venison.

deerfood
Plants that can be eaten by deer.

deergut
The gut of a deer, traditionally used as a material.

deerhorn
horn from a deer