dossard
A bib attached to the back of a cyclist's shirt that carries the cyclist's race number.

dossards
plural of dossard

doubletail
Any of a number of orchids of the genus Diuris; donkey orchids.

doubletails
plural of doubletail

doucker
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:
Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:

douckers
plural of doucker

douradas
plural of dourada

downregulation
The suppression of a response to a stimulus
The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity

downregulations
plural of downregulation

downscalings
plural of downscaling

doz
Abbreviation of dozen (a set of twelve).

dozen
A set of twelve.
A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
The number twelve.

dozenals
plural of dozenal

dozenful
Synonym of dozen.

dozenfuls
plural of dozenful

dozens
plural of dozen

drachms
plural of drachm

drawee
The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque.

drawees
plural of drawee

drawerful
The contents of a full drawer.
The amount that fills a drawer.

drawerfuls
plural of drawerful

drawersful
plural of drawerful

drayful
Synonym of drayload.

drayfuls
plural of drayful.

drayload
The amount (of material or goods) that can be loaded onto a dray.
The load on a dray.

drayloads
plural of drayload

drinkfest
An event where large amounts of alcoholic drink are consumed.

drinkfests
plural of drinkfest

drizzlings
plural of drizzling

dubnium
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Db) with atomic number 105.
A rejected name for rutherfordium.

dubplate
An acetate or vinyl record pressed in very limited numbers, especially one issued to disc jockeys in advance of an official release; specifically (and originally), one containing a piece of dub music (a style of reggae music, often instrumental, involving the mixing of different audio tracks).

dubplates
plural of dubplate

duckpower
A unit of power that is equal to approximately 0.0076 horsepower, or where 1 horsepower equals 131.2 duckpower.

ductopenia
A reduction in the number of intrahepatic bile ducts

ductus
The number of strokes that make up a written letter, and the direction, sequence and speed in which they are written (Compare graph; see also aspect.)
A subtle reduction of weight towards the middle of the stroke of the letter.
A duct, tube or canal in the body.

duilian
a pair of content-related lines with same number of characters, same part of speech in each corresponding word, inverse tone patterns in each corresponding character, oblique tone as the last character of first line; (by extension) a physical object (often a scroll, plaque, or paper strip) inscribed with such text

duilians
plural of duilian

dunam
An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²).

dunams
plural of dunam

dunum
Alternative form of dunam.

dunums
plural of dunum

duodecimals
plural of duodecimal

duoplurals
plural of duoplural

duration
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

durations
plural of duration

dvigu
A form of tatpuruṣa in which the modifying member is a number.

dvigus
plural of dvigu

dweomers
plural of dweomer

dwt
Deadweight ton; deadweight tonnage.
pennyweight

dynamimeter
Obsolete spelling of dynamometer.

dynamimeters
plural of dynamimeter

dynamometer
Any of various devices used to measure mechanical power, force, or torque.

dynamometers
plural of dynamometer

dyne
A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.

dynes
plural of dyne

dyno
A dynamic climbing move or jump to reach a hold that cannot otherwise be reached.
A dynamometer.

dynos
plural of dyno

dyschronometria
A form of cerebellar dysfunction in which one cannot accurately estimate the amount of time that has passed.

dyselectrolytaemia
Alternative form of dyselectrolytemia.

dyselectrolytemia
An incorrect amount of an electrolyte in the blood

dyshemoglobinemia
The state or condition in which hemoglobin amounts and/or function are disturbed in any of various ways, as a clinical feature of any of various diseases.
Any of the various disorders or diseases that comprise this feature.

dyshemoglobinemias
plural of dyshemoglobinemia

dyslipoproteinaemia
Alternative form of dyslipoproteinemia.

dyslipoproteinaemias
plural of dyslipoproteinaemia

dyslipoproteinemia
Any condition caused by inappropriate amounts or types of lipoprotein in the blood

dyslipoproteinemias
plural of dyslipoproteinemia

dysnatraemia
Alternative form of dysnatremia.

dysnatremia
The presence of an unusual (high or low) amount of sodium in the blood; abnormal serum sodium level.

dysploidy
Variation in the chromosome number in a population by less than a whole set of chromosomes, typically because of chromosomal rearrangements.

dysprosium
A metallic chemical element (symbol Dy) with atomic number 66: a rare earth element with a metallic silver lustre. Applications in human affairs include magnets with high performance, which are important in various machines with electric motors.

dysproteinaemia
Alternative form of dysproteinemia.

dysproteinaemias
plural of dysproteinaemia

dysproteinemia
The presence of abnormal types or amount of protein in the blood.

dysproteinemias
plural of dysproteinemia

echeme
A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables).

echemes
plural of echeme

ecklein
An old measure of capacity.

eckleins
plural of ecklein

ecotown
Any of a number of government-sponsored new towns which are intended to achieve exemplary standards of sustainability

ecotowns
plural of ecotown

ecovalence
A measure of the interaction of a genotype and its environment

ecovalences
plural of ecovalence

ectrosyndactyly
Syndactyly associated with a diminished number of digits.

edaphons
plural of edaphon

edition
A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.
The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.
An instance of the first or second sense.
A particular instance of an event.

editions
plural of edition

edubabble
Alternative spelling of edu-babble.

effectivities
plural of effectivity

effectivity
The ability or power to be effective.
A measure of the effectiveness of something.
[Technical documentation] An indication of the product, procedure, or timescale for which an item of information is applicable or effective.

effusivities
plural of effusivity