dewarra
cowrie shells formerly used as currency in parts of Papua New Guinea

dezh
The IPA digraph "dʒ", or the obsolete ligature "ʤ".

dezhes
plural of dezh

dhaal
The letter ذ in the Arabic script.

dhaals
plural of dhaal

dharani
A Buddhist chant or incantation.

dharanis
plural of dharani

dharmachakra
The wheel of dharma (natural law; cosmic order), a motif in dharmic religions.

dharmachakras
plural of dharmachakra

dhrupad
A vocal genre in Hindustani classical music

diabologue
A book of sayings and quotations attributed to Satan.

diabologues
plural of diabologue

diachronies
plural of diachrony

diachrony
The study of change over time, especially changes to language.

diadumenoi
plural of diadumenos

diadumenos
A form of Ancient Greek sculpture featuring a young man holding a knotted diadem (as the winner of a contest).

diaglyph
Glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem.

diaglyphs
plural of diaglyph

dialect
A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

dialecting
The creation of domain-specific languages within an existing programming language.

dialectization
Transformation into dialect.

dialects
plural of dialect

dialytika
A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet

diameter
Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle; a chord that passes through the center of the circle.
The length of such a line.
The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space.
The maximum eccentricity over all vertices in a graph.

diameters
plural of diameter

diametre
Alternative form of diameter.

diametres
plural of diametre

diamonte
A diamante poem.

diamontes
plural of diamonte

diaphonies
plural of diaphony

diaphony
A form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves.

diapositive
An image suitable to overlay (superimpose) over another (as for example a gel for an overhead projector, a slide that complements another slide as a superimposition for it, or a digital virtual equivalent of these); its coloration is adjusted to contrast with the underlying image (for example, text may be white instead of black in areas where the background is dark).

diapositives
plural of diapositive

diaspidid
Any of the armoured scale insects of the family Diaspididae.

diaspidids
plural of diaspidid

diastereoisomer
A stereoisomer having multiple chiral centres; a diastereoisomer cannot normally be superimposed on the mirror image of another.

diastereoisomers
plural of diastereoisomer

diastereomer
Alternative form of diastereoisomer.

diastereomers
plural of diastereomer

dickpic
A photograph of a penis, taken for sexual purposes.

dickpics
plural of dickpic

dicktionaries
plural of dicktionary

dicktionary
A dictionary.

dickture
A photograph of a penis.

dicktures
plural of dickture

dicolon
A verse or period consisting of two cola or members.

dicolons
plural of dicolon

dicta
plural of dictum

dictum
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
An arbitrament or award.

dictums
Alternative form of dicta, plural of dictum

didrachm
Alternative form of didrachma.

didrachma
An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.

didrachmas
plural of didrachma

didrachms
plural of didrachm

diffogram
A diagram that uses diagonal lines to display the results of multiple pairwise difference of means tests.

diffograms
plural of diffogram

diffractogram
An image produced by a diffractometer

diffractograms
plural of diffractogram

digirth
The girth of a digraph.

digirths
plural of digirth

digizine
A magazine published in an electronic format; an e-zine.

digizines
plural of digizine

digram
A digraph (combination of two letters)
A digraph
digraph (Taixuanjing symbol with two lines)

digrams
plural of digram

digraphia
The concurrent use of two scripts for the same spoken language.

dimeter
A line in a poem having two metrical feet.
A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.

dimeters
plural of dimeter

dinar
The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.
An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight.

dinars
plural of dinar

dinheiro
A coin used from the 12th to the 15th century in Portugal.

dinheiros
plural of dinheiro

diobol
An ancient coin worth two obols.

diobolon
A Greek copper coin of the mid-19th century.

diobols
plural of diobol

diram
A Tajikistani coin; 100 dirams equal one somoni.

dirams
plural of diram

disastrophe
A disastrous catastrophe.

disastrophes
plural of disastrophe

discogram
The diagnostic image produced by discography.

discograms
plural of discogram

discographies
plural of discography

discography
Complete collection of the releases of a musical act.
List of all of the releases of a certain musical act, usually with release dates, and often with other information about the releases.
Radiography of the spine after injection of a contrast medium into a disc.

disharmonies
plural of disharmony

disharmoniousness
Lack of harmony.

disharmony
The absence of harmony or concordance.

diskogram
Alternative form of discogram.

diskograms
plural of diskogram

diskographies
plural of diskography

diskography
Alternative form of discography.

dislexification
The linguistic pattern whereby a given language must encode separate meanings using separate words, as opposed to colexifying them with a single polysemous word.

dissertationese
Stilted language typical of a dissertation.

dissimogram
A graphical representation of the dissimilarity between two groups

dissimograms
plural of dissimogram

distelfink
A stylized goldfinch in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, representing happiness and good fortune.

distogram
A histogram of distances between pairs of pixels in an image

distograms
plural of distogram

distropha
A neume that doubles the value of the first note in a series.

distrophae
plural of distropha

diubiquitin
A dimer of ubiquitin; the motif responsible for its biosynthesis

diubiquitins
plural of diubiquitin

divertimenti
plural of divertimento

divertimento
composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.

divertimentos
plural of divertimento

divinement
divination

divinements
plural of divinement

dixel
The time-activity curve associated with a single pixel in a medical image.

dixels
plural of dixel

dizain
decastich

dizains
plural of dizain

dje
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ђ / ђ.

djes
plural of dje

dle
A short, daily web-based guessing game or puzzle, especially one of many played one after another.

doab
A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganges and the Yamuna

doabs
plural of doab

doblon
Obsolete form of doubloon.

doblones
plural of doblon

doblons
plural of doblon

doccie
A documentary.

doccies
plural of doccie