Index of English words, starting with "di"

(1) - Diestock (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

(1) - Diet (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
(2) - Diet (v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
(3) - Diet (v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
(4) - Diet (v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
(5) - Diet (v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
(6) - Diet (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
(7) - Diet (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

(1) - Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.
(2) - Dietary (a.) Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

(1) - Dieter (n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.