Index of English words, starting with "di"

(1) - Diorite (n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

(1) - Dioritic (a.) Containing diorite.

(1) - Dioxide (n.) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.
(2) - Dioxide (n.) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.

(1) - Dip (v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
(2) - Dip (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
(3) - Dip (v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
(4) - Dip (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
(5) - Dip (v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
(6) - Dip (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
(7) - Dip (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
(8) - Dip (v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
(9) - Dip (n.) A dipped candle.
(10) - Dip (v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
(11) - Dip (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
(12) - Dip (v. i.) To dip snuff.
(13) - Dip (n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
(14) - Dip (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
(15) - Dip (n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
(16) - Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.