(zoology) Any fish in the family Cottidae, the sculpins.
cytode
cytode
noun
(biology) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life, differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present
cytoid
cytoid
adj
(physiology) cell-like; applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
dacoit
dacoit
noun
(chiefly India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.
verb
(chiefly India) To commit armed robbery.
decato
decoat
decoat
verb
To remove a coating from
decoct
decoct
verb
(cooking) To make an infusion.
(cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
(figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
(figurative) To reduce or diminish.
To digest in the stomach.
dicots
dicots
noun
plural of dicot
diotic
diotic
adj
Of or relating to both ears.
docent
docent
adj
Instructive; that teaches.
noun
(chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.)
docity
docity
noun
The quality of being teachable.
docket
docket
noun
(Australia) A receipt.
(law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
(law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
An agenda of things to be done.
verb
(transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
(transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
(transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
doctor
doctor
noun
(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
(obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship's cook.
A fish, the friar skate.
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
verb
(intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
(intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.
(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
(transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
(transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
(transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
doctus
doocot
doocot
noun
(Scotland) dovecote
doucet
doucet
noun
(in the plural) Deer testicles.
(obsolete except in dialects) A sweetened dish.
dowcet
ducato
ductor
ductor
noun
(obsolete) One who leads.
(printing) A device, usually in the form of an oscillating roller, for transferring ink from a source to the ink train rollers in a controlled manner.
octads
octads
noun
plural of octad
octavd
octdra
octoad
octoad
noun
Synonym of ogdoad (“a thing made up of eight parts”)
octode
octode
noun
(dated, electronics) A thermionic valve that has eight electrodes or similar elements
octoid
octoid
adj
(engineering) Being a form of gear or tooth that resembles the involute, but whose complete path of contact on the surface of a sphere is in the form of a figure eight.
tomcod
tomcod
noun
A jack (fish).
A kingfish.
A species of edible cod found in the Atlantic, Microgadus tomcod.