Nouns in english starting with D

• diaphysis — Noun – English ～ the main (mid) section of a long bone
• diapir — Noun – English ～ a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata
• diapsid — Noun – English ～ reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
• Diapsida — Noun – English ～ used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria
• diarchy — Noun – English ～ a form of government having two joint rulers
• diarist — Noun – English ～ someone who keeps a diary or journal
• diarrhea — Noun – English ～ frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
• diarrhoea — Noun – English ～ frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
• diarthrosis — Noun – English ～ a joint so articulated as to move freely
• diary — Noun – English ～ a personal journal (as a physical object)
• diary — Noun – English ～ a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
• Dias — Noun – English ～ Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
• Diaspididae — Noun – English ～ armored scales
• diaspora — Noun – English ～ the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
• diaspora — Noun – English ～ the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
• Diaspora — Noun – English ～ the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
• diastasis — Noun – English ～ separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
• diastema — Noun – English ～ a gap or vacant space between two teeth
• diastole — Noun – English ～ the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
• diastrophism — Noun – English ～ the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust

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