dictator
— Noun
– English
~ a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
dictatorial
— Adjective
– English
~ characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"
dictatorial
— Adjective
– English
~ of or characteristic of a dictator; "dictatorial powers"
dictatorial
— Adjective
– English
~ expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
dictatorially
— Adverb
– English
~ in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator; "this manager acts dictatorially toward his colleagues"
dictatorship
— Noun
– English
~ a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
diction
— Noun
– English
~ the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
diction
— Noun
– English
~ the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
desk dictionary
— Noun
– English
~ an abridged dictionary of a size convenient to hold in the hand
dictionary
— Noun
– English
~ a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
dictionary definition
— Noun
– English
~ a definition that reports the standard uses of a word or phrase or symbol
dictostylium
— Noun
– English
~ any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium
dictum
— Noun
– English
~ an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
dictum
— Noun
– English
~ an authoritative declaration
Dictyophera
— Noun
– English
~ closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus
Dictyoptera
— Noun
– English
~ in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera
dictyopteran
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera
dictyosome
— Noun
– English
~ a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
dicumarol
— Noun
– English
~ an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin