Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
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～ English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
Dryopteris filix-mas
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～ fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms
decoction mashing
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～ (brewing) a process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned
death mask
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～ a cast taken from the face of a dead person
dry masonry
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～ masonry without mortar
drill master
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～ a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline
dance master
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～ a professional teacher of dancing
dancing-master
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～ a professional teacher of dancing
drip mat
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～ a small mat placed under a glass to protect a surface from condensation
dura mater
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～ the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges
dialectical materialism
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～ the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
disassortative mating
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～ mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating
diagonal matrix
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～ a square matrix with all elements not on the main diagonal equal to zero
dot matrix
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～ a rectangular matrix of dots from which written characters can be formed
dark matter
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～ (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force
du Maurier
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～ English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)
du Maurier
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～ English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896)
Daphne du Maurier
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～ English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)
Dame Daphne du Maurier
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～ English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)