DIAPHONY | • diaphony n. (Music) A form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves. • DIAPHONY n. a system of rules for scientific investigation. |
DOWNPLAY | • downplay v. (Transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. • DOWNPLAY v. to understate, underemphasise. |
DRYPOINT | • drypoint n. (Uncountable) A technique of intaglio printmaking similar to engraving in which an image is incised… • drypoint n. (Countable) The needle used in this technique. • drypoint n. (Countable) A print made using this technique. |
DUOPSONY | • duopsony n. An economic condition in which two buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity. • DUOPSONY n. the market condition when there are two buyers only. |
DYSPNOEA | • dyspnoea n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dyspnea. • dyspnœa n. Archaic spelling of dyspnea. • DYSPNOEA n. laboured breathing, also DYSPNEA. |
DYSPNOIC | • dyspnoic adj. Alternative form of dyspneic. • DYSPNOIC adj. of or like dyspnoea, laboured breathing, also DYSPNEAL, DYSPNEIC, DYSPNOEAL, DYSPNOEIC. |
MONOPODY | • monopody n. (Poetry) A measure of a single metrical foot. • MONOPODY n. a measure consisting of a single metrical food. |
PALINODY | • palinody n. Obsolete form of palinode. • PALINODY n. a poem which retracts an earlier poem, also PALINODE. |
PANDOWDY | • pandowdy n. (US) A pudding of spiced, sliced apples (or other fruit), sugar and butter, baked with a crumble topping… • PANDOWDY n. a deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust. |
PAYDOWNS | • paydowns n. Plural of paydown. • PAYDOWN n. the reduction of debt through repayment. |
PHONEYED | • phoneyed v. Simple past tense and past participle of phoney. • PHONEY v. to fake, counterfeit. |
PLAYDOWN | • playdown n. (Sports) Any match that is part of a playoff. • play␣down v. (Idiomatic, transitive) To make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious. • PLAYDOWN n. a playoff. |
POYSONED | • poysoned v. Simple past tense and past participle of poyson. • POYSON v. (obsolete) to poison. |
PYINKADO | • pyinkado n. Burmese ironwood, Xylia xylocarpa. • PYINKADO n. (Burmese) the ironwood tree, also PYENGADU. |
PYRANOID | • pyranoid adj. (Organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or having the structure of a pyranose. • PYRANOID adj. of or like the chemical compound pyran. |
PYRENOID | • pyrenoid n. (Biology) any of several transparent structures found in the chloroplast of certain algae etc.; they… • PYRENOID n. a protein body of certain lower organisms. |
SPONDYLS | • spondyls n. Plural of spondyl. • SPONDYL n. (Greek) a vertebra; a thorny oyster. |
SYPHONED | • syphoned v. Simple past tense and past participle of syphon. • SYPHON v. to draw off through a tube, also SIPHON. |