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dictée: dictation, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words; dictation, an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
dictée musicale: ear training exercise that consists in transcribing what one hears (melody, harmony, rhythm) in music notation
dicyanure: dicyanide
dicétone: diketone
didacte: didact
didacticiel: courseware (educational software); tutorial in software
didacticien: didactician
didactique: didactic (instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate)
didactique: didactics
didactiquement: didactically
didactyle: didactylous
didascalie: stage direction
didermique: diderm, didermic
didodécaèdre: didodecahedral
didrachme: didrachma
diduction: lateral movement performed by the lower jaw in all herbivores during chewing and, in those who ruminate, during rumination
didyme: didymium
diencéphale: diencephalon
diencéphalique: diencephalic
dieppois: of, from or relating to the town of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France
dieu: a god, male divinity
dieu du ciel: alternative spelling of dieux du ciel
dieudonnesque: of French comedian and political activist Dieudonné
dieux du ciel: ye gods! good heavens!
diffa: feast, banquet (especially for a wedding)
diffamateur: libeller, slanderer, defamer
diffamation: defamation
diffamatoire: defamatory; slanderous
diffamer: to defame; smear; ruin the name of
difficile: difficult; choosy, fussy, picky
difficilement: with difficulty; difficultly
difficultueusement: problematically
difficultueux: peevish, who starts difficulties; problematic (leading to all sorts of difficulties)
difficulté: difficulty
diffluer: to spread diffusely
difforme: misshapen, deformed
difformer: "to deform, to spoil; to deface (coins, money)"
difformité: deformity
diffracter: to diffract
diffractif: diffractive
diffraction: diffraction
diffractométrie: diffractometry
diffus: diffuse
diffuser: to diffuse; to broadcast
diffuseur: diffuser; distributor (newspapers)
diffusibilité: diffusibility
diffusible: diffusible
diffusif: diffusive
diffusion: broadcasting, showing; dissemination, diffusion (of culture, knowledge, etc.); circulation (of a news medium); diffusion
diffusion en continu: streaming
diffusionnisme: diffusionism
diffusionniste: diffusionist
diffusionniste: diffusionist
diffusément: diffusely
difféomorphe: diffeomorphic
difféomorphisme: diffeomorphism
différance: différance
différemment: differently
différence: difference
différenciable: differentiable