All English words - page 1106

Of or typical of a ruler with total power.

Dictatorial behaviour or action; the adoption of a dictatorial approach.

As or by a dictator (= a leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the people)

A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

Government by a dictator.

Dictatorial.

A female dictator; a woman who dictates.

A female dictator; = dictatress .

Dictatorship.

The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

The compiler of a dictionary; a lexicographer.

A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.

A form of telephone by means of which speech can be picked up by a sensitive microphone and reproduced by a loudspeaker in another location in the same building.

A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source.

A type of stele found in certain vascular plants (especially ferns) which is broken up into a network of meristeles separated by parenchymatous areas usually associated with leaf-gaps.

Originally: †any of various carboniferous seed ferns of the former genus dictyoxylon, occurring in the european coal measures as fossil stems having longitudinally-oriented bands of fibres in the outer cortex, often forming an interconnecting network of strands (obsolete). in later use: (attributive) designating this type of cortical structure.

Of the base of a crinoid's stem: consisting of two rings of plates. of a crinoid: characterized by such a base.

Any microscopic worm of the rhombozoan group dicyemida, having a complicated life cycle with two kinds of larvae.

A fossil herbivorous mammal-like reptile of the late permian and triassic periods, with beaked jaws and no teeth apart from two tusks in the upper jaw of the male.

With capital initial. usually with the. an instructional christian treatise of the early 2nd cent.

The writer or compiler of the didache.

A didactic person; specifically a teacher or instructor, especially considered as patronizing or tediously pedantic.

Didactic.

In a way that is intended to teach, especially in a way that is fixed and unwilling to change

The quality of being didactic; = "didacticism".