Word Meanings - DICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

Related words: (words related to DICE)

• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GAMING
  The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• GAMOGENETIC
  Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• GAMOMORPHISM
  That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
• GAMIC
  Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
• GAMBET
  Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GAMMON
  The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
• GAMBA
  A viola da gamba.
• GAMMADION
  A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
• GAMMER
  An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
• GAMELESS
  Destitute of game.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• GAMBESON
  See GAMBISON
• GAMBISON
  A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. (more info) of German origin: cf. MHG. wambeis, G. wams doublet, fr. OHG. wamba,
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• MISOGAMIST
  A hater of marriage.
• MEGAMPERE
  A million ampères.
• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• AUTOGAMOUS
  Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
• AMALGAM
  A native compound of mercury and silver. (more info) 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things.
• VANTAGE GAME
  The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.
• PHAENOGAMIAN; PHAENOGAMIC
  See PHæNOGAMOUS
• DIGAMMA
  A letter ( Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W. (more info) Gram.)
• HETEROGAMY
  The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
• PHAENOGAMIA
  The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
• HOMOGAMY
  The condition of being homogamous.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.