A member of an allied commando unit operating behind enemy lines in northern Burma during World War II.
chitted
chitted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chit
chytrid
chytrid
noun
(pathology) Abbreviation of chytridiomycosis.
Any fungus of the phylum Chytridiomycota.
dichter
diptych
diptych
noun
(Christianity) A catalogue of saints.
(Christianity) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church.
(art) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
(historical, Ancient Rome) Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence (transferred sense) a list of magistrates.
(transferred sense) Any work made up of two parts treating complementary or contrasting aspects of one general topic.
A literary work consisting of two contrasting parts, such as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view.
A novel published in two volumes forming one continuous story (as opposed to a duology or dilogy).
A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
distich
distich
adj
Distichous.
noun
(prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
Any couplet.
ditched
ditched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ditch
ditcher
ditcher
noun
In the game of bowls, a bowl that rolls off the green into the outer ditch.
One who digs ditches.
One who ditches, or abandons.
ditches
ditches
noun
plural of ditch
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ditch
dotchin
dotchin
noun
(India, obsolete) A steelyard or balance.
dowitch
fitched
fitched
adj
(heraldry) Alternative form of fitchy
hitched
hitched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hitch
hydatic
hydatic
adj
Relating to a hydatid
inditch
inditch
verb
(transitive) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.
lichted
outchid
pitched
pitched
adj
(not comparable) Covered in pitch.
(not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.
(of a battle, fight, etc) Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.