8-Letter Words Starting: DIAS

• the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time

• the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel

• the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)

• a gap or vacant space between two teeth

• A natural hydrate of aluminium, sometimes forming stalactites.

• A gemstone consisting of hydrate of aluminium in crystal form.

• Seeds and fruit together regarded as a dispersal unit.

• Any one of a group of enzymes which catalyse the breakdown of starch into maltose; mostly amylase

• the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood