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Dow Chemical Company

The Dow Chemical Company, also known as Dow Chemical, is an American chemical manufacturer founded by Herbert Henry Dow in Midland, Michigan in 1897, now an operating subsidiary of Dow Inc.

Dow Jones & Company, founded 1882 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser, is the News Corp subsidiary publishing The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, Factiva, and Dow Jones Newswires; it created the DJIA in 1896, distinct from the index now run by S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Dow Jones Best-in-Class Asia Pacific Index

The Dow Jones Best-in-Class Asia Pacific Index, until February 2025 named the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index, tracks the top sustainability performers among Asia-Pacific's largest companies.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, also called the Dow 30 or Dow Industrials, is a price-weighted index of 30 large US blue-chip companies, launched in 1896 and first closing above 50,000 in 2026.

Dow Jones Sustainability Index

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices are sustainability stock indices launched in 1999 by SAM and Dow Jones Indexes; in 2025 they were renamed the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices.

Dow University of Health Sciences

Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, a public health sciences university grown from Dow Medical College (founded 1945, named for Sir Hugh Dow); established as a university by Sindh Act in 2003/2004; HEC 2015 medical rank 3rd in Pakistan.

Dowa District

Dowa District is a district in Malawi's Central Region, farming area north of Lilongwe; 772,569 residents (2018 census), 3,077 sq km, high maize, tobacco, and groundnut potential, Dowa-Dambo irrigation scheme.

Dowager

Dowager: a widow holding title or dower from her late husband, from Old French douagiere; used as queen-dowager, dowager-duchess, and empress dowager, notably Cixi of Qing China.

Dowel

A dowel, also called a dowel rod, is a cylindrical rod of wood or metal inserted into matching holes to align parts or carry shear loads across a joint.

Dowel bar retrofit

Dowel bar retrofit (DBR), also called load transfer restoration, is a concrete pavement rehabilitation technique that installs steel dowel bars across transverse joints to restore load transfer between slabs.

Dowel-laminated timber

Dowel-laminated timber (DLT), also known as Brettstapel or DowelLam, is an all-wood mass timber panel in which hardwood dowels lock softwood boards together without metal fasteners or adhesives.

Dower

Mahr, also known as dower, is an obligatory payment of money or property that a husband must give his wife as part of an Islamic marriage contract.

Dower House

Dower House: name shared by several English listed buildings, chiefly the Grade I James Wyatt house (1796-1816) at Dodington Park, South Gloucestershire, originally a dairy and Roman-style bath house; other Dower Houses in Weybridge, Quatt, Melbourne, and Crawley.

Dowex

Dowex is a brand of ion exchange resins produced by Dow Chemical for water treatment, chemical processing, and catalysis; the line was rebranded under DuPont's Amber series in 2019.

Dowland (Mercurian crater)

Dowland is a 158-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at −53.56°, 180.70° (planetographic +West), in quadrangle H-13, named for English composer John Dowland and IAU-approved in 1979 under Mercury's artist-composer-writer naming theme.

Dowletabat-Deryalyk Gas Pipeline

The Dowletabat-Deryalyk Gas Pipeline (Döwletabat-Derýalyk) carries natural gas in Turkmenistan from the Dowletabat field to the Deryalyk compressor station as part of the Central Asia–Center system.

Dowling-Degos disease

Dowling-Degos disease (DDD, dark dot disease, reticular pigment anomaly of flexures) is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis causing reticulate hyperpigmentation of flexures after puberty, caused by KRT5, POFUT1, POGLUT1, PSENEN, or GLMN mutations.

Down (band)

Down (Down NOLA band) is a New Orleans heavy metal supergroup formed in 1991 with members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, and Eyehategod; debut NOLA (1995) went platinum, followed by Down II, Down III, the Down IV EPs, and Volume V (2026).

Down (Into the Dark)

Down (2019) is the fifth Into the Dark installment, Hulu and Blumhouse's monthly horror anthology. Directed by Daniel Stamm, written by Kent Kubena, it stars Natalie Martinez and Matt Lauria as co-workers trapped in an elevator with a stalker over Valentine's Day weekend.

Down a Dark Hall (film)

Down a Dark Hall, 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Rodrigo Cortés, adapted from Lois Duncan's 1974 gothic YA novel; stars AnnaSophia Robb and Uma Thurman as headmistress Madame Duret at the sinister Blackwood boarding school; mixed reviews (46% Rotten Tomatoes).

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 Touchstone comedy directed by Paul Mazursky, a remake of Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, and Richard Dreyfuss; Disney's first R-rated film.

Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's first book (1933), his first under that pseudonym, recounting poverty as a Paris plongeur and a London tramp; first published by Gollancz, 9 January 1933.

Down by Law (film)

Down by Law is Jim Jarmusch's 1986 black-and-white indie comedy in which Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni escape a New Orleans jail and wander the Louisiana bayous, shot by Robby Müller with a John Lurie score.

Down Cemetery Road

Down Cemetery Road is an Apple TV British mystery thriller (2025) adapted from Mick Herron's 2003 debut novel, starring Emma Thompson as PI Zoë Boehm and Ruth Wilson as Sarah Trafford investigating a girl's disappearance after an Oxford house explosion; renewed for season 2.