9-letter words containing a, d, e, m
- besmeared — to smear all over; bedaub.
- betamaxed — (jargon) When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS.
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
- bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- bridemaid — a bridesmaid
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- broodmare — mare for breeding
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- camcorder — A camcorder is a portable video camera which records both pictures and sound.
- camerated — vaulted
- campeador — a champion
- campodean — a campodeid.
- campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- carbamide — urea.
- card game — A card game is a game that is played using a set of playing cards.
- cardamine — bittercress
- cavaedium — atrium (def 1a).
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chaminade — Cécile Louise Stéphanie [sey-seel lweez stey-fa-nee] /seɪˈsil lwiz steɪ faˈni/ (Show IPA), 1857–1944, French pianist and composer.
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- code name — A code name is a name used for someone or something in order to keep their identity secret.
- code-name — to assign a code name to.
- codenamed — Simple past tense and past participle of codename.
- codenames — Plural form of codename.
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- comedians — Plural form of comedian.
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- commanded — to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order: The captain commanded his men to attack.
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- commendam — the temporary holding of an ecclesiastical benefice
- commodate — (Scotland, legal) A gratuitous loan.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.