9-letter words containing a, d, i, m
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- daemonian — demonian.
- daemonize — Demonize.
- dairymaid — (esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- dalmatian — A Dalmatian is a large dog with short, smooth, white hair and black or dark brown spots.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damasking — Present participle of damask.
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- damnation — According to some religions, if someone suffers damnation, they have to stay in hell for ever after they have died because of their sins.
- damnified — Simple past tense and past participle of damnify.
- damningly — in a damning manner
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- de molina — Tirso (ˈtirso). Pen name of Gabriel Téllez. ?1571–1648, Spanish dramatist; author of the first dramatic treatment of the Don Juan legend El Burlador de Sevilla (1630)
- dead mail — undeliverable and unreturnable mail that is handled in the dead-letter office of the general post office.
- dead time — the interval of time immediately following a stimulus, during which an electrical device, component, etc, is insensitive to a further stimulus
- deamidase — an enzyme that releases the amido group from a compound.
- deamidate — (organic chemistry) To remove an amide functional group from a compound.
- deaminase — an enzyme that breaks down and takes out the amino group from amino compounds
- deaminate — to remove one or more amino groups from (a molecule)
- deaminize — deaminate
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- decimally — by tens
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demarking — demarcate.
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demeaning — Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demiglace — A rich brown sauce used in French cuisine by itself or as a base for other sauces.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demitasse — a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.