9-letter words containing a, d, i, m
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- dismasted — Simple past tense and past participle of dismast.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- dismissal — an act or instance of dismissing.
- dismutase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- dogmatise — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.
- dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- dogmatize — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- domically — in the manner or shape of a dome
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dominancy — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominated — to rule over; govern; control.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- dominator — to rule over; govern; control.
- dominical — of or relating to Jesus Christ as Lord.
- dominican — of or relating to the Dominican Republic.
- domitable — Able to be tamed or bent to one's will; tamable, subduable.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- dramamine — dimenhydrinate
- dramatics — (used with a singular or plural verb) the art of producing or acting dramas.
- dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dramatist — a writer of dramas or dramatic poetry; playwright.
- dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamtime — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- duralumin — an alloy of aluminum that is 4 percent copper and contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, iron, and silicon: used for applications requiring lightness and strength, as in airplane construction.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- dynamical — Dynamic.
- dynamited — Simple past tense and past participle of dynamite.
- dynamiter — A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
- dynamites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dynamite.
- dynamitic — relating to dynamite or those who use dynamite for illegal reasons
- dysmetria — the inability to conform muscular action to desired movements because of faulty judgment of distance.
- dysmnesia — an impairment of memory.
- dysphemia — any impairment in the ability to speak.
- dysthymia — depression; despondency or a tendency to be despondent.
- eadmund i — Edmund I.
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.
- emaciated — Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
- emigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of emigrate.