9-letter words containing a, d, m, e
- compassed — Simple past tense and past participle of compass.
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- daemonian — demonian.
- daemonize — Demonize.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damn near — People use damn near to emphasize that what they are saying is not actually true, but is very close to being true.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- damnified — Simple past tense and past participle of damnify.
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dangerman — (sports, British) A player on an opposing side who poses a significant threat.
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- 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)
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- dead mail — undeliverable and unreturnable mail that is handled in the dead-letter office of the general post office.
- dead meat — If you say that someone is dead meat, you mean that they are in very serious trouble that may result in them being hurt or injured in some way.
- dead time — the interval of time immediately following a stimulus, during which an electrical device, component, etc, is insensitive to a further stimulus
- dead-melt — to melt (steel) until killed.
- deaf-mute — A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence.
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- 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
- deary me! — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- deathsman — an executioner
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague