9-letter words containing a, d, m, i
- amortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- amphipods — Plural form of amphipod.
- amplidyne — an electrodynamic amplifier which uses a small electrical signal to control the position of a large motor
- amplified — Simple past tense and past participle of amplify.
- amplitude — In physics, the amplitude of a sound wave or electrical signal is its strength.
- amygdalic — of almonds.
- amygdalin — a white soluble bitter-tasting crystalline glycoside extracted from bitter almonds and stone fruits such as peaches and apricots. Formula: C6H5CHCNOC12H21O10
- amyloidal — resembling an amyloid; starch-like
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- apodiform — (zoology) Belonging to the order Apodiformes, including swifts and hummingbirds.
- armadillo — An armadillo is a small animal whose body is covered with large bony scales and which rolls itself into a ball when it is attacked. Armadillos are mainly found in South and Central America.
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- avizandum — a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- band mill — a powered machine having two pulleys for a saw band or a file band; band saw.
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bipyramid — a geometrical form consisting of two pyramids with a common polygonal base
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
- bridemaid — a bridesmaid
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- 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
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- caldarium — (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
- carbamide — urea.
- cardamine — bittercress
- caudiform — (zoology) Resembling a tail.
- cavaedium — atrium (def 1a).
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- chaminade — Cécile Louise Stéphanie [sey-seel lweez stey-fa-nee] /seɪˈsil lwiz steɪ faˈni/ (Show IPA), 1857–1944, French pianist and composer.
- chlamydia — Chlamydia is a sexually-transmitted disease.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- comedians — Plural form of comedian.
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN