10-letter words containing a, d, m, i
- comedietta — a short comic stage or musical production
- comitadjis — members of any guerrilla band in the Balkan countries or Macedonia
- commanding — If you are in a commanding position or situation, you are in a strong or powerful position or situation.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- confirmand — a candidate for confirmation
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- dairy farm — a farm which has cows producing milk, rather than for beef
- dairymaids — Plural form of dairymaid.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dalai lama — (until 1959) the chief lama and ruler of Tibet
- dalmatians — Plural form of dalmatian.
- damagingly — In a damaging manner.
- damasus ii — died 1048, pope 1048.
- daminozide — a plant-growth retardant, C 6 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used commercially on apples.
- damnations — Plural form of damnation.
- damoiselle — a damsel
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- damselfish — any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body
- datamation — the processing of data by computers
- daunomycin — an anthracycline drug that is used as a medication in the treatment of some forms of cancer
- deafmutism — unable to hear and speak.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- deaminases — Plural form of deaminase.
- deaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of deaminate.
- deaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deaminate.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- delaminate — to divide or cause to divide into thin layers
- deliminate — To delimit, especially in the computing sense.
- delimitate — delimit.
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- demand bid — a bid to which one's partner is obliged to respond.