9-letter words containing a, d, m
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- damn fool — Damn fool means 'very stupid'.
- 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.
- 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.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- 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.
- damningly — in a damning manner
- 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.
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampproof — resistant to dampness or the effects of dampness.
- 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).
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- darmstadt — an industrial city in central Germany, in Hesse: former capital of the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt (1567–1945). Pop: 139 698 (2003 est)
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- data mart — (database) A type of data warehouse designed primarily to address a specific function or department's needs, as opposed to a data warehouse which is traditionally meant to address the needs of the organisation from an enterprise perspective. In addition, a data mart often uses aggregation or summarisation of the data to enhance query performance. However, it is important to maintain the ability to access the underlying base data to enable drill-down analysis as necessary.
- datacomms — the transmission of data along communications systems
- 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.
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- ddr-sdram — Double Data Rate Random Access Memory
- 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.