9-letter words containing a, m, n, d
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- 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.
- 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
- deathsman — an executioner
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- 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
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- demandant — (formerly) the plaintiff in an action relating to real property
- demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demarking — demarcate.
- demeaning — Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- demeanure — Obsolete form of demeanor.
- dementate — deprived of one's sanity; mad
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demeraran — originating from or native to Demerara
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- denialism — Describes the position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence and seek to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.
- denominal — denominative (def 2).
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentalman — an enlisted person working as a dental assistant.
- desdemona — (in Shakespeare's Othello) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago.
- diademing — Present participle of diadem.
- diamagnet — a substance exhibiting diamagnetism
- diamonded — Simple past tense and past participle of diamond.
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dinomania — a strong interest in or enthusiasm for dinosaurs
- disarming — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- doggerman — a sailor on a dogger