9-letter words containing a, m, r, y
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- clergyman — A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- columbary — a dovecote
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- dairymaid — (esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- deary me! — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dipyramid — bipyramid.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- dry steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water
- dynameter — an instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes
- dynamiter — A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
- dynamotor — an electrical machine having a single magnetic field and two independent armature windings of which one acts as a motor and the other a generator: used to convert direct current from a battery into alternating current
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- dysmetria — the inability to conform muscular action to desired movements because of faulty judgment of distance.
- early man — early hominids, precursors of the human race in its present form
- easy mark — sb easily targeted or victimized
- embracery — the offence of attempting by corrupt means to influence a jury or juror, as by bribery or threats
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- empyreans — Plural form of empyrean.