9-letter words containing a, n, m, e
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- commendam — the temporary holding of an ecclesiastical benefice
- commensal — (of two different species of plant or animal) living in close association, such that one species benefits without harming the other
- comminate — to anathematize
- commonage — the use of something, esp a pasture, in common with others
- compagnie — company.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companera — (in the southwestern U.S.) a female companion; friend.
- companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- companies — Plural form of company.
- compazine — a tranquilizing drug, C28H32ClN3O8S, used to control serious nausea or vomiting and to reduce anxiety
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- con amore — (to be performed) lovingly
- connemara — a barren coastal region of W Republic of Ireland, in Co Galway: consists of quartzite mountains, peat bogs, and many lakes; noted for its breed of pony originating from the hilly regions
- consumate — Misspelling of consummate.
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- corn meal — meal made from maize
- cornerman — the first baseman
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- cracksmen — Plural form of cracksman.
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- daemonian — demonian.
- daemonize — Demonize.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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