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9-letter words containing c, m, d, r

  • cordiform — heart-shaped
  • cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
  • core dump — a copy of main memory that is printed, displayed, or recorded on an output medium.
  • cormidium — a collection of polyps in a siphonophore
  • cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
  • creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
  • credendum — an article of faith
  • crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
  • decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
  • decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
  • 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
  • decameter — dekameter
  • decametre — ten metres
  • decemviri — Plural form of decemvir.
  • decemvirs — a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
  • decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
  • decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
  • decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
  • decimetre — one tenth of a metre
  • declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
  • decrement — the act of decreasing; diminution
  • demarcate — If you demarcate something, you establish its boundaries or limits.
  • demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
  • democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
  • democrats — Plural form of democrat.
  • 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.
  • diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
  • dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
  • dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
  • dichromic — of or involving only two colours; dichromatic
  • dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
  • dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
  • didrachma — An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.
  • dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
  • dimorphic — having two forms.
  • disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
  • discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
  • docudrama — a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.
  • doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
  • dotcommer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
  • downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
  • drama-doc — a film which combines fact and fiction
  • dramatics — (used with a singular or plural verb) the art of producing or acting dramas.
  • drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
  • dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
  • dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
  • dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
  • epidermic — Of or pertaining to the epidermis or to the skin or bark.
  • formicide — A substance that kills ants.
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