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.