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11-letter words containing d, a, m

  • countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
  • countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
  • crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
  • crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
  • cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
  • cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
  • custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
  • cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
  • dactylogram — a fingerprint
  • dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
  • daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
  • daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
  • damascening — Present participle of damascene.
  • damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
  • dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
  • dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
  • damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
  • damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
  • damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
  • dampishness — the quality of being dampish
  • damselflies — Plural form of damselfly.
  • dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
  • dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
  • dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
  • dark matter — Dark matter is material that is believed to form a large part of the universe, but which has never been seen.
  • data mining — Data mining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits.
  • date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
  • datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
  • day jasmine — a West Indian shrub, Cestrum diurnum, of the nightshade family, having clusters of white flowers that are very fragrant by day.
  • daydreamers — Plural form of daydreamer.
  • daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
  • dde manager — An Oracle product that lets Microsoft Windows applications that support the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol act as front end tools for Oracle. It allows applications like Excel, Word, Ami Professional, WingZ and ToolBook to query, update, graph and report information stored in Oracle.
  • de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
  • dead matter — type that has already been used or is not going to be used
  • dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
  • deaf-mutism — unable to hear and speak.
  • deamidating — Present participle of deamidate.
  • deamidation — (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
  • deamination — to remove the amino group from (a compound).
  • death march — a long-distance forced march, usually undertaken by prisoners, on which a lot of the marchers die
  • death metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extreme speed and lyrics dealing with violence, satanism, etc
  • debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
  • debut album — the first album produced by a particular singer or band
  • decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
  • deccan hemp — kenaf.
  • decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
  • decimalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decimalize.
  • decimalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimalize.
  • decimations — Plural form of decimation.
  • declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
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