9-letter words containing d, i, m, e
- 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.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- decimally — by tens
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- 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
- declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
- decompile — Produce source code from (compiled code).
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- degerming — to rid of germs.
- degumming — The removal of gum from a material, especially the removal of sericin from silk or phospholipids etc. from vegetable oils.
- delimited — to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate: A ravine delimited the property on the north.
- delimiter — a character or group of characters which mark a limit in computer code
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- delmonico — club steak.
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demarking — demarcate.
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demeaning — Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- dementing — Causing dementia.
- demerging — Present participle of demerge.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demi-plie — a movement done in any of the five positions, in which the dancer bends the knees halfway, keeping the heels securely on the ground.
- demiglace — A rich brown sauce used in French cuisine by itself or as a base for other sauces.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.
- demijohns — Plural form of demijohn.
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demimonde — (esp in the 19th century) those women considered to be outside respectable society, esp on account of sexual promiscuity
- demipique — a military saddle of the18th century, with its peak roughly half the height of the older war-saddle
- demission — relinquishment of or abdication from an office, responsibility, etc
- demisters — Plural form of demister.
- demisting — (in a motor vehicle) the removal of condensation through evaporation produced by a heater or blower
- demitasse — a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- 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.
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- demobbing — Present participle of demob.