9-letter words containing d, m, u
- communard — a member of a commune
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- conundrum — A conundrum is a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
- 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
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- credendum — an article of faith
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cuckoldom — the state of being a cuckold
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- deaf-mute — A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- degumming — The removal of gum from a material, especially the removal of sericin from silk or phospholipids etc. from vegetable oils.
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- demagogue — If you say that someone such as a politician is a demagogue you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- demeanure — Obsolete form of demeanor.
- demipique — a military saddle of the18th century, with its peak roughly half the height of the older war-saddle
- 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.
- demogogue — Misspelling of demagogue.
- demounted — Simple past tense and past participle of demount.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure
- demurrers — Plural form of demurrer.
- demurring — Present participle of demur.
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- desmodium — a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deuterium — a stable isotope of hydrogen, occurring in natural hydrogen (156 parts per million) and in heavy water: used as a tracer in chemistry and biology. Symbol: D or 2H; atomic no: 1; atomic wt: 2.014; boiling pt: –249.7°C
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort