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9-letter words containing d, t, m

  • betamaxed — (jargon)   When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS.
  • betumbled — thrown into disorder
  • bimotored — having two engines.
  • bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
  • bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
  • camerated — vaulted
  • cetrimide — a quaternary ammonium compound used as a detergent and, having powerful antiseptic properties, for sterilizing surgical instruments, cleaning wounds, etc
  • chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
  • cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
  • comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
  • combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
  • combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
  • comforted — to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.
  • commented — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
  • committed — having a strong commitment to an ideology, religion, etc
  • commodate — (Scotland, legal) A gratuitous loan.
  • commodity — A commodity is something that is sold for money.
  • compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
  • completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • comported — Simple past tense and past participle of comport.
  • composted — Simple past tense and past participle of compost.
  • condiment — A condiment is a substance such as salt, pepper, or mustard that you add to food when you eat it in order to improve the flavour.
  • contemned — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
  • cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
  • ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
  • cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
  • 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.
  • dalmatian — A Dalmatian is a large dog with short, smooth, white hair and black or dark brown spots.
  • dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
  • daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
  • damnation — According to some religions, if someone suffers damnation, they have to stay in hell for ever after they have died because of their sins.
  • damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
  • damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
  • damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
  • dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
  • darmstadt — an industrial city in central Germany, in Hesse: former capital of the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt (1567–1945). Pop: 139 698 (2003 est)
  • dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
  • dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
  • data mart — (database)   A type of data warehouse designed primarily to address a specific function or department's needs, as opposed to a data warehouse which is traditionally meant to address the needs of the organisation from an enterprise perspective. In addition, a data mart often uses aggregation or summarisation of the data to enhance query performance. However, it is important to maintain the ability to access the underlying base data to enable drill-down analysis as necessary.
  • datacomms — the transmission of data along communications systems
  • date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
  • date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
  • datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
  • dead meat — If you say that someone is dead meat, you mean that they are in very serious trouble that may result in them being hurt or injured in some way.
  • dead time — the interval of time immediately following a stimulus, during which an electrical device, component, etc, is insensitive to a further stimulus
  • dead-melt — to melt (steel) until killed.
  • deaf-mute — A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence.
  • deamidate — (organic chemistry) To remove an amide functional group from a compound.
  • deaminate — to remove one or more amino groups from (a molecule)
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