9-letter words containing i, m, u
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- criminous — criminal
- criterium — a bicycle road race, consisting of numerous laps of a short closed circuit
- cruciform — A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross.
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cubiculum — an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cult film — a film that a certain group of people admire very much
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curviform — having a curved shape
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- 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.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- 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.
- 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.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- demurring — Present participle of demur.
- 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)
- 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
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dilithium — A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.