9-letter words containing m, a, r, i
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- dairymaid — (esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- demarking — demarcate.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- diagramed — Simple past tense and past participle of diagram.
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diametral — located on or forming a diameter
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- didrachma — An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.
- digambara — the earlier of the two principal Jain sects, whose members went naked.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dipyramid — bipyramid.
- dirt farm — a tract of land on which a dirt farmer works.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disarming — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dominator — to rule over; govern; control.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- dramamine — dimenhydrinate
- dramatics — (used with a singular or plural verb) the art of producing or acting dramas.
- dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dramatist — a writer of dramas or dramatic poetry; playwright.
- dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamtime — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- duralumin — an alloy of aluminum that is 4 percent copper and contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, iron, and silicon: used for applications requiring lightness and strength, as in airplane construction.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- dynamiter — A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
- dysmetria — the inability to conform muscular action to desired movements because of faulty judgment of distance.
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- embarking — Present participle of embark.