9-letter words containing m, e, a, l
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- de molina — Tirso (ˈtirso). Pen name of Gabriel Téllez. ?1571–1648, Spanish dramatist; author of the first dramatic treatment of the Don Juan legend El Burlador de Sevilla (1630)
- dead mail — undeliverable and unreturnable mail that is handled in the dead-letter office of the general post office.
- dead-melt — to melt (steel) until killed.
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- decimally — by tens
- 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.
- delamater — Cornelius Henry, 1821–89, U.S. mechanical engineer and shipbuilder.
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demiglace — A rich brown sauce used in French cuisine by itself or as a base for other sauces.
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- denialism — Describes the position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence and seek to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.
- denominal — denominative (def 2).
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentalman — an enlisted person working as a dental assistant.
- diametral — located on or forming a diameter
- diltiazem — a white to whitish crystalline powder, C 22 H 26 N 2 O 4 S, used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- diplomaed — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- diplomate — a person who has received a diploma, especially a doctor, engineer, etc., who has been certified as a specialist by a board within the appropriate profession.
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- domitable — Able to be tamed or bent to one's will; tamable, subduable.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- dreamland — a pleasant, lovely land that exists only in dreams or the imagination; the region of reverie.
- dreamless — undisturbed by dreams: a sound and dreamless sleep.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- ealdorman — alderman.
- ealdormen — Plural form of ealdorman.
- early man — early hominids, precursors of the human race in its present form
- east lyme — a town in SE Connecticut.
- eclampsia — a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by albuminuria, hypertension, and convulsions.
- eclamptic — Of or pertaining to eclampsia.
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- elaiosome — an oil-rich body on seeds or fruits that attracts ants, which act as dispersal agents
- elastomer — A natural or synthetic polymer having elastic properties, e.g., rubber.
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- elemental — Primary or basic.
- eliminant — (mathematics) resultant.
- eliminate — Completely remove or get rid of (something).
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.