9-letter words containing m, e, a, n, d
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- daemonian — demonian.
- daemonize — Demonize.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damn near — People use damn near to emphasize that what they are saying is not actually true, but is very close to being true.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- damnified — Simple past tense and past participle of damnify.
- 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.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dangerman — (sports, British) A player on an opposing side who poses a significant threat.
- 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)
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- deaminase — an enzyme that breaks down and takes out the amino group from amino compounds
- deaminate — to remove one or more amino groups from (a molecule)
- deaminize — deaminate
- deathsman — an executioner
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- demandant — (formerly) the plaintiff in an action relating to real property
- demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demarking — demarcate.
- demeaning — Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- demeanure — Obsolete form of demeanor.
- dementate — deprived of one's sanity; mad
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demeraran — originating from or native to Demerara
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- 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).
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentalman — an enlisted person working as a dental assistant.
- desdemona — (in Shakespeare's Othello) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago.
- diademing — Present participle of diadem.
- diamagnet — a substance exhibiting diamagnetism
- diamonded — Simple past tense and past participle of diamond.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.