9-letter words containing m, e, c
- decemvirs — a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- decimally — by tens
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- 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.
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
- decompile — Produce source code from (compiled code).
- decomplex — having or composed of parts that are complex in themselves
- decompose — When things such as dead plants or animals decompose, or when something decomposes them, they change chemically and begin to decay.
- decrement — the act of decreasing; diminution
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- delmonico — club steak.
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demarcate — If you demarcate something, you establish its boundaries or limits.
- 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.
- 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.
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- demonymic — Having characteristics of a demonym.
- demoscene — a computer art subculture whose members produce non-interactive multimedia presentations in order to compete artistically
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
- domestics — Plural form of domestic.
- domiciled — a place of residence; abode; house or home.
- domiciles — Plural form of domicile.
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dotcommer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.