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9-letter words containing m, e, d, u

  • demounted — Simple past tense and past participle of demount.
  • demulcent — soothing; mollifying
  • demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
  • demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure
  • demurrers — Plural form of demurrer.
  • demurring — Present participle of demur.
  • denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
  • 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)
  • despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
  • detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
  • 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
  • diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
  • dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
  • discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
  • disimmure — to release from confinement
  • disinhume — to disinter.
  • dismutase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions.
  • displumed — Simple past tense and past participle of displume.
  • diverbium — the spoken part of an ancient Roman drama.
  • documents — Plural form of document.
  • dominique — one of an American breed of chicken, having slate-colored plumage crossed by light and dark bars, raised for its meat and brown eggs.
  • doumergue — Gaston [gas-tawn] /gasˈtɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1863–1937, French statesman: president of France 1924–31.
  • drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
  • drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
  • drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
  • drumettes — Plural form of drumette.
  • drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
  • dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
  • dufferdom — the state of being or the characteristic appearance or behaviour of a duffer (in the sense of a useless and incompetent person)
  • dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
  • dumaguete — a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.
  • dumb ague — an irregular form of intermittent malarial fever, lacking the usual chill.
  • dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
  • dumb-bell — A dumb-bell is a short bar with weights on either side which people use for physical exercise to strengthen their arm and shoulder muscles.
  • dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
  • dumbbells — Plural form of dumbbell.
  • dumminess — the condition of being one who contributes nothing or has no comment to make on proceedings
  • dumpiness — The quality of being dumpy.
  • dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
  • duodecimo — Also called twelvemo. a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. Symbol: 12 mo, 12°.
  • duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
  • durometer — a device for measuring the hardness of materials, especially metals.
  • dust mite — any of various mites, especially Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and D. farinae, that ingest shed skin cells and may cause allergic reactions.
  • dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
  • dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
  • dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
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