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.