9-letter words containing m, i, c, r
- cream ice — ice cream.
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- creamlike — Resembling cream.
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- cretinism — a condition arising from a deficiency of thyroid hormone, present from birth, characterized by dwarfism and learning difficulties
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- crimeless — free from crime; innocent
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- criminous — criminal
- crimplene — Crimplene is an artificial fabric used for making clothes which does not crease easily.
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- criterium — a bicycle road race, consisting of numerous laps of a short closed circuit
- criticism — the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- cruciform — A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross.
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curviform — having a curved shape
- cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decemviri — Plural form of decemvir.
- 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.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- 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
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- 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.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dichromic — of or involving only two colours; dichromatic
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- didrachma — An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.