9-letter words containing m, i, s, r
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- cretinism — a condition arising from a deficiency of thyroid hormone, present from birth, characterized by dwarfism and learning difficulties
- crimeless — free from crime; innocent
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- criminous — criminal
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- 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
- 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.
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- 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.
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demisters — Plural form of demister.
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- dermestid — any beetle of the family Dermestidae, whose members are destructive at both larval and adult stages to a wide range of stored organic materials such as wool, fur, feathers, and meat. They include the bacon (or larder), cabinet, carpet, leather, and museum beetles
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- 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
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dimerises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dimerise.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- dirigisme — Any economy in which the government exerts a strong directive influence, often with substantial, but not all, of the characteristics of a centrally planned economy.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disarming — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disimmure — to release from confinement
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dismember — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- domineers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of domineer.
- dosimeter — a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.