9-letter words containing m, i, t, r
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- centurium — A rejected name for fermium.
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- cetrimide — a quaternary ammonium compound used as a detergent and, having powerful antiseptic properties, for sterilizing surgical instruments, cleaning wounds, etc
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chymistry — chemistry.
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comintern — short for Communist International: an international Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and dissolved in 1943; it degenerated under Stalin into an instrument of Soviet politics
- committer — A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
- compotier — a dish for holding compote
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- creamiest — Superlative form of creamy.
- 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
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- 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
- 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.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- 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
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- delimiter — a character or group of characters which mark a limit in computer code
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.
- demisters — Plural form of demister.
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- depriment — Serving to depress.
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- 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
- determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- 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