9-letter words containing m, r, a, d
- diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- 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.
- digambara — the earlier of the two principal Jain sects, whose members went naked.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dipyramid — bipyramid.
- dirt farm — a tract of land on which a dirt farmer works.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
- disarming — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- 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.
- disk farm — (jargon) (Or "laundromat") A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (especially washing machines).
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- docudrama — a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.
- doggerman — a sailor on a dogger
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- dominator — to rule over; govern; control.
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doorframe — the frame of a doorway, including two jambs and a lintel, or head.
- doorjambs — Plural form of doorjamb.
- doorwoman — the female door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and performs minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- draftsman — draughtsman (def 1).
- draftsmen — (US) Plural form of draftsman.
- dragomans — Plural form of dragoman.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- drama-doc — a film which combines fact and fiction
- dramamine — dimenhydrinate
- dramatics — (used with a singular or plural verb) the art of producing or acting dramas.
- dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dramatist — a writer of dramas or dramatic poetry; playwright.
- dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dramaturg — a specialist in dramaturgy, especially one who acts as a consultant to a theater company, advising them on possible repertory.
- draw game — a game in which a player must keep drawing pieces from the boneyard until a playable one is drawn.
- draw-loom — an early handloom used for producing figured fabrics.
- dreamboat — a highly attractive or desirable person.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamland — a pleasant, lovely land that exists only in dreams or the imagination; the region of reverie.
- dreamless — undisturbed by dreams: a sound and dreamless sleep.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamtime — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- dressmake — to make dresses
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.