9-letter words containing m, s, i, e
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- deamidase — an enzyme that releases the amido group from a compound.
- deaminase — an enzyme that breaks down and takes out the amino group from amino compounds
- 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.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demijohns — Plural form of demijohn.
- demission — relinquishment of or abdication from an office, responsibility, etc
- demisters — Plural form of demister.
- demisting — (in a motor vehicle) the removal of condensation through evaporation produced by a heater or blower
- demitasse — a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonised — to turn into a demon or make demonlike.
- demonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonize.
- demotions — Plural form of demotion.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- demystify — If you demystify something, you make it easier to understand by giving a clear explanation of it.
- denialism — Describes the position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence and seek to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- 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
- desmodium — a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
- despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- die-stamp — to produce words or decoration on (a surface) by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- dimension — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dimerises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dimerise.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- 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.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembody — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disemploy — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disentomb — to remove from the tomb; disinter.
- disesteem — to hold in low regard; think unfavorably of.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.