9-letter words containing m, u, c
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- 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.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- 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.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- docudrama — a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- duodecimo — Also called twelvemo. a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. Symbol: 12 mo, 12°.
- dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- ecumenics — the study of the Christian church in its aspect as a worldwide Christian community.
- ecumenism — ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
- ecumenist — ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
- educement — the action of educing
- edumacate — (humorous) deliberate misspelling of educate.
- emaculate — (obsolete) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
- emulgence — the act of draining
- emunction — The act of blowing one's nose.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- encomiums — Plural form of encomium.
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- epicedium — Dirge, lament, elegy.
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- eunuchism — The condition of being a eunuch.
- eurythmic — (music) harmonious.
- excerptum — (from Latin) an excerpt
- excuse me — polite interruption
- factotums — (obsolete) Plural form of factotum.
- fauxmance — a fake romance between two celebrities in order to gain press coverage