9-letter words containing n, c, m
- criminous — criminal
- crimplene — Crimplene is an artificial fabric used for making clothes which does not crease easily.
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- 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.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cymbeline — a romantic drama (1610?) by Shakespeare.
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- cynicisms — Plural form of cynicism.
- cynomolgi — plural form of singular cynomolgus: type of monkey
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decrement — the act of decreasing; diminution
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- delmonico — club steak.
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- demonymic — Having characteristics of a demonym.
- demoscene — a computer art subculture whose members produce non-interactive multimedia presentations in order to compete artistically
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- discommon — (at Oxford and Cambridge) to prohibit (tradespeople or townspeople who have violated the regulations of the university) from dealing with the undergraduates.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dominancy — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dominical — of or relating to Jesus Christ as Lord.
- dominican — of or relating to the Dominican Republic.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- 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.
- dynamical — Dynamic.