9-letter words containing o, d, s, m
- desmosome — a structure in the cell membranes of adjacent cells that binds them together
- despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- dialogism — a deduction with one premise and a disjunctive conclusion
- diatomist — a person specializing in the study of diatoms
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- 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.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- discommon — (at Oxford and Cambridge) to prohibit (tradespeople or townspeople who have violated the regulations of the university) from dealing with the undergraduates.
- discotomy — (surgery) alternative spelling of discectomy.
- 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.
- disformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disform.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- dismounts — Plural form of dismount.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- dogmatise — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.
- dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
- dolomites — a very common mineral, calcium magnesium carbonate, CaMg(CO 3) 2 , occurring in crystals and in masses.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- domestics — Plural form of domestic.
- domiciles — Plural form of domicile.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- domineers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of domineer.
- dominions — the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doomsters — Plural form of doomster.
- doorjambs — Plural form of doorjamb.
- dosemeter — Alternative form of dosimeter.
- dosimeter — a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dragomans — Plural form of dragoman.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.