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9-letter words containing y, a, m, o

  • baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
  • barometry — the process of measuring atmospheric pressure.
  • barrymore — a US family of actors, esp Ethel (1879–1959), John (1882–1942), Lionel (1878–1954), and Drew (born 1975)
  • belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
  • bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
  • body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
  • body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
  • body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
  • boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
  • boom baby — a person born in the years of the baby boom
  • byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
  • ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
  • cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
  • chirimoya — cherimoya.
  • chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
  • chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
  • chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
  • cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
  • claymores — Plural form of claymore.
  • climatory — Having to do with climate.
  • cockamamy — ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
  • columbary — a dovecote
  • comayagua — a city in W central Honduras.
  • come away — to become detached
  • comically — producing laughter; amusing; funny: a comical fellow.
  • compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
  • compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
  • company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
  • comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
  • comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
  • condyloma — a skin tumour near the anus or genital organs, esp as a result of syphilis
  • contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
  • contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
  • copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
  • crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
  • cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
  • customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
  • cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
  • cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
  • cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
  • cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
  • cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
  • cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
  • damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
  • democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
  • democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
  • democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
  • demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
  • dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
  • diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
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