9-letter words containing y, a, m
- 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.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- 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
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- 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.
- dairymaid — (esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- damningly — in a damning manner
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- deary me! — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- decimally — by tens
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- 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.
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- dipyramid — bipyramid.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- domically — in the manner or shape of a dome
- dominancy — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.