9-letter words containing am
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- damn fool — Damn fool means 'very stupid'.
- damn near — People use damn near to emphasize that what they are saying is not actually true, but is very close to being true.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damnation — According to some religions, if someone suffers damnation, they have to stay in hell for ever after they have died because of their sins.
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- damnified — Simple past tense and past participle of damnify.
- damningly — in a damning manner
- 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.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampproof — resistant to dampness or the effects of dampness.
- 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.
- 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.
- ddr-sdram — Double Data Rate Random Access Memory
- deamidase — an enzyme that releases the amido group from a compound.
- deamidate — (organic chemistry) To remove an amide functional group from a compound.
- deaminase — an enzyme that breaks down and takes out the amino group from amino compounds
- deaminate — to remove one or more amino groups from (a molecule)
- deaminize — deaminate
- decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- 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
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- dekagrams — Plural form of dekagram.
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- delamater — Cornelius Henry, 1821–89, U.S. mechanical engineer and shipbuilder.
- deprogram — to cause to abandon a rigid commitment to certain beliefs, values, etc., as those of a religious cult, by undoing the effects of indoctrination
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- diagramed — Simple past tense and past participle of diagram.
- diamagnet — a substance exhibiting diamagnetism
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diametral — located on or forming a diameter
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- diamonded — Simple past tense and past participle of diamond.
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- die-stamp — to produce words or decoration on (a surface) by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- digambara — the earlier of the two principal Jain sects, whose members went naked.
- dipyramid — bipyramid.