9-letter words containing im
- climactic — A climactic moment in a story or a series of events is one in which a very exciting or important event occurs.
- climatise — in Australia, adapt or become accustomed to a new climate or environment
- climatize — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- climbable — to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- collimate — to adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- comp time — Comp time is time off that an employer gives to an employee because the employee has worked overtime. Comp time is short for compensation time.
- con anima — with spirit; animatedly (used as a musical direction).
- condiment — A condiment is a substance such as salt, pepper, or mustard that you add to food when you eat it in order to improve the flavour.
- crimeless — free from crime; innocent
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- criminate — to charge with a crime; accuse
- 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.
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- dead time — the interval of time immediately following a stimulus, during which an electrical device, component, etc, is insensitive to a further stimulus
- decimally — by tens
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- delimited — to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate: A ravine delimited the property on the north.
- delimiter — a character or group of characters which mark a limit in computer code
- demimonde — (esp in the 19th century) those women considered to be outside respectable society, esp on account of sexual promiscuity
- dendrimer — a type of polymer defined by regular branches from a central monomer, which give it a tree-like molecular structure
- depriment — Serving to depress.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- 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.
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- dimerises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dimerise.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimidiate — (of a coat of arms or charge ) adjoin (another) so that only half of each is visible.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- dimitrovo — a city in W Bulgaria, near Sofia.
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- dimwitted — a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- disclaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disclaim.
- disclimax — a stable community that has replaced the normal climax in a given area, owing to disturbance by humans or domestic animals.
- disimmure — to release from confinement
- dissimile — a comparison of two dissimilar objects for the purpose of illustration
- 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.