9-letter words containing um
- cucumbers — Plural form of cucumber.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- degumming — The removal of gum from a material, especially the removal of sericin from silk or phospholipids etc. from vegetable oils.
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- desmodium — a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deuterium — a stable isotope of hydrogen, occurring in natural hydrogen (156 parts per million) and in heavy water: used as a tracer in chemistry and biology. Symbol: D or 2H; atomic no: 1; atomic wt: 2.014; boiling pt: –249.7°C
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dilithium — A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disinhume — to disinter.
- displumed — Simple past tense and past participle of displume.
- diverbium — the spoken part of an ancient Roman drama.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- doum palm — doom palm.
- doumergue — Gaston [gas-tawn] /gasˈtɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1863–1937, French statesman: president of France 1924–31.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- drum into — instill by repetition
- drum roll — fast continuous drumming
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- drumettes — Plural form of drumette.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dumaguete — a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.
- dumb ague — an irregular form of intermittent malarial fever, lacking the usual chill.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb dora — a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman.