These are the meanings of the letters DCAIMA when you unscramble them.
- Acid (a.)
Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.
- Acid (a.)
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
- Acid (n.)
A sour substance.
- Acid (n.)
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.
- Amia (n.)
A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
- Amid (prep.)
In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
- Amid (prep.)
See Amidst.
- Cadi (n.)
An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.
- caid (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
- Maid (n.)
A female servant.
- Maid (n.)
A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
- Maid (n.)
An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
- Maid (n.)
The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
- Mica (n.)
The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.