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Yes. The word daemon is a Scrabble US word. The word daemon is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (4 found)

DAEMON,MOANED,MODENA,NOMADE,

5-letter words (11 found)

ADMEN,AMEND,ANODE,DEMAN,DEMON,MANED,MENAD,MONAD,MONDE,NAMED,NOMAD,

4-letter words (29 found)

AEON,AMEN,DAME,DAMN,DEAN,DEMO,DOEN,DOME,DONA,DONE,EOAN,MADE,MAND,MANE,MANO,MEAD,MEAN,MEND,MENO,MOAN,MODE,MONA,NAME,NEMA,NODE,NOMA,NOME,ODEA,OMEN,

3-letter words (34 found)

ADO,AME,AND,ANE,DAE,DAM,DAN,DEN,DOE,DOM,DON,EAN,EMO,END,EON,MAD,MAE,MAN,MED,MEN,MNA,MOA,MOD,MOE,MON,NAE,NAM,NED,NOD,NOM,ODA,ODE,OMA,ONE,

2-letter words (21 found)

AD,AE,AM,AN,DA,DE,DO,EA,ED,EM,EN,MA,ME,MO,NA,NE,NO,OD,OE,OM,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 100 words from daemon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of daemon

daemon

Etymology 1

A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.mən/
  • Rhymes: -iːmən
  • Hyphenation: dae‧mon

Noun

daemon (plural daemons or daemones)

  1. An idea depicted as an entity.
  2. (uncommon) Alternative form of demon.
Derived terms
  • daemonology
Related terms
  • agathodaemon
  • cacodaemon/cacodemon; cacodaemonic/cacodemonic; cacodaemoniacal
  • daemonic
  • daimon
  • eudaemon

Etymology 2

From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.

Alternative forms

  • dæmon, daimon, demon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdiːmən/, /ˈdeɪmən/
  • Rhymes: -iːmən, -eɪmən
  • Hyphenation: dae‧mon

Noun

daemon (plural daemons)

  1. (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
Usage notes
  • (Unix): Often a daemon will be a server.
Translations
See also
  • background process

Anagrams

  • Modane, Modena, moaned, modena, nomade

Japanese

Romanization

daemon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ダエモン

Latin

Alternative forms

  • demon (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdae̯.moːn/, [ˈd̪äe̯moːn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.mon/, [ˈd̪ɛːmon]

Noun

daemōn m (genitive daemonis); third declension

  1. a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household
  2. (astrology) the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a demon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • daemonicus

Related terms

  • daemonium
  • cacodemon
  • calodemon

Descendants

  • → Albanian: djemën
  • Aromanian: demun
  • → Catalan: dèmon (learned)
  • → English: daemon, demon
  • Galician: demo
  • → German: Dämon
  • → Old Irish: demon, demun
    • Irish: deamhan
    • Scottish Gaelic: deamhan
  • Italian: demone
  • Portuguese: demo, demónio/demônio
  • Translingual: Felis daemon

References

  • “daemon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • daemon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • daemon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “daemon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “daemon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Source: wiktionary.org