11-letter words containing a, l, o, y, e
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- law society — association of lawyers
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- lay eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- lay to rest — the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
- layer board — lear board.
- legacy code — legacy system
- legationary — Relating to a legation.
- leiomyomata — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
- logodaedaly — the cunning or skilful use of words
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- lollygagged — Simple past tense and past participle of lollygag.
- lollygagger — (slang) A lazy person, one who lollygags; a slacker, ne'er-do-well.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefactory — villainous
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- marmoreally — In a marmoreal fashion; like marble.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- melodically — melodious.
- memory lane — the memory of one's past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory lane.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- metallogeny — the study of the formation of mineral deposits
- methylation — the process of replacing a hydrogen atom with a methyl group.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.