9-letter words containing a, l, y, i
- matriliny — the tracing of descent through the mother's line of a family.
- maudlinly — In a maudlin fashion.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- maxillary — of or relating to a jaw, jawbone, or maxilla.
- maximally — of or being a maximum; greatest possible; highest.
- maximumly — In a maximum manner.
- meaningly — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- mediately — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- medically — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- milky way — the spiral galaxy containing our solar system. With the naked eye it is observed as a faint luminous band stretching across the heavens, composed of approximately a trillion stars, most of which are too distant to be seen individually.
- millenary — consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
- mimically — In a mimicking or imitative manner.
- minelayer — a naval ship equipped for placing mines in the water.
- minimally — constituting a minimum: a minimal mode of transportation.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- mislaying — Present participle of mislay.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- moaningly — With a moaning sound.
- mortality — the state or condition of being subject to death; mortal character, nature, or existence.
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- musically — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- mutuality — condition or quality of being mutual; reciprocity; mutual dependence.
- myelinate — Of, related to, or composed of myelin.
- mykolayiv — Nikolayev.
- myoclonia — a disease characterized by myoclonus.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- myxoviral — Relating to myxoviruses.
- naggingly — In a nagging manner.
- naughtily — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- nikolayev — a city in S Ukraine, in the SW on the Bug River.
- nobiliary — of or relating to the nobility.
- nominally — by or as regards name; in name; ostensibly: He was nominally the leader, but others actually ran the organization.
- nonfamily — Not a member of the family.
- normality — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- nyctalgia — night pain that occurs in the sleep.
- nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
- oedipally — in an oedipal manner
- ohmically — By means of ohmic heating, the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor releases heat.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- ontically — In an ontic sense.
- optically — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- ordinally — of or relating to an order, as of animals or plants.