11-letter words containing a, l, y, m, p
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- 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.
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lay baptism — baptism administered by a lay-person.
- lymph gland — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphangial — pertaining to the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- mammaplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- manipulably — In a manipulable way.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- maximaphily — the collection or study of picture postcards which depict a picture similar, or identical, to that on the stamp, and which also have a related postmark
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- misapplying — Present participle of misapply.
- multiparity — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiplayer — of or relating to a video game, or a portion of a video game, in which more than one person plays at the same time in a shared game environment: a multiplayer game; multiplayer mode; a multiplayer experience.
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- mycoplasmal — Of or pertaining to mycoplasma.
- mycoplasmas — Plural form of mycoplasma.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- opthamology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
- pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
- palm family — the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly, Palmaceae), characterized by chiefly tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having large compound leaves in featherlike or fanlike fronds, large clusters of small flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the palmettos, ornamental palms, and palms that are the source of carnauba wax, coconuts, dates, raffia, rattan, sago, and various oils.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- paralympian — a competitor in the Paralympics
- paramountly — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- pay a claim — If an insurer pays a claim, it pays money to a policyholder because a loss or risk occurs against which they were insured.
- permanently — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- phenylamine — aniline.
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- pine family — the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genus Cedrus), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- play possum — opossum.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.