10-letter words containing a, l, y, m
- inimically — adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
- inimitably — incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.
- intimately — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
- ivory palm — the palm bearing the common ivory nut.
- karmically — In a karmic context.
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- kymatology — The study of wave motion.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
- laundryman — a person who works in or operates a laundry.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- lazy sml2c — A lazy version sml2c. Portable, written in SML. Language extensions include first-class continuations, asynchronous signal handling. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://dravido.soar.cs.cmu.edu/usr/nemo/sml2c.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- limacology — the study of slugs
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lord mayor — (chiefly in Britain and the Commonwealth) the mayor of certain cities or the chief municipal officer of certain boroughs.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- lyme grass — type of perennial dune grass
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lymphedema — the accumulation of lymph in soft tissue with accompanying swelling, often of the extremities: sometimes caused by inflammation, obstruction, or removal of lymph channels.
- lymphodema — (pathology) A condition of fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system.
- lymphogram — A diagnostic image produced by lymphography.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- macrocycle — (chemistry) a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule.
- malacology — the science dealing with the study of mollusks.
- malay bear — a small, black bear, Ursus (Helarctos) malayanus, of Southeast Asian forests, having a light muzzle and yellow chest markings.
- malignancy — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- mammillary — of, relating to, or resembling a mammilla.
- manageably — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- maniacally — of or relating to mania or a maniac.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifoldly — In a manifold manner.
- manila bay — a bay in the Philippines, in W Luzon Island: the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet 1898.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).