11-letter words containing a, m, y, l, o
- marmoreally — In a marmoreal fashion; like marble.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- martyrology — the branch of knowledge dealing with the lives of martyrs.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- may blossom — the blossom of the may tree or hawthorn
- 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.
- mitotically — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- moholy-nagy — László [las-loh;; Hungarian lahs-loh] /ˈlæs loʊ;; Hungarian ˈlɑs loʊ/ (Show IPA), or Ladislaus [lah-dis-lous] /ˈlɑ dɪsˌlaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1895–1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and photographer, in the U.S. after 1936.
- moldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molendinary — a mill
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monodactyly — having only one digit or claw.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- motorically — motor (def 11).
- moveability — Alternative form of movability.
- mucociliary — Of or pertaining to the action of cilia in transporting mucus.
- mycological — Of or pertaining to mycology.
- mycoplasmal — Of or pertaining to mycoplasma.
- mycoplasmas — Plural form of mycoplasma.
- myelination — the formation of a myelin sheath.
- myeloblasts — Plural form of myeloblast.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- myelomatous — Relating to a myeloma.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- nomadically — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- nonmilitary — Not belonging to, characteristic of, or involving the armed forces; civilian.
- nonmystical — not mystical
- normatively — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- onomatology — onomastics.