11-letter words containing a, m, y, l
- medicinally — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- medley race — a relay race in which each contestant must cover a different distance
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- melodically — melodious.
- meltability — The state or quality of being meltable.
- 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.
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- mercenarily — In a mercenary way, for selfish reason of profit or gain.
- mercurially — In a mercurial manner.
- mesenchymal — Of or pertaining to the mesenchyme.
- metaldehyde — a chemical, (CH3CHO)4, that is a polymer of acetaldehyde, used to kill slugs and snails and also as a fuel for portable stoves
- metallogeny — the study of the formation of mineral deposits
- metanalysis — a shift in the division between words in a phrase; misdivision: “A nickname” resulted from metanalysis of “an ekename.”.
- methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
- methylamine — any of three derivatives of ammonia in which one or all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by methyl groups, especially a gas, CH 5 N, with an ammonialike odor, the simplest alkyl derivative of ammonia and, like the latter, forming a series of salts.
- methylating — Present participle of methylate.
- methylation — the process of replacing a hydrogen atom with a methyl group.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- miasmically — in a miasmic manner
- mill valley — a town in W California, NW of San Francisco.
- mimetically — In a mimetic manner.
- mint family — the large plant family Labiatae (or Lamiaceae), characterized by aromatic herbaceous plants having square stems, simple leaves, clusters of two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of small nutlets, and including basil, bee balm, catnip, coleus, lavender, marjoram, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, sage, spearmint, and thyme.
- mirifically — in a mirific manner
- misanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- misanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of misanalyze.
- misapplying — Present participle of misapply.
- misclassify — To classify incorrectly.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- 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.
- mixed layer — the surface layer of water, seasonally varying in thickness, that is at almost uniform temperature owing to agitation by waves and wind.
- 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).