11-letter words containing a, m, y, l
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- polymyalgia — a chronic inflammatory disease, common among older persons, characterized by recurrent episodes of muscle pain and stiffness, sometimes leading to cardiovascular complications or blindness.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pyramidical — pyramidal.
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- reclaimably — in a reclaimable manner
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- safety film — Photography. a film having a nonflammable base of triacetate cellulose.
- safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
- semasiology — semantics, especially the study of semantic change.
- shamelessly — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- simi valley — a city in SW California.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- smiley face — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
- sock cymbal — high-hat
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- spasmolysis — the relaxation or relief of muscle spasm.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- stomatology — the science dealing with the mouth and its diseases.
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- subassembly — a structural assembly, as of electronic or machine parts, forming part of a larger assembly.
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- summability — the quality of being summable
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- syllabarium — syllabary.
- syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
- symmetalism — the use of two or more metals, such as gold and silver, combined in assigned proportions as a monetary standard.
- symmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.