12-letter words containing a, m, y, o, t
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- emotionality — The state or quality of being emotional.
- enemy action — offensive military action by your military enemy
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- erythroderma — An inflammatory skin disease with erythema and scaling that affects nearly the entire cutaneous surface.
- esophagotomy — (surgery) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- gigantomachy — (in Greek mythology) the struggle between the gods and the giants.
- grammatology — the scientific study of systems of writing.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- heterogamety — the condition or state of being heterogametic
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- histiocytoma — A tumour consisting of histiocytes.
- hoary marmot — a large marmot, Marmota caligata, living in mountainous areas of Siberia and northwestern North America and having a heavy, yellow-gray body, short black limbs, and black and white head and shoulders.
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypomyotonia — abnormally diminished muscular tone.