9-letter words containing a, m, y
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- laymanize — to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people
- leiomyoma — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- lymphomas — Plural form of lymphoma.
- lysosomal — Of, pertaining to, or originating in lysosomes.
- m-payment — a point-of-sale payment made through a wireless device such as a mobile phone or PDA
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
- mad money — a small sum of money carried or kept in reserve for minor expenses, emergencies, or impulse purchases.
- magic eye — a miniature cathode-ray tube in some radio receivers, on the screen of which a pattern is displayed in order to assist tuning
- magically — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magsaysay — Ramón [rah-mohn;; Spanish rah-mawn] /rɑˈmoʊn;; Spanish rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1907–57, Philippine statesman: president 1953–57.
- maha yoga — a form of yoga incorporating elements of the other major forms
- maha yuga — a period of 12,000 years, comprising four Yugas.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.
- mainstays — Plural form of mainstay.
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- make away — to depart in haste
- make eyes — to ogle amorously
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- makeyevka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of the Sea of Azov.
- malayalam — a Dravidian language spoken in extreme southwestern India.
- malaysian — a native or inhabitant of Malaysia.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- malignity — the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malleably — In a malleable manner; flexibly.
- mamillary — Of, relating to, or on the mamilla.
- mammality — the characteristic of being a mammal
- mammalogy — the science dealing with mammals.
- mammology — Alternative form of mammalogy.
- manawydan — a brother of Bran, Efnisien, and Branwen, and the second husband of Rhiannon: he rescued Pryderi from enchantments cast upon him by Llwyd.
- mandatary — a person or nation holding a mandate.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandylion — a loose garment formerly worn over armour
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- manically — In a manic manner.
- manlikely — in a manlike manner