11-letter words containing a, r, m, o, y
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- lachrymator — a chemical substance that causes the shedding of tears, as tear gas.
- lacrimatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
- lady's room — ladies' room
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- laryngotomy — incision of the larynx.
- lognormally — in the manner of having a having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- macrocyclic — having a ring structure consisting of more than 12 atoms.
- macrodactyl — one of the group of wading birds, Macrodactyli
- macrography — examination or study of an object with the naked eye (opposed to micrography).
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrophytic — Relating to macrophytes.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- main memory — program-addressable storage that is directly controlled by and generally contained in the CPU: except for cache storage, the fastest type of storage available to any computer system.
- major party — a political party with enough electoral strength to periodically gain control of the government or to effectively oppose the party in power.
- maladroitly — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malariology — the study of malaria.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefactory — villainous
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manufactory — a factory.
- marc antony — Antony, Mark.
- marionberry — a cross between a loganberry and a blackberry
- mark antony — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- 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.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory card — a very small, portable electronic device for flash-memory data storage, as in a digital camera, cell phone, or digital media player.
- memory foam — a polyurethane-containing material that adapts to the contours of the body, making it useful in supportive pillows, mattresses, soles and so on
- 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.
- memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- micro-party — a small political party, esp one focusing on a single issue