11-letter words containing a, y, o
- lay hold of — to seize or grasp
- lay to rest — the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
- layer board — lear board.
- legacy code — legacy system
- legationary — Relating to a legation.
- leiomyomata — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- lipoatrophy — (medicine) The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
- lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- litholapaxy — the procedure of removing bladder stones by crushing them and extracting them through a catheter
- loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- logic array — an arrangement of circuitry on a mass-produced microchip permitting the chip to be easily customized for a specific application.
- lognormally — in the manner of having a having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- logodaedaly — the cunning or skilful use of words
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- lollygagged — Simple past tense and past participle of lollygag.
- lollygagger — (slang) A lazy person, one who lollygags; a slacker, ne'er-do-well.
- longanimity — patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance.
- low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lyssophobia — a pathological fear of going insane.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- 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.
- make hay of — to throw into confusion
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- 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