11-letter words containing a, y, o
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
- man and boy — from childhood
- 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.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- 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.
- massey hope — (language, functional programming) A refinement of Hope+C by Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, with improved syntax.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- mastocytoma — A tumor consisting of mastocytes, commonly found in animals.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- may blossom — the blossom of the may tree or hawthorn
- mayonnaisey — Resembling mayonnaise; mayonnaiselike.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- melodically — melodious.
- 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
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- 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
- metallogeny — the study of the formation of mineral deposits
- methylation — the process of replacing a hydrogen atom with a methyl group.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- micro-party — a small political party, esp one focusing on a single issue
- microarrays — Plural form of microarray.
- micrography — the description or delineation of microscopic objects.
- minor party — a political party with so little electoral strength that its chance of gaining control of the government is slight.