13-letter words containing g, y, m
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
- leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
- magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
- magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
- magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
- malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
- mammary gland — any of the compound accessory reproductive organs of female mammals that occur in pairs on the chest or ventral surface and contain milk-producing lobes with ducts that empty into an external nipple, becoming functional when young are born and secreting milk for the duration of suckling.
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
- martagon lily — Turk's-cap lily.
- martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
- matagorda bay — a bay in SE Texas, at the mouth of the Colorado River, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Matagorda Peninsula. About 50 miles (80 km) long.
- meaninglessly — In a meaningless manner; nonsensically.
- megacaryocyte — Alternative form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
- megalocephaly — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- merrythoughts — Plural form of merrythought.
- mesmerizingly — In a way or to an extent that mesmerizes.
- messenger boy — A messenger boy is a boy who is employed to take messages to people.
- metallography — the study of the structure of metals and alloys by means of microscopy.
- methoxy group — the univalent group CH 3 O−.
- methylglyoxal — pyruvic aldehyde.
- michigan city — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.
- microhomology — (genetics) The presence of the same short sequence of bases in different genes.
- mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- mollycoddling — Present participle of mollycoddle.
- money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- money-changer — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
- money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- moneychangers — Plural form of moneychanger.
- moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
- moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
- moneyspinning — earning money or making a profit
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- monkey engine — a pile-driver
- monogenically — In a monogenic manner.
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.