11-letter words containing l, a, y, o, r
- malefactory — villainous
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- 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.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- 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.
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molendinary — a mill
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- motorically — motor (def 11).
- mucociliary — Of or pertaining to the action of cilia in transporting mucus.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- nanocrystal — A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.
- narratology — The study of narrative structure.
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- nocturnally — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- non-lyrical — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- non-reality — the state or quality of being real.
- nonculinary — not culinary, not relating to cookery or the kitchen
- nonliterary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- nonmilitary — Not belonging to, characteristic of, or involving the armed forces; civilian.
- nonverbally — In a nonverbal manner.
- normatively — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
- not really? — an exclamation of surprise or polite doubt
- observantly — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- octal forty — (jargon) Jargon for "I'm drawing a blank.", I can't work it out.
- olfactorily — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- oneirically — In an oneiric fashion.
- onyx marble — Mexican onyx.
- operability — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- operatively — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- oracularity — Oracular speech or behaviour.
- oraculously — in an oraculous manner
- oral cavity — inside of the mouth
- orange lily — a bulbous lily, Lilium bulbiferum, of the mountainous regions of southern Europe, having erect, crimson-spotted, orange flowers.
- orbicularly — In an orbicular fashion.
- organically — in an organic manner.
- orientality — the state of being oriental
- originality — the quality or state of being original.
- oscillatory — characterized by or involving oscillation.