12-letter words containing l, y, a, m
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- premaritally — in a premarital manner
- premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
- prenominally — before a noun
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- primary wall — the wall of a plant cell that is formed first around the protoplast, composed of cellulose microfibrils aligned at all angles and held together by hydrogen bonds.
- primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- pro-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pyophthalmia — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- quality time — time devoted exclusively to nurturing a cherished person or activity.
- regular army — the permanent army maintained in peace as well as in war; the standing army: one of the major components of the Army of the United States.
- rememberably — in a rememberable or memorable manner
- rheumatology — the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases.
- rhythmically — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- royal family — the immediate family of a reigning monarch.
- ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- semimystical — somewhat mystical; having a mystical quality to a partial degree
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- simplicially — from a simplicial point of view
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- subliminally — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- synaptosomal — pertaining to a synaptosome
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.