8-letter words containing l, y, a, m
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- may-blob — marsh marigold.
- maya lin — Maya Ying [mah-yuh ying] /ˈmɑ yə ˈyɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1959, U.S. architect and sculptor.
- mayapple — American plant
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- medially — situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- medianly — In a median direction.
- mel kaye — (person) The hero of The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer. The preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959) contain the following attribution from Clay S. Boswell, Jr. (apparently ACT 1's designer): I wish to acknowledge my appreciation to the many people who offered suggestions and criticisms of the ACT 1 System. In particular, Mel Kaye of Royal McBee who did the bulk of the programming. (2008-08-04)
- menially — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- mentally — in or with the mind or intellect; intellectually.
- mersalyl — a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
- mesnalty — the estate of a mesne lord.
- mesylate — (organic chemistry) methanesulfonate.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- methylal — a colorless, flammable, volatile liquid, C 3 H 8 O 2 , having a chloroformlike odor, used chiefly as a solvent, in perfumery, and in organic synthesis.
- military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- milliary — of, relating to, or designating the ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- modality — the quality or state of being modal.
- molality — the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent.
- molarity — the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.
- morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
- mortally — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- moveably — in a movable manner
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- multiday — lasting for more than one day
- mutually — possessed, experienced, performed, etc., by each of two or more with respect to the other; reciprocal: to have mutual respect.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- mycelial — Of or pertaining to the mycelium.
- myelomas — Plural form of myeloma.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- mysql ab — (company) The Swedish company that developes, distributes and supports the MySQL open source rdbms. MySQL AB is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, themselves acquired by Oracle Corporation on 2009-04-20.
- mystical — mystic; of or relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc.: a strange, mystical experience.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- normally — in a normal or regular way: The wound is healing normally.
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palm bay — a town in E Florida.
- platysma — a broad, thin muscle on each side of the neck, extending from the upper part of the shoulder to the corner of the mouth, the action of which wrinkles the skin of the neck and depresses the corner of the mouth.