13-letter words containing l, y, m
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- q-methodology — a statistical methodology used by psychologists to identify alternative world-views, opinions, interpretations, etc, in terms of statistically independent patterns of response recognized by clustering together individuals whose orderings of items, typically attitude statements, are similar
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
- ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- re-employment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- safety helmet — protective hard hat
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- school system — state education
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
- self-assembly — Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
- self-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- sentimentally — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- sexagesimally — into sixtieths
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.