13-letter words containing l, y, m
- triple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of trisyllabic feet.
- tummy muscles — the muscles of the stomach
- tympanoplasty — reconstruction of the eardrum and the bones of the middle ear.
- tyndallimetry — the determination of the concentration of suspended material in a liquid by measuring the amount of light scattered
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- unambitiously — in an unambitious manner
- unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncommendably — in an uncommendable manner
- unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- underemployed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unemotionally — without the expression of strong feeling
- unfamiliarity — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- ungentlemanly — not courteous or chivalrous
- unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unmaliciously — not in a malicious manner
- unmurmuringly — without a murmur or complaint
- unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
- unreclaimably — in an unreclaimable manner
- unremittently — in an unremittent or persistent manner
- unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- untremblingly — not tremblingly; in an untrembling manner; without trembling
- upon my soul! — an exclamation of surprise
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
- violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
- woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
- woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
- yellow enzyme — any of several yellow respiratory enzymes that are members of the flavoprotein group, found naturally as in yeast
- yellow mombin — a tropical American tree, Spondias mombin, having yellowish-white flowers and yellow, oval, edible fruit.
- yellowhammers — Plural form of yellowhammer.
- yol computers — (company) A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.
- yttrium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth elements, of which the cerium and terbium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- zymotechnical — relating to the technology of fermentation