13-letter words containing l, y, m
- impassibility — The state or condition of being impassible.
- impeccability — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- imperceptibly — very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road.
- impermanently — In an impermanent manner.
- impermissibly — (chiefly, legal) In a way or to an extent that is not permissible.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
- impertinently — intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil: a brash, impertinent youth.
- imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- implacability — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
- implicatively — In an implicative way.
- impolitically — In a way that is impolitic.
- importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
- impossibility — condition or quality of being impossible.
- impracticably — In an impracticable way.
- impractically — In an impractical manner.
- improbability — the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- incompetently — not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
- incrementally — increasing or adding on, especially in a regular series: small, incremental tax hikes.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informatorily — in an informatory fashion
- inimitability — incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.
- initial rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- intemperately — given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- intradermally — within the dermis.
- irreclaimably — In an irreclaimable manner.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotically — With the same osmotic pressure.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- lady mayoress — the wife of a lord mayor
- lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
- leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
- leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leonine rhyme — the form of internal rhyme used in leonine verse.
- levy en masse — the conscription of the civilian population in large numbers in the face of impending invasion
- limbic system — a ring of interconnected structures in the midline of the brain around the hypothalamus, involved with emotion and memory and with homeostatic regulatory systems.