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10-letter words containing l, y, o

  • kymatology — The study of wave motion.
  • laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
  • labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
  • lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
  • lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
  • laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
  • lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
  • lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
  • lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
  • lay-people — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • lazy tongs — extensible tongs for grasping objects at a distance, consisting of a series of pairs of crossing pieces, each pair pivoted together in the middle and connected with the next pair at the extremities.
  • lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
  • lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
  • leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
  • leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair
  • leucocytes — Plural form of leucocyte.
  • leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
  • leukocytes — white blood cell.
  • leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
  • leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
  • levogyrate — levorotatory
  • levorotary — Levorotatory.
  • lexicology — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
  • liberatory — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
  • lienectomy — splenectomy.
  • life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
  • limacology — the study of slugs
  • lincomycin — a toxic antibiotic, C 18 H 34 N 2 O 6 S, isolated from Streptomyces lincolnensis, used in its hydrochloride form for the treatment of serious Gram-positive penicillin-resistant infections.
  • lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
  • literosity — the condition of being affectedly literary
  • lithoglyph — an incision or engraving on a gem or stone
  • litholatry — the worship of stones
  • lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
  • lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
  • lithophyte — Zoology. a polyp with a hard or stony structure, as a coral.
  • lithotrity — the operation of crushing stone in the urinary bladder into particles small enough to be voided.
  • little boy — the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.
  • livelyhood — Misspelling of livelihood.
  • lmgtfy.com — (humour, web)   A somewhat sarcastic web service that animates the action of searching on Google. Instead of displaying the search results, the site creates a self-referential URL like that takes you to a page showing an animation of the actions of clicking in the Google search box, entering some text and clicking the submit button. It then takes you to the results on Google. The link is intended be sent to in answer to a question that could easily have been answered by Google. It is a more polite, if long-winded, way of saying JFGI or STFW. In the belief that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, the service helps the recipient to help himself while succinctly conveying the message that he is too stupid to use Google.
  • locomotory — Also, locomotory. of, relating to, or affecting locomotion.
  • loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
  • logicality — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • logography — printing with logotypes.
  • lokayatika — a member of the Lokayata school.
  • lollywater — a sweet soft drink, especially one brightly colored.
  • london eye — London's big wheel
  • lonesomely — In a lonesome manner, in a way missing companionship.
  • long jenny — an in-off up the cushion into a far pocket
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