13-letter words containing m, a, l, o, r, y
- methylpropane — (organic compound) isobutane.
- microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
- microanalysis — Chemistry. the analysis of very small samples of substances.
- microcrystals — Plural form of microcrystal.
- microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- moreno valley — city in S Calif.: pop. 142,000
- morgan le fay — the fairy sister of King Arthur.
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.
- mycobacterial — (medicine) Of or pertaining to mycobacteria.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- nonelementary — relating to a complexity class in computational complexity theory
- normally-open — Normally-open switch contacts are in an open state at rest.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- ornamentality — used or grown for ornament: ornamental plants.
- paranormality — the state of being paranormal
- play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
- polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- 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.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- 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.