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13-letter words containing m, d, a, y

  • herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
  • hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
  • hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • hydrated lime — a soft, white, crystalline, very slightly water-soluble powder, Ca(OH) 2 , obtained by the action of water on lime: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements.
  • hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
  • hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
  • hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
  • hypolipidemia — (medicine) A lower than normal concentration of lipids in the blood.
  • idiomatically — peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.
  • indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
  • indian mutiny — a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.
  • intradermally — within the dermis.
  • judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
  • judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
  • 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
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
  • madame bovary — a novel (1857) by Gustave Flaubert.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • made of money — very rich
  • madhya bharat — a former state of central India; now included in Madhya Pradesh.
  • magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
  • maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
  • make sb's day — If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
  • maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
  • malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
  • mammary gland — any of the compound accessory reproductive organs of female mammals that occur in pairs on the chest or ventral surface and contain milk-producing lobes with ducts that empty into an external nipple, becoming functional when young are born and secreting milk for the duration of suckling.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
  • mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
  • matagorda bay — a bay in SE Texas, at the mouth of the Colorado River, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Matagorda Peninsula. About 50 miles (80 km) long.
  • meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
  • mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
  • medullary ray — (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
  • mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • merry dancers — the aurora borealis
  • midday prayer — the fourth of the seven canonical hours; sext
  • midsummer day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
  • military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
  • milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
  • mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
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