13-letter words containing m, i, d, a, y
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- family-minded — devoted to one's family
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- haemodialyses — Plural form of haemodialysis.
- haemodialysis — (medicine) the use of dialysis to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
- 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.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- 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.
- 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.
- maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- 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
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- multimodality — the quality or state of being modal.
- my giddy aunt — an exclamation of surprise
- myocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a myocardiograph.
- myristic acid — an oily, white crystalline compound, C 1 4 H 2 8 O 2 , insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and ether: used in soaps, cosmetics, and in the synthesis of esters for flavors and perfumes.
- nonmyelinated — (of nerve fibres) lacking a myelin sheath
- 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.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.