12-letter words containing m, i, r, y, a
- circumrotary — Alternative form of circumrotatory.
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- dramatically — of or relating to the drama.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysrhythmias — Plural form of dysrhythmia.
- elementarily — In an elementary way.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- gay marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.