11-letter words containing m, o, y, e
- synonymised — to give synonyms for (a word, name, etc.); furnish with synonyms.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- terminatory — pertaining to or forming the extremity or boundary; terminal; terminating.
- terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermometry — the branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thrombocyte — platelet.
- time of day — a definite time as shown by a timepiece; the hour: Can you tell me the time of day?
- token money — coins of the regular issue having greater face value than the value of their metal content
- tracheotomy — the operation of cutting into the trachea.
- tragicomedy — a dramatic or other literary composition combining elements of both tragedy and comedy.
- tremulously — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
- tyrosinemia — an inherited disorder of tyrosine metabolism that can lead to liver and kidney disease and mental retardation unless controlled by a special diet.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- untimeously — untimely
- urethrotomy — an operation to cut a stricture of the urethra.
- vaginectomy — excision of part or all of the vagina.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
- vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- whiteboyism — the principles or conduct of the Whiteboys
- wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
- worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- you name it — You say you name it, usually after or before a list, to indicate that you are talking about a very wide range of things.
- youth crime — crime committed by juvenile offenders
- zone system — a system for envisioning the values to appear in a black-and-white print and for determining exposure and development, based on a scale of shades ranging from 0 (black) to IX (white).
- zygomycetes — any of a wide variety of common fungi constituting the phylum Zygomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or the class Zygomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), in which sexual reproduction is by the formation of zygospores.
- zymogenesis — the conversion of a zymogen into an enzyme
- zymosimeter — a device for measuring the rate or degree of fermentation