13-letter words containing m, o, y, e
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- systemization — systematize.
- t-stop system — a system of stops calibrated by T numbers.
- take by storm — be a sudden success
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- temerariously — in an audacious manner
- tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
- thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
- thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
- tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
- time is money — don't waste time
- token economy — a method of encouraging desirable behavior, especially in a hospital setting, by offering rewards of token money that can be exchanged for special food, access to television, and other bonuses.
- token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
- tom and jerry — a hot drink made of rum and water or milk, beaten eggs, spices, and sugar.
- tompot blenny — a variety of blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), with tentacles over its eyes
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
- tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- uncommendably — in an uncommendable manner
- underemployed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unemotionally — without the expression of strong feeling
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
- violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
- woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking