12-letter words containing m, y, i, a
- enemy action — offensive military action by your military enemy
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- epidemically — In the manner of an epidemic.
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- 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 album — photos of a family
- family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
- family style — a way of serving food, as in boardinghouses and some restaurants, in which the people at the table help themselves from large dishes passed around from hand to hand
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- 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.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- 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.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
- 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.
- gigantomachy — (in Greek mythology) the struggle between the gods and the giants.
- 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.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- hamartiology — the doctrine of sin in Christian theology
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
- hemihydrates — Plural form of hemihydrate.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
- hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
- hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- histiocytoma — A tumour consisting of histiocytes.