11-letter words containing m, y, l, o
- memory lane — the memory of one's past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory lane.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- memory loss — an impaired memory or amnesia
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- metallogeny — the study of the formation of mineral deposits
- meteorology — the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including weather and climate.
- methodology — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methylation — the process of replacing a hydrogen atom with a methyl group.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- microcolony — A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria).
- microfloppy — Alternative spelling of micro-floppy.
- microphylls — Plural form of microphyll.
- minocycline — a long-acting, broad-spectrum, semisynthetic antibiotic drug, C 2 3 H 2 7 N 3 O 7 , derived from tetracycline.
- misemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of misemploy.
- mitotically — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- moholy-nagy — László [las-loh;; Hungarian lahs-loh] /ˈlæs loʊ;; Hungarian ˈlɑs loʊ/ (Show IPA), or Ladislaus [lah-dis-lous] /ˈlɑ dɪsˌlaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1895–1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and photographer, in the U.S. after 1936.
- moldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molendinary — a mill
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- mollycoddle — a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.
- mollydooker — (UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
- molybdenite — a soft, graphitelike mineral, molybdenum sulfide, MoS 2 , occurring in foliated masses or scales: the principal ore of molybdenum.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- momentously — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- money-loser — something which causes someone to lose money or to make a loss rather than a profit
- moneylender — a person or organization whose business it is to lend money at interest.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monodactyly — having only one digit or claw.
- monostylous — having only one style.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- moor myrtle — an aromatic shrub, Myrica gale, of marshes, having lance-shaped leaves and yellowish fruit.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- most-livery — liverish.
- motor lorry — a motor truck, especially one with open sides.
- motorcycled — Simple past tense and past participle of motorcycle.
- motorcycles — Plural form of motorcycle.
- motorically — motor (def 11).
- moveability — Alternative form of movability.
- mucociliary — Of or pertaining to the action of cilia in transporting mucus.
- multicounty — involving or relating to several counties
- multistorey — Alternative spelling of multi-storey.