11-letter words containing m, y, o, l
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- tally-woman — a mistress
- 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.
- term policy — a policy whose period of coverage is in excess of one year, usually paying a reduced premium rate, as in fire insurance.
- 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.
- 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.
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- tremulously — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- trimodality — (of a distribution) having three modes.
- unanimously — of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.
- uncomplying — to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed by with): They asked him to leave and he complied. She has complied with the requirements.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- untimeously — untimely
- valinomycin — a cyclic, peptide antibiotic, C 54 H 90 N 6 O 18 , produced by the bacterium Streptomyces fulvissimus; used experimentally to transport potassium across membranes.
- valvulotomy — the opening, slitting, or fracturing of a heart valve.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- victimology — the study of crime victims and the psychological effects of being a victim.
- 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.
- wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- woolly worm — woolly bear.
- worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
- 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
- zanthoxylum — any rutaceous shrub or tree of the genus Zanthoxylum, of temperate and subtropical E Asia and North America: includes the prickly ash and the West Indian yellowwood (or satinwood)