13-letter words containing m, y, o
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
- copy the mail — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- country music — a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- coxcombically — in a coxcombical manner
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- cycloheximide — a toxic antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis, used as a fungicide in agriculture
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- delivery room — In a hospital, the delivery room is the room where women give birth to their babies.
- demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- demyelination — The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, normally as a result of disease.
- demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
- demythologize — to eliminate all mythical elements from (a piece of writing, esp the Bible) so as to arrive at an essential meaning
- depolymerized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolymerize.
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dimethylketol — acetoin.
- diplomatology — diplomatics as a subject of scientific study
- dirty old man — a mature or elderly man with lewd or obscene preoccupations.
- discomycetous — of or relating to the subclass of fungus Discomycetes
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets