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9-letter words containing m, y, o

  • fort lamy — former name of N'Djamena.
  • fort myer — a military reservation in N Virginia, N of Alexandria.
  • fort-lamy — former name of N'Djamena.
  • frenotomy — The surgical cutting of the frenum.
  • from away — from a part of Canada other than Newfoundland
  • fulsomely — In a fulsome manner.
  • gasometry — the measurement of gases.
  • gemmology — (mineralogy, petrology) the branch of mineralogy that studies mineral gems and petrified gemstones.
  • gizmology — gadgetry; gadgets collectively
  • gnomology — a collection or anthology of gnomes or aphorisms.
  • golomynka — an oily fish found only in Lake Baikal
  • gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
  • gray mold — a disease of plants, characterized by a gray, furry coating on the decaying parts, caused by any of several fungi.
  • gummosity — the quality of being gummous
  • gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
  • gyrectomy — excision of a cerebral gyrus.
  • gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
  • haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
  • haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
  • halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
  • hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
  • hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
  • hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
  • hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
  • hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
  • hemolyzed — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
  • hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
  • hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
  • heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
  • high moby — /hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low moby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. See moby.
  • holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
  • holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
  • home keys — (hardware)   The eight keys on a typewriter or computer keyboard on which a touch-typist positions their eight finger tips when starting to type or when resting between words or phrases. Typists learn the position of all keys on the keyboard in relation to the home keys. On a standard english keyboard layout, the home keys are ASDF for the left hand and JKL; for the right. Most keyboards have small raised bumps on the left and right index finger keys (F and J) so you can find the home keys by touch without looking.
  • homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
  • homeomery — the condition of being made up of similar parts
  • homestays — Plural form of homestay.
  • homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
  • homeyness — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
  • homiliary — a collection of homilies.
  • homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.
  • homocercy — the condition in fish of having a symmetrical tail
  • homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
  • homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
  • homonymic — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
  • homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
  • homophony — the quality or state of being homophonic.
  • homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
  • homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
  • homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.
  • homostyly — (in plants) the condition of having all the flowers with styles of only one length, rather than of different lengths
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