10-letter words containing m, y
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- babyboomer — Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
- babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
- bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
- bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
- becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- biomimicry — the mimicking of life using imitation biological systems
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
- body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
- borborygmi — a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- call money — money loaned by banks and recallable on demand
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- capnomancy — divination by observing smoke patterns
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cataclysms — Plural form of cataclysm.
- cavalryman — A cavalryman is a soldier who is in the cavalry, especially one who rides a horse.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- charmingly — In a charming manner.
- chasmogamy — the production of flowers that open, so as to expose the reproductive organs and allow cross-pollination