11-letter words containing n, o, m, y
- symphonette — a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.
- symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- syndesmoses — a connection of bones by ligaments, fasciae, or membranes other than in a joint.
- syndesmosis — a connection of bones by ligaments, fasciae, or membranes other than in a joint.
- synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
- synonymical — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- synonymicon — a dictionary of synonyms
- synonymised — to give synonyms for (a word, name, etc.); furnish with synonyms.
- syringotomy — surgical removal of a fistula
- szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
- 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.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- terminatory — pertaining to or forming the extremity or boundary; terminal; terminating.
- terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- titanomachy — the unsuccessful revolt of the family of the Titan Iapetus against Zeus
- token money — coins of the regular issue having greater face value than the value of their metal content
- trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- trypanosoma — trypanosome.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
- tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
- tyrosinemia — an inherited disorder of tyrosine metabolism that can lead to liver and kidney disease and mental retardation unless controlled by a special diet.
- 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.
- uncustomary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- unmandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- untimeously — untimely
- urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
- vaginectomy — excision of part or all of the vagina.
- 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.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- you name it — You say you name it, usually after or before a list, to indicate that you are talking about a very wide range of things.
- 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)
- zone system — a system for envisioning the values to appear in a black-and-white print and for determining exposure and development, based on a scale of shades ranging from 0 (black) to IX (white).
- zymogenesis — the conversion of a zymogen into an enzyme