9-letter words containing n, o, m, y
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- isoenzyme — isozyme.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- key money — advance rent or security required of a new tenant and given in exchange for the key to the house or apartment.
- limnology — the scientific study of bodies of fresh water, as lakes and ponds, with reference to their physical, geographical, biological, and other features.
- loomingly — So as to loom.
- lymington — a market town in S England, in SW Hampshire, on the Solent: yachting centre and holiday resort. Pop: 14 227 (2001)
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- mad money — a small sum of money carried or kept in reserve for minor expenses, emergencies, or impulse purchases.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandylion — a loose garment formerly worn over armour
- manometry — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manoscopy — the measurement of the densities of gases
- mansionry — (obsolete) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- manyogana — An ancient/early Japanese syllabary in which Chinese characters represented sounds instead of their regular meaning as they again do today in the form of kanji; it was the predecessor of hiragana and katakana, present Japanese phonetic alphabets; used in the Manyosh\u016b, a poetic anthology.
- matrimony — the state of being married; marriage: He was married in 1870 and lived in matrimony 12 years.
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- mind-body — taking into account the physiological, psychic, and spiritual connections between the state of the body and that of the mind: mind-body medicine.
- minor key — a key or mode based on a minor scale.
- mirrnyong — (Australia, archaeology) A mound of cooking debris accumulated by Aborigines; a kitchen midden.
- misogynic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- mitomycin — any of the antibiotics that come from Streptomyces caespitosus
- mnemosyne — the ancient Greek goddess of memory, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea and the mother by Zeus of the Muses.
- moanfully — in a moaning and mournful manner
- moaningly — With a moaning sound.
- mockingly — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- modernity — the quality of being modern.
- modifying — Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.
- moilingly — in a moiling, struggling or slogging manner
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- mondayize — to move (a statutory holiday, such as the Queen's birthday) to the nearest Monday in order to secure a long weekend
- money box — a cashbox.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- money-bag — a bag for money.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- moneyless — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- moneywise — In terms of money; financially speaking.
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
- monkeying — Present participle of monkey.
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monkeyism — the practice of copying or behaving like a monkey