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13-letter words containing n, y, m

  • gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • gross anatomy — the branch of anatomy that deals with structures that can be seen with the naked eye.
  • gymnastically — In a gymnastic manner.
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynandromorph — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gynomonoecism — the condition of having female flowers and also flowers that have a pistil and stamen on the same plant
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • heavy element — any element heavier than helium
  • helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
  • hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • hexamethylene — cyclohexane.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
  • hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
  • hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.
  • hydromorphone — A synthetic narcotic analgesic, (4,5 alpha-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17-methyl morphinan-6-one), similar to morphine and heroin. It is used for moderate to severe pain under the trade name Dilaudid.
  • hydronium ion — the hydrogen ion bonded to a molecule of water, H 3 O + , the form in which hydrogen ions are found in aqueous solution.
  • hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
  • hymenopterans — Plural form of hymenopteran.
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hymenorrhaphy — (medicine) Reconstructive surgery in which a woman's hymen is restored to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
  • hymnal stanza — common measure (def 2).
  • hymnal-stanza — common time.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hypernatremia — an abnormally high concentration of sodium in the blood.
  • hypernephroma — Renal cell carcinoma.
  • hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
  • hypersplenism — an abnormal condition characterized by an enlarged spleen that prematurely destroys red blood cells or platelets.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • hyponatraemia — a condition in which there is a low concentration of sodium in the blood
  • hyponymically — In a hyponymic way.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • iconic memory — the temporary persistence of visual impressions after the stimulus has been removed
  • ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
  • imaginability — The quality of being imaginable.
  • imaginatively — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • immune system — a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies, and lymphokines.
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