11-letter words containing n, y, o, r
- low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- main memory — program-addressable storage that is directly controlled by and generally contained in the CPU: except for cache storage, the fastest type of storage available to any computer system.
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manufactory — a factory.
- marc antony — Antony, Mark.
- marionberry — a cross between a loganberry and a blackberry
- mark antony — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory lane — the memory of one's past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory lane.
- memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
- merry mount — a settlement in Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), Mass., c1625–28, noted for its rejection of Puritan standards of behavior.
- microcolony — A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria).
- minor party — a political party with so little electoral strength that its chance of gaining control of the government is slight.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- molendinary — a mill
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
- money order — an order for the payment of money, as one issued by one bank or post office and payable at another.
- money-loser — something which causes someone to lose money or to make a loss rather than a profit
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneylender — a person or organization whose business it is to lend money at interest.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monkey sort — bogo-sort
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- monohydrate — a hydrate that contains one molecule of water, as ammonium carbonate, (NH 4) 2 CO 3 ·H 2 O.
- monohydroxy — (of a molecule) containing one hydroxyl group.
- monomyarian — any bivalve mollusc of the group Monomyaria (or Monomya) that have a single posterior adductor muscle
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- monstrosity — the state or character of being monstrous.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- montmorency — Anne [an;; French an] /æn;; French an/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1493–1567, French marshal: constable of France 1537.
- morgan city — a city in S Louisiana: headquarters for offshore oil drilling and base for shrimp fleet.
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- mycoprotein — A food product derived from fungus, the basis of Quorn.
- myonecrosis — Necrosis of muscle tissue.
- myringotomy — surgical incision of the tympanic membrane.
- myrmidonian — comprising or resembling myrmidons
- nanocrystal — A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.