12-letter words containing o, n, l, y
- lemon yellow — a clear, yellowish-green color.
- leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
- leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
- leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- libidinosity — lustfulness
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- licentiously — In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- liothyronine — A form of thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism and myxedema coma.
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- locationally — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- lollygagging — lallygag.
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- long-playing — of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- looney-tunes — crazy; demented
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
- lyophilizing — Present participle of lyophilize.
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- madonna lily — a lily, Lilium candidum, having clusters of pure white, bell-shaped flowers.
- malevolently — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malnormality — (mathematics, group theory) The property of a subgroup H of a group G where, for any x in G but not in H, H and Hx intersect in the identity element.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- mean anomaly — the anomaly of a mean planet; the angular distance of the planet from perihelion or aphelion.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- mesocyclones — Plural form of mesocyclone.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
- mnemonically — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- monastically — In a monastic manner.
- money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
- money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
- moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
- moneylending — The action of lending money.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head