11-letter words containing o, p, y
- in jeopardy — in danger, at risk
- incorruptly — Without corruption.
- inculpatory — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- ineptocracy — (countable, pejorative) A government characterized by incompetent leaders.
- inspiratory — of or relating to inspiration or inhalation.
- jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
- karyotyping — the analysis of chromosomes.
- keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- knotty pine — pine wood with many knots
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- labor party — one of the chief political parties of Australia, generally supporting the interests of organized labour
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- laparoscopy — examination of the abdominal cavity or performance of minor abdominal surgery using a laparoscope.
- lepidoptery — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- lipoatrophy — (medicine) The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
- lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- litholapaxy — the procedure of removing bladder stones by crushing them and extracting them through a catheter
- lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
- lithotripsy — the pulverization and removal of urinary calculi using a lithotripter.
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lower egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
- lymph nodes — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lymphocytes — Plural form of lymphocyte.
- lymphocytic — Of, or pertaining to lymphocytes.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphotoxin — a glycoprotein that is released by antigen-stimulated or mitogen-stimulated T cells and is toxic to various other cells.
- lyophilised — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lyophilized — Simple past tense and past participle of lyophilize.
- lyophilizer — Freeze-drying equipment; freeze-dryer.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- lyssophobia — a pathological fear of going insane.
- macrography — examination or study of an object with the naked eye (opposed to micrography).
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrophytic — Relating to macrophytes.
- major party — a political party with enough electoral strength to periodically gain control of the government or to effectively oppose the party in power.
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.