11-letter words containing o, y, a, m
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paper money — currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paramountly — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- plasmolysis — contraction of the protoplasm in a living cell when water is removed by exosmosis.
- play possum — opossum.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- polymyalgia — a chronic inflammatory disease, common among older persons, characterized by recurrent episodes of muscle pain and stiffness, sometimes leading to cardiovascular complications or blindness.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- postprimary — of or relating to education after primary school
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- primatology — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- protanomaly — a defect of vision characterized by a diminished response of the retina to red.
- protomartyr — the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- ready money — money that is in hand or may be obtained quickly or easily; cash.
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- rotary pump — a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
- semasiology — semantics, especially the study of semantic change.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- smokey bear — an officer or officers of a state highway patrol.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.