11-letter words containing o, y, a, m
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- melodically — melodious.
- memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
- memory card — a very small, portable electronic device for flash-memory data storage, as in a digital camera, cell phone, or digital media player.
- memory foam — a polyurethane-containing material that adapts to the contours of the body, making it useful in supportive pillows, mattresses, soles and so on
- 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 leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- metallogeny — the study of the formation of mineral deposits
- methylation — the process of replacing a hydrogen atom with a methyl group.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- micro-party — a small political party, esp one focusing on a single issue
- microarrays — Plural form of microarray.
- micrography — the description or delineation of microscopic objects.
- 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.
- mitotically — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- mob oratory — oratory designed to appeal to and inflame the emotions of a crowd, as for example Hitler's oratory
- moholy-nagy — László [las-loh;; Hungarian lahs-loh] /ˈlæs loʊ;; Hungarian ˈlɑs loʊ/ (Show IPA), or Ladislaus [lah-dis-lous] /ˈlɑ dɪsˌlaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1895–1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and photographer, in the U.S. after 1936.
- moldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molendinary — a mill
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- mommy track — a career path for women who are willing to forgo promotions, raises, etc., so as to spend more time with their children.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- moneymaking — profitable: a moneymaking scheme.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monodactyly — having only one digit or claw.
- monohydrate — a hydrate that contains one molecule of water, as ammonium carbonate, (NH 4) 2 CO 3 ·H 2 O.
- 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.
- montego bay — a city in NW Jamaica: seaside resort.
- moray firth — an arm of the North Sea projecting into the NE coast of Scotland. Inland portion about 30 miles (48 km) long.
- morgan city — a city in S Louisiana: headquarters for offshore oil drilling and base for shrimp fleet.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.