11-letter words containing o, y, s
- loose bytes — Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
- lost colony — a settlement of British colonists whom Walter Raleigh sent to Roanoke Island (now part of North Carolina) in 1587 and of whom no trace was found after 1591.
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- luxuriously — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- 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.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
- lyophilised — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- lysogenesis — production of a lysogen.
- lyssophobia — a pathological fear of going insane.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- massey hope — (language, functional programming) A refinement of Hope+C by Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, with improved syntax.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- mastocytoma — A tumor consisting of mastocytes, commonly found in animals.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- may blossom — the blossom of the may tree or hawthorn
- mayonnaisey — Resembling mayonnaise; mayonnaiselike.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melodiously — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- memory loss — an impaired memory or amnesia
- 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.
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- 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
- metoposcopy — the prediction of a person's fortune, or the reading of a person's character, through the examination of the forehead or face
- microarrays — Plural form of microarray.
- microphylls — Plural form of microphyll.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microsystem — A microscopic system, especially a system using microscopic electromechanical components.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of misemploy.
- misogynists — Plural form of misogynist.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.