11-letter words containing s, y, m
- if you must — You say 'if you must' when you know that you cannot stop someone doing something that you think is wrong or stupid.
- immunoassay — any laboratory method for detecting a substance by using an antibody reactive with it.
- impassively — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- impassivity — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- impetuosity — the quality or condition of being impetuous.
- impetuously — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- implausibly — In an implausible or dubious manner.
- imprecisely — In an imprecise manner.
- impressibly — In an impressible manner.
- impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
- impulsively — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- impulsivity — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- inestimably — In an inestimable manner.
- inky smudge — a judge
- intersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- iris family — the plant family Iridaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having bulbs, corms, or rhizomes, sword-shaped grasslike leaves, and usually showy flowers, and including the blackberry lily, crocus, freesia, gladiolus, and iris.
- isorhythmic — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- james riley — James Whitcomb [hwit-kuh m,, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt kəm,, ˈwɪt-/ (Show IPA), 1849–1916, U.S. poet.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- kailyardism — kaleyard school.
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- kirby-smith — Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- kiss my ass — expressing defiance or contempt
- lady's maid — a maid who is a woman's personal attendant, as in dressing.
- lady's room — ladies' room
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- lay baptism — baptism administered by a lay-person.
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- limitlessly — In an limitless way.
- literaryism — habitual use of literary forms
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- 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.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- magistrally — In a magistral manner; authoritatively; dogmatically.
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- mammaplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.