11-letter words containing y, a, m, e, r
- marmoreally — In a marmoreal fashion; like marble.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mary leakey — Louis Seymour Bazett [baz-it] /ˈbæz ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
- mass-energy — mass and energy considered as equivalent and interconvertible, according to the theory of relativity
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- masterfully — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- materiality — material nature or quality.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- medley race — a relay race in which each contestant must cover a different distance
- 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
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- mercenarily — In a mercenary way, for selfish reason of profit or gain.
- mercurially — In a mercurial manner.
- mercury arc — a bluish-green electric arc that has passed through a mercury-vapor cathode.
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- merrymakers — Plural form of merrymaker.
- merrymaking — the act of taking part gaily or enthusiastically in some festive or merry celebration.
- mersey beat — the characteristic pop music of the Beatles and other groups from Liverpool in the 1960s
- 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
- methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
- mixed layer — the surface layer of water, seasonally varying in thickness, that is at almost uniform temperature owing to agitation by waves and wind.
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molendinary — a mill
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- money-maker — a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monohydrate — a hydrate that contains one molecule of water, as ammonium carbonate, (NH 4) 2 CO 3 ·H 2 O.
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- multiplayer — of or relating to a video game, or a portion of a video game, in which more than one person plays at the same time in a shared game environment: a multiplayer game; multiplayer mode; a multiplayer experience.
- murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
- muscle mary — a homosexual man who practises bodybuilding
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mycorrhizae — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- mystery bag — a sausage
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
- ninnyhammer — a fool or simpleton; ninny.
- nonmonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- normatively — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- numerically — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nurserymaid — Nursemaid.