13-letter words containing y, a, m, o, u
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- many-coloured — having many colours
- matriculatory — relating to matriculation
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- monumentality — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
- mount stanley — a mountain in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo: the highest peak of the Ruwenzori range. Height: 5109 m (16 763 ft)
- mountainously — In a mountainous way.
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multimodality — the quality or state of being modal.
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- mycobacterium — A bacterium of a group that includes the causative agents of leprosy and tuberculosis.
- non-ambiguity — doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- non-customary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
- paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
- passamaquoddy — a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- polythalamous — having multiple chambers
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.