11-letter words containing y, a, m, o, u
- 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.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
- mucociliary — Of or pertaining to the action of cilia in transporting mucus.
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- myelomatous — Relating to a myeloma.
- mystagogues — Plural form of mystagogue.
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- nonautonomy — Lack of autonomy.
- nyu omnifax — Early system on UNIVAC I or II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paramountly — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- play possum — opossum.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rotary pump — a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- unanimously — of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.
- uncustomary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- unmandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- unmemorably — in a way that is not memorable
- urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
- valvulotomy — the opening, slitting, or fracturing of a heart valve.
- you name it — You say you name it, usually after or before a list, to indicate that you are talking about a very wide range of things.
- zanthoxylum — any rutaceous shrub or tree of the genus Zanthoxylum, of temperate and subtropical E Asia and North America: includes the prickly ash and the West Indian yellowwood (or satinwood)
- zygomaticus — (anatomy) One of several small subcutaneous facial muscles arising from or in relation with the zygoma.