10-letter words containing y, a, m
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
- laundryman — a person who works in or operates a laundry.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- lazy sml2c — A lazy version sml2c. Portable, written in SML. Language extensions include first-class continuations, asynchronous signal handling. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://dravido.soar.cs.cmu.edu/usr/nemo/sml2c.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- limacology — the study of slugs
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lord mayor — (chiefly in Britain and the Commonwealth) the mayor of certain cities or the chief municipal officer of certain boroughs.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- lyme grass — type of perennial dune grass
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lymphedema — the accumulation of lymph in soft tissue with accompanying swelling, often of the extremities: sometimes caused by inflammation, obstruction, or removal of lymph channels.
- lymphodema — (pathology) A condition of fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system.
- lymphogram — A diagnostic image produced by lymphography.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- mack daddy — a prominent or successful pimp
- macrocycle — (chemistry) a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule.
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
- macrocytic — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- madhyamika — a school of philosophy, of a.d. c200, that attempted a reconciliation with Hinayana from a Mahayana position.
- magistracy — the office or function of a magistrate.
- magnifying — Present participle of magnify.
- main entry — the principal entry of an item in a reference text, often placed in alphabetical order.
- make merry — celebrate, be festive
- make money — make a profit
- make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- make-ready — Printing. the process of preparing a form for printing by overlays or underlays to equalize the impression.
- malacology — the science dealing with the study of mollusks.
- malay bear — a small, black bear, Ursus (Helarctos) malayanus, of Southeast Asian forests, having a light muzzle and yellow chest markings.
- malignancy — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- mama's boy — a boy or man showing excessive attachment to or dependence on his mother.
- mammectomy — mastectomy.
- mammillary — of, relating to, or resembling a mammilla.
- man friday — a male assistant to an administrator or executive; right-hand man.