8-letter words containing y, a, m
- my aunt! — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- myatonia — deficient muscle tone.
- mycelial — Of or pertaining to the mycelium.
- mycetoma — a chronic tumorous infection caused by any of various soil-dwelling fungi, usually affecting the foot.
- mycostat — a substance or preparation that prevents or inhibits the growth of molds.
- myelomas — Plural form of myeloma.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- myokymia — twitching of individual segments of a muscle.
- myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
- myopathy — any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.
- myospasm — A sudden, involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle.
- myotonia — tonic muscle spasm or muscular rigidity.
- myriadth — constituting a very small part of a thing
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- mysql ab — (company) The Swedish company that developes, distributes and supports the MySQL open source rdbms. MySQL AB is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, themselves acquired by Oracle Corporation on 2009-04-20.
- mystical — mystic; of or relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc.: a strange, mystical experience.
- mytacism — Excessive or incorrect use of the letter M.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- myxameba — the amebalike, usually nonflagellated, uninucleate haploid individual of a sporocarp that is released upon spore germination and feeds by engulfing bacteria and yeast: a typical stage in the life cycle of cellular slime molds.
- myxedema — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- myxomata — Plural form of myxoma.
- name day — the feast day of the saint after whom a person is named.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- normally — in a normal or regular way: The wound is healing normally.
- normandy — a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- nymphean — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- one-many — (of a relation) having the property that an element may be assigned to several elements but that given an element, only one may be assigned to it.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- overmany — an excess of people
- palimony — a form of alimony awarded to one of the partners in a romantic relationship after the breakup of that relationship following a long period of living together.
- palm bay — a town in E Florida.
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- paronymy — a play on words
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- partyism — adherence to a political party or organization.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- paynimry — paganism
- pharmacy — Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
- platysma — a broad, thin muscle on each side of the neck, extending from the upper part of the shoulder to the corner of the mouth, the action of which wrinkles the skin of the neck and depresses the corner of the mouth.