8-letter words containing y, a, m
- mannerly — having or showing good manners; courteous; polite.
- mansonry — mansions or dwelling places collectively
- manually — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- many-one — (of a relation) having the property that each element is assigned to one element only but that many elements may be assigned to the same element.
- manyatta — (East Africa) A Masai or Samburu settlement or compound, often temporary, established by a family or clan, or as an encampment of young warriors.
- manyfold — by many times; by multiples: The state's highway expenses have increased manyfold in the past decade.
- manyness — The quality or state of being many.
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- markedly — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- marry up — to join
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- martyred — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- martyria — a place where the relics of a martyr are kept.
- martyrly — Like a martyr; martyrish.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- maryland — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast. 10,577 sq. mi. (27,395 sq. km). Capital: Annapolis. Abbreviation: MD (for use with zip code), Md.
- masonary — Misspelling of masonry.
- masterly — like or befitting a master, as in skill or art; worthy of a master; very skillful: a masterly presentation of the budget.
- matronly — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a matron; maturely dignified; stately.
- mattedly — in a matted manner
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- may tree — the hawthorn.
- may wine — a punch consisting typically of Alsatian, Moselle, or Rhine wine, flavored with woodruff.
- may-blob — marsh marigold.
- maya lin — Maya Ying [mah-yuh ying] /ˈmɑ yə ˈyɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1959, U.S. architect and sculptor.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mayapple — American plant
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- mayoress — a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- mccarthy — Cormac [kawr-mak,, ‐muh k] /ˈkɔr mæk,, ‐mək/ (Show IPA), born 1933, U.S. novelist.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
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- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- medially — situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- medianly — In a median direction.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- mel kaye — (person) The hero of The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer. The preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959) contain the following attribution from Clay S. Boswell, Jr. (apparently ACT 1's designer): I wish to acknowledge my appreciation to the many people who offered suggestions and criticisms of the ACT 1 System. In particular, Mel Kaye of Royal McBee who did the bulk of the programming. (2008-08-04)
- menially — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.