11-letter words containing y, n
- kite flying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
- kittenishly — In a kittenish manner.
- knock rummy — a variety of rummy for two to six players, in which a player can end a game by laying down a hand with any number of points in cards not included in sets.
- knotty pine — pine wood with many knots
- knowability — capable of being known.
- koilonychia — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; spoon nail.
- krasnoyarsk — a territory of the Russian Federation in N and central Asia. 827,507 sq. mi. (2,143,243 sq. km).
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- la fresnaye — Roger de [raw-zhey duh] /rɔˈʒeɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1885–1925, French painter.
- labyrinthal — Like a maze or labyrinth, intricate or convoluted. labyrinthine.
- labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- laconically — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lake annecy — a lake in E France, in the Alps
- lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lantern fly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- laryngology — the branch of medicine dealing with the larynx.
- laryngotomy — incision of the larynx.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lay analyst — a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree.
- lay eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- leaden-eyed — heavy-eyed; dull-eyed
- legationary — Relating to a legation.
- legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- lianyungang — a city in NE Jiangsu province, in E China.
- lichenology — the branch of biology that studies lichens.
- lienyunkang — Lianyungang.
- lieutenancy — the office, authority, incumbency, or jurisdiction of a lieutenant.
- ligamentary — Of or relating to ligaments.
- linear type — 1. (theory, programming) An attribute of values which are used exactly once: they are neither duplicated nor destroyed. Such values require no garbage collection, and can safely be updated in place, even if they form part of a data structure. Linear types are related to the linear logic of J.-Y Girard. They extend Schmidt's notion of single threading, provide an alternative to Hudak and Bloss' update analysis, and offer a practical complement to Lafont and Holmström's elegant linear languages.
- lingenberry — The lingonberry.
- lingeringly — In a lingering manner, persistently, tending to remain.
- lingonberry — mountain cranberry.
- liquescency — The quality or state of being liquescent.
- loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- lognormally — in the manner of having a having a natural logarithm with normal distribution