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13-letter words containing y, r

  • miliary fever — an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles
  • military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
  • military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
  • military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
  • military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
  • military time — 24-hour clock
  • mineral jelly — a gelatinous product made from petroleum, used to stabilize certain explosives.
  • ministerially — In the character or capacity of a minister.
  • minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • misery memoir — A misery memoir is a book that someone has written about their own life in which they describe many sad things that happened when they were a child.
  • missouri city — a city in SE Texas.
  • mistrustfully — In a mistrustful manner.
  • mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
  • molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
  • mollycoddlers — Plural form of mollycoddler.
  • monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
  • monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
  • money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • money matters — issues concerning finances or money, esp your own finances or money
  • money to burn — more money than one needs
  • money-changer — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
  • money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • money-spinner — If you say that something is a money-spinner, you mean that it earns a lot of money for someone.
  • moneychangers — Plural form of moneychanger.
  • moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
  • moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • monkey bridge — flying bridge.
  • monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
  • monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monkey wrench — spanner
  • monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • monosymmetric — zygomorphic.
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
  • monterey pine — a pine tree, Pinus radiata, native to coastal California, having cones that open to germinate only in the heat of a forest fire, used for reforestation and as a timber tree.
  • moral victory — greater honour despite losing
  • morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
  • moreno valley — city in S Calif.: pop. 142,000
  • morgan le fay — the fairy sister of King Arthur.
  • morning glory — any of various plants, especially of the genera Ipomoea and Convolvulus, as I. purpurea, a twining plant having cordate leaves and funnel-shaped flowers of various colors, often opening only in the morning.
  • morning-glory — any of various plants, especially of the genera Ipomoea and Convolvulus, as I. purpurea, a twining plant having cordate leaves and funnel-shaped flowers of various colors, often opening only in the morning.
  • morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
  • morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
  • motorbicycles — Plural form of motorbicycle.
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