8-letter words containing my
- lobotomy — the operation of cutting into a lobe, as of the brain or the lung.
- meronymy — (semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.
- metonomy — Misspelling of metonymy.
- metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
- misogamy — hatred of marriage.
- monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- monomyth — (mythology) a cyclical journey or quest undertaken by a mythical hero.
- monosemy — The property of having only one meaning.
- monosomy — The condition of having a diploid chromosome complement in which one (usually the X) chromosome lacks its homologous partner.
- mormyrid — any of numerous African freshwater fishes of the family Mormyridae, many species of which have an elongated snout and are capable of producing an electric discharge.
- my aunt! — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- my foot! — an expression of disbelief, often of the speaker's own preceding statement
- my word! — an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- myatonia — deficient muscle tone.
- mycelial — Of or pertaining to the mycelium.
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- mycetism — poisoning due to mushrooms.
- mycetoma — a chronic tumorous infection caused by any of various soil-dwelling fungi, usually affecting the foot.
- mycology — the branch of biology dealing with fungi.
- mycostat — a substance or preparation that prevents or inhibits the growth of molds.
- myelitis — inflammation of the substance of the spinal cord.
- myelomas — Plural form of myeloma.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- mylonite — Geology. a rock that has been crushed and sheared to such an extent that its original texture has been destroyed.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- myocytes — Plural form of myocyte.
- myogenic — originating in muscle, as an impulse or sensation.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- myokymia — twitching of individual segments of a muscle.
- myologic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.
- myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
- myonemes — Plural form of myoneme.
- myopathy — any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.
- myophily — pollination of plants by flies
- myoporum — any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Myoporum, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, cultivated in warm regions as hedges or ornamentals.
- myoscope — an instrument for observing muscular contraction.
- myositis — Inflammation and degeneration of muscle tissue.
- myosotis — any plant belonging to the genus Myosotis, of the borage family, having basal leaves and pink or white flowers, as the forget-me-not.
- myospasm — A sudden, involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle.
- myotomes — Plural form of myotome.
- myotonia — tonic muscle spasm or muscular rigidity.
- myotonic — Of or pertaining to myotonia.
- 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.
- myristic — (rare) Pertaining to nutmeg.
- myrmeco- — ant
- myrmidon — Classical Mythology. one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.
- 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.