12-letter words containing ry
- library book — a book owned by a library
- library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- likely story — dubious account
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- magnetometry — (physics) The measurement of magnetic fields (strength and direction etc).
- make history — do sth of great significance
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- memory smash — (jargon) A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location addressed by a dangling pointer.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- memory trace — engram.
- memory verse — a verse or passage from the Bible to be memorized, especially by members of a Sunday school.
- mercury mass — blue mass (def 1).
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
- merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
- meta-crystal — (language) A language for transformations of Crystal programs. Implemented in T.
- methacrylate — an ester or salt derived from methacrylic acid.
- microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microcrystal — a microscopic crystal.
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- model theory — the branch of logic that deals with the properties of models; the semantic study of formal systems
- modificatory — modifying.
- multisensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- myrmecochory — the dispersal of fruits and seeds by ants
- mystery play — a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
- mystery tour — an excursion to an unspecified destination
- nanocrystals — Plural form of nanocrystal.
- nasolacrymal — relating to the tear duct
- nephelometry — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- neurosensory — of or relating to the sensory role of the nervous system.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- non-literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- non-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- non-monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- nonarbitrary — decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute.
- nonformulary — Not formulary.