9-letter words containing a, b, y
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bipyramid — a geometrical form consisting of two pyramids with a common polygonal base
- bit decay — bit rot
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- bizarrely — markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior. Synonyms: weird, freakish, grotesque; fantastic; unusual, strange, odd.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blaeberry — whortleberry.
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- blatantly — Blatantly is used to add emphasis when you are describing states or situations which you think are bad.
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- blazingly — in a blazing manner
- bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
- blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- blue army — an organization maintaining a directory of tradesmen and checking on the quality of the service they provide.
- blue baby — A blue baby is a baby whose skin is slightly blue because it has been born with something wrong with its heart.
- bodh gaya — a village in central Bihar, in NE India: site of tree under which Siddhartha became the Buddha.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body part — a part of a human body
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- bodyboard — a surfboard that is shorter and blunter than the standard board and on which the surfer lies rather than stands
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
- boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boom baby — a person born in the years of the baby boom
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- brinjarry — (in India) an itinerant grain and salt trader
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.