11-letter words containing a, b, y
- assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
- atrabiliary — Of or relating to black bile.
- baby boomer — A baby boomer is someone who was born during a baby boom, especially during the years after the end of the Second World War.
- baby broker — an adoption service, esp on the internet
- baby lotion — a skin lotion for babies
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-boomer — a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- baby-walker — a light frame on casters or wheels to help a baby learn to walk
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- baddeleyite — a mineral consisting largely of zirconium dioxide: a source of zirconium. Formula: ZrO2
- baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
- baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
- balmorality — an idealization of Scottish traditions and culture
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- bandy-bandy — a small Australian elapid snake, Vermicella annulata, ringed with black and yellow
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
- banteringly — in a bantering fashion
- banyan-tree — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
- baranavichy — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
- barbary fig — prickly pear.
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- barley beer — an alcoholic drink brewed from barley malt, sugar, hops, and water and fermented with yeast
- barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
- barley sack — a burlap bag.