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11-letter words containing a, c, y

  • beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
  • belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
  • bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
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