12-letter words containing a, c, y
- backroom boy — You can refer to a man as a backroom boy when he does important work in an organization and has good ideas but is not seen or known about by the public.
- bacteriology — Bacteriology is the science and the study of bacteria.
- bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
- balletically — in a balletic fashion; gracefully
- banbury cake — a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
- barbarically — without civilizing influences; uncivilized; primitive: barbaric invaders.
- barbary duck — the flesh of a Muscovy duck used as food
- barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
- basic salary — base pay.
- bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
- bathygraphic — of or relating to the depths of the ocean
- bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
- bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
- battery acid — acid used in batteries, esp car batteries
- beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- beneficially — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- bicarpellary — (of an ovary) having two carpels
- bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
- bicycle race — cycling (def 2).
- bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
- binary color — secondary color.
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- biologically — pertaining to biology.
- birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
- black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
- black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
- black canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.
- black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- brachycranic — having a cranial index of 81.0–85.4.
- brachygraphy — shorthand; stenography
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brahmacharya — the stage of life of the student, entailing study of the Vedas and complete celibacy, usually lasting for twelve years.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.