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11-letter words containing a, n, l, y

  • bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
  • bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • 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
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
  • calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
  • call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
  • callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
  • calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
  • canada lynx — a North American lynx (Lynx lynx canadensis) with tufted ears and a stubby tail
  • cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
  • candy floss — cotton candy.
  • canonically — pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
  • carcinology — the study of crustaceans
  • cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
  • caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
  • chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
  • chancellery — A chancellery is the building where a chancellor has his offices.
  • chancellory — Alternative spelling of chancellery.
  • changefully — In a changeful manner.
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