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11-letter words containing a, r, y

  • barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
  • battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
  • beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
  • beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
  • 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 code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binary data — binary file
  • 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.
  • binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
  • binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
  • binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • 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 warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • 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
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