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11-letter words containing a, r, y

  • 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.
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • 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
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • busy beaver — (theory)   (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
  • 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
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
  • calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
  • calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • calefactory — giving warmth
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • calorically — in a caloric manner
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • 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
  • canary seed — birdseed.
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
  • car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
  • caravansary — in the Near and Middle East, a kind of inn with a large central court, where caravans stop for the night
  • carbocyclic — (of a chemical compound) containing a closed ring of carbon atoms
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
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