11-letter words containing a, s, y, r
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- 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
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- 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
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- 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
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- 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)
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- 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
- 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.
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- caravansary — in the Near and Middle East, a kind of inn with a large central court, where caravans stop for the night
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- caressively — caressingly