12-letter words containing a, s, y
- attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
- audio system — integrated equipment for producing amplified sound, as in a hi-fi or a mobile disco, or as a public-address system on stage
- auspiciously — promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
- autistically — in an autistic manner or the manner of a person who has autism
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
- avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
- axisymmetric — being symmetrical around an axis
- baby's-tears — a mosslike plant, Soleirolia (or Helxine) soleirolii, of the nettle family, native to Corsica and Sardinia, having small, roundish leaves and minute flowers.
- 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.
- barley sugar — Barley sugar is a sweet made from boiled sugar.
- barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
- barratrously — In a barratrous manner.
- basic salary — base pay.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
- bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
- bathyspheres — Plural form of bathysphere.
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- bell's palsy — a usually temporary paralysis of the muscles of the face, normally on one side
- bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
- 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.
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- 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
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- by any means — in any way possible; at all; somehow
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.