11-letter words containing a, y, o
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- 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
- bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- 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.
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- 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
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calorically — in a caloric manner
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- 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
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- canonically — pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons.
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
- 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.
- carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- carcinology — the study of crustaceans
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardiodynia — pain in the heart region.