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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.
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