10-letter words containing a, y
- babyboomer — Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
- babylonian — an inhabitant of ancient Babylon or Babylonia
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- back alley — dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back-alley — Back-alley activities are carried out unofficially, secretly, and often illegally.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backwardly — In a backward direction.
- backwoodsy — like or of the nature of backwoods
- baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- baggataway — a form of lacrosse as played originally by the Ojibwa Indians.
- balikbayan — (Philippines) A Filipino returning to the Philippines after spending time in another country. (from 20th c.).
- ballantyne — R(obert) M(ichael). 1825–94, British author, noted for such adventure stories as The Coral Island (1857)
- ballplayer — A ballplayer is a baseball player.
- ballyhooed — a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
- ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
- balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
- bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- bardolatry — idolatry or excessive admiration of William Shakespeare
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barrow boy — A barrow boy is a man or boy who sells fruit or other goods from a barrow in the street.
- barrow-boy — a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.
- barycenter — (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal.
- barycentre — a centre of mass, esp of the earth-moon system or the solar system
- barysphere — centrosphere (def 2).
- basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
- baselessly — In a baseless way.
- bat chayil — (in some congregations) a ceremony of confirmation for a girl of at least Bat Mitzvah age
- bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
- bathyscaph — a submersible vessel having a flotation compartment with an observation capsule underneath, capable of reaching ocean depths of over 10 000 metres (about 5000 fathoms)
- batter-fry — to coat with batter and fry in deep fat.
- battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
- bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
- bay poplar — the tupelo, Nyssa aquatica.
- bay street — the financial centre of Toronto, in which Canada's largest stock exchange is situated
- bay window — A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.
- bay wreath — (In Greek and Roman times) a wreath of laurel leaves, worn by a victor
- bayberries — Plural form of bayberry.
- bayezid ii — ?1447–1512, sultan of Turkey; he greatly extended Turkish dominions in Greece and the Balkans
- bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
- bayonetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.