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11-letter words containing b, a, y, e

  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
  • bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • 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.
  • bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • 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.
  • bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
  • 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
  • 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
  • by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
  • 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.
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
  • candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
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