9-letter words containing b, a, y, s
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- casco bay — bay on the SW coast of Maine, on which Portland is located
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- estimably — In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.
- excusably — In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
- false bay — a bay in SW South Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- gigabytes — Plural form of gigabyte.
- goose bay — an air base in S central Labrador, in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the great circle route between New York and London: used as a fuel stop by some transatlantic airplanes.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- james bay — the S arm of Hudson Bay, in E Canada between Ontario and Quebec provinces. 300 miles (483 km) long; 160 miles (258 km) wide.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.