12-letter words containing b, e, l, o, y
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
- double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- inobediently — disobediently
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irreprovably — in an irreprovable manner
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.