12-letter words containing b, e, l, y, a
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- call-by-name — (reduction) (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
- call-by-need — (reduction) A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
- carbamylurea — biuret.
- carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- cleanability — the ability to be cleaned
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybernetical — of or relating to cybernetics
- cyberreality — A reality created in cyberspace.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- decasyllabic — having ten syllables: a decasyllabic verse.
- decasyllable — a word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables
- decidability — the capability of being decided
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- determinably — In a determinable way.