11-letter words containing b, e, y
- banyan-tree — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- barley beer — an alcoholic drink brewed from barley malt, sugar, hops, and water and fermented with yeast
- barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
- barley-bree — liquor, malt liquor, or the like, especially whiskey.
- barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
- battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- bay village — a city in N central Ohio.
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- be my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)