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11-letter words containing b, e, y

  • emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
  • energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
  • enviability — The state or condition of being enviable.
  • equilibrity — the state of being in equilibrium
  • erasability — the state of being erasable
  • erodibility — the ability to erode
  • erythorbate — erythorbic acid; a food additive used as an antioxidant
  • ethnobotany — The scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.
  • exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
  • exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
  • expressibly — In an expressible way.
  • exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
  • eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
  • fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
  • farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
  • feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
  • flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
  • flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
  • followed by — You use followed by to say what comes after something else in a list or ordered set of things.
  • forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
  • foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
  • fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
  • freebootery — the practices of a freebooter
  • fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
  • gamble away — lose through gambling
  • gibberingly — While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.
  • glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
  • gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
  • gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
  • green bytes — (jargon)   (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
  • hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
  • hobbledehoy — an awkward, ungainly youth.
  • hobbletehoy — Archaic form of hobbledehoy.
  • hobby-horse — You describe a subject or idea as your hobby-horse if you have strong feelings on it and like talking about it whenever you have the opportunity.
  • hobbyhorses — Plural form of hobbyhorse.
  • holly berry — a bitter, slightly poisonous berry that grows on holly trees or shrubs
  • home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
  • honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
  • hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
  • hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
  • hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
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