16-letter words containing b, i, t, y
- take by surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- take the liberty — do sth without permission
- tertiary bursary — a noncompetitive award granted to all pupils who have passed a university entrance examination
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
- triboelectricity — electricity generated by friction.
- trinity brethren — the members of Trinity House
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- type ii diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- variable annuity — an annuity in which the premiums are invested chiefly in common stocks or other securities, the annuitant receiving payments based on the yield of the investments instead of in fixed amounts.
- visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
- whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail
- white globe lily — a bulbous Californian plant, Calochortus albus, of the lily family, having egg-shaped white flowers with a purplish base.
- white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them