11-letter words containing b, i, y
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
- psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
- pudibundity — prudery
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quebec city — French Canadian capital
- quotability — The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
- radiability — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- readability — Also, readableness. the state or quality of being readable.
- reclaimably — in a reclaimable manner
- redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- reliability — the ability to be relied on or depended on, as for accuracy, honesty, or achievement.
- rentability — a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- repressibly — in a repressible way
- responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- reusability — reuse
- review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
- ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
- ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
- roadability — the ability of a motor vehicle to maintain a steady, balanced, and comfortable ride, especially under a variety of road conditions.
- robotically — in a robotic manner
- rubrum lily — either of two cultivated lilies, Lilium auratum rubrum or L. speciosum rubrum, having showy red flowers.
- ruby silver — proustite.
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- saleability — subject to or suitable for sale; readily sold: The books were sent back by the store in salable condition.
- satiability — capable of being satiated.
- scalability — the ability of something, esp a computer system, to adapt to increased demands
- scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
- shabby chic — Shabby Chic is a style of decorating the inside of a house in which the furniture and house look slightly used or old in a way that is attractive.
- shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- silly billy — a clownish person.
- silverberry — a shrub, Elaeagnus commutata (or E. argentea), of north-central North America, having silvery leaves and flowers and silvery, drupelike edible fruit.
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- sociability — the act or an instance of being sociable.
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- sorbability — the ability of something to absorb