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15-letter words containing b, i, y

  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • blackberry lily — an ornamental Chinese iridaceous plant, Belamcanda chinensis, that has red-spotted orange flowers and clusters of black seeds that resemble blackberries
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blessed trinity — Trinity (def 1).
  • bo diddley beat — a type of syncopated Black rhythm, frequently used in rock music
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • body mass index — A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • boys' night out — an evening spent outside of the home by a group of men
  • braille display — (hardware)   (Or "refreshable braille display", "refreshable display") An electromechanical device that renders braille with tiny, independently controlled pins used to represent the state of dots in braille cells. Each pin, in its "on" state, raises above the top of its hole in the screen; in its "off" state, it drops below the top of its hole. Older systems used tiny solenoids to control the state of the pins; modern systems are piezoelectric. Typical dimensions of a braille display are 1 line of 40 cells, each cell of two-by-eight dots.
  • breech delivery — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • british library — the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed
  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • buryat republic — a constituent republic of SE central Russia, on Lake Baikal: mountainous, with forests covering over half the total area. Capital: Ulan-Ude. Pop: 981 000 (2002). Area: 351 300 sq km (135 608 sq miles)
  • butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • byzantine chant — liturgical plainsong identified with the Eastern Orthodox Church and dating from the Byzantine Empire.
  • cabbalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calydonian boar — a savage boar sent by Artemis to destroy Calydon, a city in Aetolia, because its king had neglected to sacrifice to her. It was killed by Meleager, the king's son
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • carboxylic acid — any of a class of organic acids containing the carboxyl group
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
  • contractibility — contractability
  • controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • cystic fibrosis — Cystic fibrosis is a serious disease of the glands which usually affects children and can make breathing difficult.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
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