16-letter words containing b, l, y

port phillip bay — a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
query by example — (database, language) (QBE) A user-friendly query language developed by Moshé Zloof of IBM in 1975.
raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
renewable energy — any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.
republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
research library — a general or specialized library that collects materials for use in intensive research projects.
rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
run-time library — (operating system, programming, library) A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
sb will be lucky — If you say that someone will be lucky to do or get something, you mean that they are very unlikely to do or get it, and will definitely not do or get any more than that.
scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
strawberry blond — reddish blond.
strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.
symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
take the liberty — do sth without permission
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.
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.
to blow your top — If someone blows their top, they become very angry about something.
transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
triboelectricity — electricity generated by friction.
turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
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.
vegetable oyster — salsify.
verbal auxiliary — an auxiliary verb, especially when considered as a member of a separate class of words used with verbs rather than as a special subclass of verbs.
visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
well-baby clinic — a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education and advice for parents of babies
whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail

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