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11-letter words containing b, o, y, a

  • bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
  • bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
  • by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
  • by no means — on no account; in no way
  • byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
  • carbocyclic — (of a chemical compound) containing a closed ring of carbon atoms
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
  • carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
  • carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
  • cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
  • celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
  • chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
  • coilability — the ability to be coiled
  • combat duty — active service
  • combatively — In a combative way.
  • combativity — Synonym of combativeness.
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • combinatory — combinative
  • comfortably — If you do something comfortably, you do it easily.
  • commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
  • conceivably — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
  • concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
  • conformably — With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
  • connubially — As in marriage.
  • corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
  • crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
  • cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
  • daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
  • day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
  • day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
  • delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
  • demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
  • destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
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