11-letter words containing b, o, y, s
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- 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
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- 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
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- 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.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- corbynomics — the economic policies advocated by Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party from 2015
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- deoxyribose — a pentose sugar obtained by the hydrolysis of DNA. Formula: C5H10O4
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
- donnybrooks — Plural form of donnybrook.
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- embryoblast — A mass of cells at the embryonic pole of the blastocyst, that develops to form the embryo.
- eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- hobby-horse — You describe a subject or idea as your hobby-horse if you have strong feelings on it and like talking about it whenever you have the opportunity.
- hobbyhorses — Plural form of hobbyhorse.
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
- hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- hypsophobia — an extreme or abnormal fear of heights
- indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
- irresolubly — In a irresoluble manner.
- isoantibody — (formerly) an alloantibody.