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11-letter words containing b, o, y

  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
  • bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body horror — a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body rhythm — biorhythm.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
  • borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • bosom buddy — close friend
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
  • botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
  • 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.
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • 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
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • 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
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
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