12-letter words containing b, o, y
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey badger — ratel.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- hour by hour — each hour
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- immovability — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatibly — In an incompatible manner.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- incorrigibly — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- inobediently — disobediently
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irreprovably — in an irreprovable manner
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- jiaozhou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea in NE China, in SE Shandong province
- job analysis — a detailed study of the requirements necessary to complete a job, taking into consideration chiefly the order of operation, material and machinery needed, and the necessary qualifications of workers.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- kiss goodbye — to kiss in taking leave
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.