11-letter words containing b, r, y, o
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
- bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
- 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 colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- by force of — If something happens by force of a particular quality, action, or set of circumstances, it happens because of the nature or intensity of that quality, action, or set of circumstances.
- by order of — according to the command of
- 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.
- 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