12-letter words containing b, r, y
- crystal ball — If you say that someone, especially an expert, looks into a crystal ball, you mean that they are trying to predict the future. Crystal balls are traditionally used by fortune-tellers.
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cyberattacks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cyberattack.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberculture — a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the Internet.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybernetical — of or relating to cybernetics
- cyberreality — A reality created in cyberspace.
- cyberspastic — (humour) A person suffering from information overload while browsing the Internet or web. Compare webhead.
- cyberstalker — (Internet) A stalker who operates online.
- cybersurfers — Plural form of cybersurfer.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- dithyrambist — a writer or performer of dithyrambs
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drillability — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.