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11-letter words containing b, t, y

  • barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
  • basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
  • basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
  • battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
  • be my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
  • beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • beautifully — in a beautiful manner
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
  • beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
  • beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
  • befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
  • belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • bellybutton — the navel
  • belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
  • benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
  • biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • binary data — binary file
  • binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
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