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