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11-letter words containing d, e, b, y

  • gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
  • hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
  • hobbledehoy — an awkward, ungainly youth.
  • honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
  • hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
  • hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
  • immedicably — In an immedicable way; incurably.
  • immune body — antibody
  • indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
  • inedibility — not edible; unfit to be eaten.
  • irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
  • jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
  • ketone body — any of three compounds, acetoacetic acid, beta-hydroxybutyric acid, or acetone, that are intermediate in the metabolism of fatty acids and that are found in abnormal quantities in the blood and urine during certain pathological conditions, as diabetes mellitus.
  • keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
  • keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
  • kidney bean — a common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, cultivated in many varieties for its edible seeds and pods.
  • layer board — lear board.
  • lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
  • lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
  • molybdenite — a soft, graphitelike mineral, molybdenum sulfide, MoS 2 , occurring in foliated masses or scales: the principal ore of molybdenum.
  • molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
  • mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • oxygen debt — the body's oxygen deficiency resulting from strenuous physical activity.
  • parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
  • perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peter debye — Peter Joseph Wilhelm [pey-tuh r yoh-sef vil-helm] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈyoʊ sɛf ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.
  • pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
  • predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
  • premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
  • readability — Also, readableness. the state or quality of being readable.
  • redhibitory — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
  • ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
  • subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
  • sunday best — Sunday clothes.
  • thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • timber yard — A timber yard is a place where timber is stored and sold.
  • toddy table — a small stand of the 18th century, used for holding drinks.
  • unabashedly — not ashamed, disconcerted, or apologetic; boldly certain of one's position.
  • unbudgeably — in an unbudgeable or immovable fashion
  • undebatably — in an undebatable manner
  • undelayable — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
  • undoubtedly — not called in question; accepted as beyond doubt; undisputed.
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