11-letter words containing d, y, e
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- 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.
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- breadthways — from side to side
- bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
- buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
- by order of — according to the command of
- by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- canary seed — birdseed.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- carry trade — a speculative transaction in which a trader buys the currency of a country with a high rate of interest and sells the currency of a country with a low rate of interest
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- city editor — The city editor of a newspaper is the editor who is in charge of local news.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- coadjacency — the state of two or more things being adjacent in experience or thought
- code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
- coincidency — a coincident state