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11-letter words containing e, a, t, r, y

  • baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
  • baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
  • babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
  • bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
  • band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • banyan-tree — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
  • bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
  • barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • 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
  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • 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.
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • calefactory — giving warmth
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
  • 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
  • caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
  • cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
  • celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
  • celery salt — a seasoning made of salt and ground celery seed
  • cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
  • cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
  • cerargyrite — a soft mineral, AgCl, that is an ore of silver; silver chloride
  • certifiably — capable of being certified.
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