11-letter words containing e, y, a
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- attentively — while giving attention; observantly: Please listen attentively.
- attentivity — The quality of being attentive; attentiveness.
- attorneydom — the state or power of being an attorney
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- attuitively — in an attuitive manner
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- away defeat — a game played and lost at an opponent's ground
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- baby boomer — A baby boomer is someone who was born during a baby boom, especially during the years after the end of the Second World War.
- baby broker — an adoption service, esp on the internet
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-boomer — a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- baby-walker — a light frame on casters or wheels to help a baby learn to walk
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- baddeleyite — a mineral consisting largely of zirconium dioxide: a source of zirconium. Formula: ZrO2
- baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- 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)
- barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- barley beer — an alcoholic drink brewed from barley malt, sugar, hops, and water and fermented with yeast
- barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
- barley-bree — liquor, malt liquor, or the like, especially whiskey.
- barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- 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
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.