11-letter words containing e, y, s
- astringency — An astringent taste.
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- asynartetic — having or containing two different types of metre
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- b1 security — Orange Book
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- 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.
- 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
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- 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
- 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 set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- be my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- 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.
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
- berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
- berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
- beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
- besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- 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.
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other