11-letter words containing e, y, s
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
- 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-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.
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- c1 security — Orange Book
- c2 security — Orange Book
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- caressively — caressingly
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- case system — a system followed by some languages, in which a set of grammatical categories, sometimes marked by inflection, indicates the relation of the noun, adjective, or pronoun to other words in the sentence
- casey jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- causelessly — in a manner without cause or reason
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- ceaselessly — without stop or pause; unending; incessant.
- celery salt — a seasoning made of salt and ground celery seed
- celestially — pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body.
- ceylon moss — a red East Indian seaweed, Gracilaria lichenoides, from which agar is made
- charmlessly — in a charmless manner