12-letter words containing e, y
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- book society — book club.
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breathe easy — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bumble-puppy — a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- by any means — in any way possible; at all; somehow
- by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
- by my certie — assuredly
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by the dozen — in large quantities
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.