11-letter words containing l, y
- bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- 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
- 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.
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
- bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
- 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.
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
- calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calefactory — giving warmth
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calorically — in a caloric manner
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- 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
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
- canada lynx — a North American lynx (Lynx lynx canadensis) with tufted ears and a stubby tail
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.