12-letter words containing l, y
- black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- bleed sb dry — If someone is being bled dry or is being bled white, all of their money or other resources are gradually being taken away from them.
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
- blood supply — the flow of blood to different parts of the body
- blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
- bloodthirsty — Bloodthirsty people are eager to use violence or display a strong interest in violent things. You can also use bloodthirsty to refer to very violent situations.
- bloody shirt — something, as a political issue or historical event, that can be used to stir up outrage, partisan support, etc.
- blow by blow — precisely detailed; describing every minute detail and step: a blow-by-blow account of the tennis match; a blow-by-blow report on the wedding ceremony.
- blow-by-blow — A blow-by-blow account of an event describes every stage of it in great detail.
- blue succory — a composite garden plant, Catananche caerulea, of southern Europe, having very hairy leaves and blue flower heads, used by the ancients as a love potion.
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
- body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
- bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- 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.
- bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
- 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.
- breathlessly — without breath or breathing with difficulty; gasping; panting: We were breathless after the steep climb.
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- brushability — the quality of being brushable
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- bully pulpit — If someone in a prominent job or position publicly expresses their opinions about a particular subject, you can say that they are using their job or position as a bully pulpit.
- 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
- bus topology — bus
- 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
- 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 deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.