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11-letter words containing n, a, y

  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
  • benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binary data — binary file
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
  • binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
  • binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
  • botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • bunya-bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
  • 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
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