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12-letter words containing o, y, a

  • black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
  • bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
  • body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
  • body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
  • bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • 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.
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
  • break of day — dawn; daybreak.
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • call of duty — responsibilities
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
  • canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
  • cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
  • carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
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