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11-letter words containing o, y, l

  • barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • bellybutton — the navel
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bibliophily — the love of books
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
  • blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
  • bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bloody flux — dysentery.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
  • bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
  • 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
  • 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.
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