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9-letter words containing o, y, l

  • bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
  • blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
  • blue onyx — jasper stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
  • body belt — a wide belt used to support the back, or to provide protection or warmth
  • body blow — A body blow is something that causes great disappointment and difficulty to someone who is trying to achieve something.
  • body cell — somatic cell.
  • body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
  • body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
  • body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
  • body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
  • bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
  • boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
  • boilingly — in a boiling manner
  • bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
  • bollywood — the Indian film industry
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
  • boundedly — having bounds or limits.
  • brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
  • bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
  • bully-boy — If you describe a man as a bully-boy, you disapprove of him because he is rough and aggressive.
  • bully-off — a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
  • bumpology — phrenology
  • buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
  • busy-loop — tight loop
  • byelostok — a city in E Poland.
  • cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
  • calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
  • caliology — the study of birds' nests
  • callosity — hardheartedness
  • callously — made hard; hardened.
  • calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
  • carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
  • cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
  • celiotomy — laparotomy (def 2).
  • cell body — the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
  • ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
  • ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
  • charcoaly — resembling charcoal
  • chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
  • chirology — Palm reading.
  • chocolaty — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
  • chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
  • cholecyst — the gallbladder
  • chorology — the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
  • clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
  • claymores — Plural form of claymore.
  • claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
  • claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
  • climatory — Having to do with climate.
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