11-letter words containing o, y, s
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- bosom buddy — close friend
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- carson city — a city in W Nevada, capital of the state. Pop: 55 311 (2003 est)
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- casey jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- castigatory — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- ceylon moss — a red East Indian seaweed, Gracilaria lichenoides, from which agar is made
- chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chiloplasty — cheiloplasty.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrismatory — a small receptacle containing the three kinds of consecrated oil used in the sacraments
- christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ