10-letter words containing o, y
- becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
- belly flop — a dive into water in which the body lands horizontally
- belly-flop — to do a belly flop, as in diving or sledding.
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bibliology — the study of Biblical literature
- bibliopegy — the art of binding books
- bibliopoly — a bookseller, especially a dealer in rare or used books.
- billy goat — A billy goat is a male goat.
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- biomimicry — the mimicking of life using imitation biological systems
- bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
- biophysics — the physics of biological processes and the application of methods used in physics to biology
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- biopsychic — of, relating to, or comprising psychological and biological phenomena.
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biotically — from a biotic point of view
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bitonality — the quality of two musical keys being played simultaneously
- black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blood lily — any of various bulbous plants of the genus Haemanthus, native to Africa, having clusters of red or white flowers.
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
- blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
- bobbysocks — ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- body count — the number of people killed
- body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
- body forth — to give shape or form to
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body odour — Body odour is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body.