7-letter words containing o, y
- bioplay — a play based on the life of a famous person, esp one giving a popular treatment
- biotype — a group of genetically identical plants within a species, produced by apomixis
- blaydon — an industrial town in NE England, in Gateshead unitary authority, Tyne and Wear. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- blotchy — Something that is blotchy has blotches on it.
- blow by — leakage of the air-fuel mixture or of combustion gases between a piston and the cylinder wall into the crankcase of an automobile.
- blow-by — the leakage of gas past the piston of an engine at maximum pressure
- blowfly — any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae
- bo juyi — Po Chü-i.
- bobbery — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- bobigny — a department in N France. 91 sq. mi. (236 sq. km). Capital: Bobigny.
- bobstay — a strong stay between a bowsprit and the stem of a vessel for holding down the bowsprit
- bockedy — (of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) unsteady
- bogyman — boogeyman
- boilery — a place where water is boiled in order to extract salt
- boloney — baloney
- bonynge — Richard. born 1930, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- bootery — a shop selling boots and shoes
- boozily — in a boozy manner
- bossboy — a Black African foreman of a gang of workers
- bossily — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- bostryx — a type of cymose inflorescence normally affecting all flowers on one side of the rachis
- bowyang — one of a pair of bowyangs
- boy toy — a young woman regarded as purposefully seeking to be sexually provocative to men
- boy-toy — Also, toy boy. a young man noted for his good looks and sexual prowess, especially one who maintains relationships with older, more powerful persons.
- boychik — (esp in Jewish usage) a term of endearment for a boy or young man
- boycott — If a country, group, or person boycotts a country, organization, or activity, they refuse to be involved with it in any way because they disapprove of it.
- boyhood — Boyhood is the period of a male person's life during which he is a boy.
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
- brodsky — Joseph, original name Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. 1940–96, US poet, born in the Soviet Union. His collections include The End of a Beautiful Era (1977). Nobel prize for literature 1987
- brokery — the business of a broker
- bromley — a borough of SE Greater London. Pop: 298 300 (2003 est). Area: 153 sq km (59 sq miles)
- broonzy — William Lee Conley, called Big Bill. 1893–1958, US blues singer and guitarist
- bryozoa — a phylum of invertebrates comprising about 4000 marine and freshwater species of bryozoans.
- brython — a Celt who speaks a Brythonic language
- bum boy — a person who assumes the passive role in anal intercourse
- buoyage — a system of buoys
- buoyant — If you are in a buoyant mood, you feel cheerful and behave in a lively way.
- buoying — Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- bus boy — A bus boy is someone whose job is to set or clear tables in a restaurant.
- buttony — like a button.
- buy off — If you say that a person or organization buys off another person or group, you are criticizing the fact that they are giving them something such as money so that they will not complain or cause trouble.
- buy out — If you buy someone out, you buy their share of something such as a company or piece of property that you previously owned together.
- buy-out — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- buycott — a type of protest aimed at a company or country with dubious ethical standards in which consumers buy the products of another company or country
- by jove — an exclamation of surprise or excitement
- by rote — by repetition; by heart (often in the phrase learn by rote)
- by-blow — a passing or incidental blow
- by-form — a subsidiary or variant form
- by-plot — subplot.
- by-road — a side road.