9-letter words containing r, y, o
- body odor — Body odor is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body.
- body part — a part of a human body
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bodyboard — a surfboard that is shorter and blunter than the standard board and on which the surfer lies rather than stands
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- boothroyd — Betty. Baroness. born 1929, British politician; speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000)
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- boycotter — a person who boycotts
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- brondyron — a sword
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- by george — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-cot — carrier (sense 5)
- carry-out — food: take-away
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- charcoaly — resembling charcoal
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chirology — Palm reading.
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.