9-letter words containing s, y, a
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- bestially — of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- 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
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- callosity — hardheartedness
- callously — made hard; hardened.
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- calyculus — a small, cuplike part, as a taste bud, or a cuplike depression, as in a coral skeleton
- camstairy — perverse or unruly
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- carryalls — Plural form of carryall.
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- 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
- casco bay — bay on the SW coast of Maine, on which Portland is located
- 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
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat's-eye — any of a group of gemstones, esp a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl, that reflect a streak of light when cut in a rounded unfaceted shape
- cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.