11-letter words containing u, y
- audiotypist — a typist trained to type from a dictating machine
- auricularly — In an auricular manner.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autoantonym — (rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autosomally — in the manner of an autosome
- avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
- azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- b1 security — Orange Book
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- be my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellybutton — the navel
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- bloody flux — dysentery.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.