11-letter words containing u, y
- bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- bosom buddy — close friend
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
- buddy buddy — If one person is buddy buddy with another, they are very close friends.
- buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
- buddy-buddy — very friendly; intimate.
- bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- bunya-bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- c1 security — Orange Book
- c2 security — Orange Book
- calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- cattywampus — catawampus
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- causelessly — in a manner without cause or reason
- caustically — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.