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11-letter words containing y, a, r, b, o

  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • 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.
  • carbocyclic — (of a chemical compound) containing a closed ring of carbon atoms
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
  • carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
  • carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
  • celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
  • chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • combinatory — combinative
  • comfortably — If you do something comfortably, you do it easily.
  • concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
  • conformably — With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
  • corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
  • crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
  • cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • day boarder — a child attending a boarding school who has meals at the school but sleeps at home
  • day laborer — an unskilled worker paid by the day
  • destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
  • elaboratory — (obsolete) A laboratory.
  • embryoblast — A mass of cells at the embryonic pole of the blastocyst, that develops to form the embryo.
  • embryonated — Containing an embryo.
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
  • erythorbate — erythorbic acid; a food additive used as an antioxidant
  • exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
  • foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
  • formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
  • fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
  • hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
  • hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
  • hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • hydrophobia — rabies.
  • hyperboreal — Hyperborean.
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