11-letter words containing y, a, r, b
- bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
- 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 packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- 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
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
- bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
- brandy mint — peppermint.
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
- bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
- brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
- 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
- bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- 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.
- 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.
- cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- 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