12-letter words containing y, a, r, b
- battle royal — a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- bay rum tree — a tropical American myrtaceous tree, Pimenta racemosa, that yields an oil used in making bay rum
- bay-head bar — a sand bar at the head of a bay.
- bearded lady — a woman with a beard, esp in a circus or freakshow
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- beauty quark — bottom quark
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- bedraggledly — In a bedraggled manner.
- behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
- belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
- benzoapyrene — a carcinogenic chemical in tobacco smoke
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
- bibliography — A bibliography is a list of books on a particular subject.
- bicarpellary — (of an ovary) having two carpels
- bicycle race — cycling (def 2).
- bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
- binary color — secondary color.
- binary digit — either of the two digits 0 or 1, used in binary notation
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
- biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
- biparentally — from a biparental point of view
- birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
- birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
- birthday boy — the boy or man whose birthday is being celebrated
- biscay green — a yellowish green.
- black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
- black cherry — a tree of the species Prunus serotina, having a small fleshy rounded edible fruit containing a hard stone
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
- bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- brachycranic — having a cranial index of 81.0–85.4.
- brachygraphy — shorthand; stenography
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brahmacharya — the stage of life of the student, entailing study of the Vedas and complete celibacy, usually lasting for twelve years.