9-letter words containing y, a, r
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
- autolatry — the worship of oneself
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- auxiliary — An auxiliary is a person who is employed to assist other people in their work. Auxiliaries are often medical workers or members of the armed forces.
- averagely — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- avertedly — in an averted or offended manner
- awkwardly — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- aylesbury — a town in SE central England, administrative centre of Buckinghamshire. Pop: 69 021 (2001)
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- ayurvedic — Ayurvedic medicine is a type of complementary medicine, originally from India, that uses herbs and other natural treatments.
- azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
- b battery — the power source for the plate and screen-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- b bursary — the lower of two bursaries available for students entering university, polytechnic, etc
- babbittry — the attitude and behavior of a Babbitt.
- baboonery — uncouth or brutish behaviour
- baby farm — a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
- baby girl — a female baby
- babymaker — Somebody who gives birth to a baby.
- babyproof — made safe for babies to come into contact with
- bacillary — of, relating to, or caused by bacilli
- back yard — an area, usually paved, at the rear of a building
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- badassery — (slang) The behaviour or quality of a badass.
- baneberry — any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Actaea, esp A. spicata, which has small white flowers and red or white poisonous berries
- baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
- barbarity — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
- barebelly — a sheep with a defective growth of wool on its belly and legs.
- barnyards — Plural form of barnyard.
- barometry — the process of measuring atmospheric pressure.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- baroquely — in a baroque fashion
- barotropy — a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
- barr body — a structure found on the inside of the nuclear membrane of female cells that takes a dark stain and indicates by its presence the sex of the individual
- barreleye — any of the bathypelagic fishes of the family Opisthoproctidae, especially Macropinna microstoma, having telescoping eyes.
- barrymore — a US family of actors, esp Ethel (1879–1959), John (1882–1942), Lionel (1878–1954), and Drew (born 1975)
- base year — a year used as an index for some phenomenon measured in other years
- bastardly — of no value; worthless.
- bastardry — malicious or cruel behaviour
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- baybars i — 1223–77, sultan of Egypt and Syria (1260–77), of the Mameluke dynasty
- bead-ruby — a N temperate liliaceous plant with small white bell-shaped flowers and small red berries
- bearberry — a trailing evergreen ericaceous shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, with small pinkish-white flowers, red berries, and astringent leaves
- beardsley — Aubrey (Vincent). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- berdyansk — a city in S Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- berdyayev — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1874–1948, Russian philosopher. Although he was a Marxist, his Christian views led him to criticize Soviet communism and he was forced into exile (1922)