10-letter words containing y, a, t, e
- bay antler — the second branch from the base of a deer's horn
- bay street — the financial centre of Toronto, in which Canada's largest stock exchange is situated
- bay wreath — (In Greek and Roman times) a wreath of laurel leaves, worn by a victor
- bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
- bayonetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- calyculate — having a calycule
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- charactery — the use of symbols to express thoughts
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum