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11-letter words containing y, a, t

  • beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
  • beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
  • beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
  • benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • binary data — binary file
  • binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
  • binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
  • bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
  • botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
  • bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
  • bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
  • byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
  • byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
  • cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
  • cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
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