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11-letter words containing y, a

  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • bay village — a city in N central Ohio.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
  • beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
  • beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • beautifully — in a beautiful manner
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • 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.
  • beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
  • belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
  • belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
  • 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
  • beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
  • 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
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp 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
  • bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binary data — binary file
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
  • 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
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
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