9-letter words containing y, a
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- brinjarry — (in India) an itinerant grain and salt trader
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- buoy boat — a boat used in whaling for holding and towing the whales killed during a hunt.
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- by a hair — by a very slight margin, only just
- by a head — by the length of the animal's head, as in horse racing
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by and by — presently or eventually
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by way of — You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction.
- by-and-by — the future: to meet in the sweet by-and-by.
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- ca' canny — call “canny”; hence, go cautiously
- caa canny — to proceed cautiously; go slow
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- calculary — calculous
- caliology — the study of birds' nests
- callidity — cunning or slyness
- callosity — hardheartedness
- callously — made hard; hardened.
- calmingly — in a calming manner
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- calyculus — a small, cuplike part, as a taste bud, or a cuplike depression, as in a coral skeleton