10-letter words containing y, e, a
- beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-land — (of an aviator) to land (an aircraft) directly on the fuselage, as because of defective landing gear.
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- 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.
- biennially — happening every two years: biennial games.
- 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
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bon voyage — You say 'bon voyage' to someone who is going on a journey, as a way of saying goodbye and wishing them good luck.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- breadberry — bread soaked in water or milk
- break away — If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- 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.
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- 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.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- 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.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- call money — money loaned by banks and recallable on demand
- calyculate — having a calycule