12-letter words containing y, e, b, o
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
- double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey badger — ratel.