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10-letter words containing y, e, b

  • blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
  • blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
  • blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
  • 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 poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
  • blue wavey — See under wavey.
  • bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
  • bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
  • body louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
  • bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
  • bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
  • bog myrtle — sweet gale.
  • bogey hole — a natural pool used for swimming
  • bogey-hole — a swimming hole.
  • 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
  • boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
  • bovver boy — a rowdy youth
  • boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
  • 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.
  • brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
  • brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
  • 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
  • buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
  • bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
  • bully beef — tinned corned beef
  • bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
  • bumpy ride — experience: difficult
  • bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
  • buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
  • 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 degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
  • by george! — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
  • by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
  • by oneselfbe oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
  • by request — in accordance with someone's desire
  • by the bye — incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
  • by the lee — so that the wind is blowing on the wrong side of the sail
  • 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-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
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