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11-letter words containing y, e, b

  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • 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.
  • belly-helve — a triphammer in which the cams act at a point along the helve, partway between the fulcrum and the head.
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • bellybutton — the navel
  • belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
  • 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
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • 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.
  • benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • beryl green — a light bluish green.
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
  • berzerkeley — (humour)   /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
  • beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
  • besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
  • biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • 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.
  • 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 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 tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
  • bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
  • biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
  • biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
  • bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
  • bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
  • bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
  • bleary-eyed — with eyes blurred, as with old age or after waking
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
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