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11-letter words containing y, e, b

  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue myrtle — blueblossom.
  • blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
  • blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
  • bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
  • body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
  • borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
  • bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
  • bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
  • bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
  • burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • busy beaver — (theory)   (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
  • busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
  • butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
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