9-letter words containing y, e, b
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- by the by — incidentally
- by weight — as determined by weighing
- by-bidder — a bidder at an auction who bids up the price of an item for the benefit of a seller
- by-street — a side street or a private or obscure street; byway.
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- byte-code — (file format, software) A binary file containing an executable program, consisting of a sequence of (op code, data) pairs. Byte-code op codes are most often fixed size bit patterns, but can be variable size. The data portion consists of zero or more bits whose format typically depends on the op code. A byte-code program is interpreted by a byte-code interpreter. The advantage of this technique compared with outputing machine code for some particular processor is that the same byte-code can be executed on any processor on which the byte-code interpreter runs. The byte-code may be compiled to machine code ("native code") for speed of execution but this usually requires significantly greater effort for each new taraget architecture than simply porting the interpreter. For example, Java is compiled to byte-code which runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
- bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- carryable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- celebrity — A celebrity is someone who is famous, especially in areas of entertainment such as films, music, writing, or sport.
- cell body — the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
- chalybean — of or relating to the Chalybes, an ancient tribe of central Asia noted for their skill with iron and steel
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- copybroke — (security) /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
- corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
- cover boy — an attractive young man whose picture is featured on a magazine cover.
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- credibley — Misspelling of credibly.
- crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybercity — A city with a strong basis in information technology.
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.