10-letter words containing y, e, l, t
- belly girt — girth (def 2).
- belly tank — a fuel tank in the belly of a plane
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
- 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 the lee — so that the wind is blowing on the wrong side of the sail
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- calyculate — having a calycule
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- chessylite — the blue mineral azurite or copper carbonate
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- city clerk — a city official who maintains public records and vital statistics, issues licenses, etc.
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- coeliotomy — (surgery) A surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- cometology — the study of comets
- completely — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completory — serving the purpose of completing
- complexity — Complexity is the state of having many different parts connected or related to each other in a complicated way.
- concretely — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- contritely — caused by or showing sincere remorse.
- costlessly — in a costless manner