11-letter words containing y, e, n, a
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- 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
- 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.
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- 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
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- 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.
- blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
- 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
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- casey jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
- chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
- chancellery — A chancellery is the building where a chancellor has his offices.
- chancellory — Alternative spelling of chancellery.
- changefully — In a changeful manner.
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.