11-letter words containing y, e, r, s
- berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
- berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- 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.
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- 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.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- c1 security — Orange Book
- c2 security — Orange Book
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- caressively — caressingly
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- celery salt — a seasoning made of salt and ground celery seed
- charmlessly — in a charmless manner
- cheerlessly — In a cheerless manner.
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chessplayer — a player of chess
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysalises — Plural form of chrysalis.
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- chrysophyte — any of the golden alga species
- chrysoprase — an apple-green variety of chalcedony: a gemstone
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- colorlessly — In a colorless manner.
- comstockery — immoderate censorship on grounds of immorality