10-letter words containing y, e, s
- asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
- assertedly — in a maintained but uncorroborated manner
- assythment — the recompense or redress made for wrongs or damage committed
- astrocytes — Plural form of astrocyte.
- astrometry — the branch of astronomy concerned with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- asymptotes — Plural form of asymptote.
- asynartete — a poem or stanza that contains two different types of metre
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- azygospore — a thick-walled spore produced by parthenogenesis in certain algae and fungi
- baby blues — depression suffered after childbirth
- baby jesus — Jesus as a baby, esp in Nativity scenes
- babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- barysphere — centrosphere (def 2).
- baselessly — In a baseless way.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay street — the financial centre of Toronto, in which Canada's largest stock exchange is situated
- bayberries — Plural form of bayberry.
- bcs theory — Physics. a general quantum theory of superconductivity that describes many properties of superconducting materials.
- beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bird's-eye — seen or photographed from high above
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- 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.