8-letter words containing y, e, t
- basketry — Basketry is baskets made by weaving together thin strips of materials such as wood.
- bay tree — laurel (def 1).
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
- bed tray — a meal tray with legs or supports at each end to fit across the lap of a person who is sitting up in bed.
- best boy — the assistant to the senior electrician or to the key grip in a film crew
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- beta ray — a stream of beta particles
- betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
- betrayed — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- betrayer — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- beyrouth — Beirut.
- biacetyl — a liquid with a strong, butter-like odour
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- by water — by ship or boat
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- cat-eyed — having eyes resembling those of a cat.
- catalyse — If something catalyses a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catalyze — If something catalyzes a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- catolyte — the part of the electrolyte that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell
- cattleya — any tropical American orchid of the genus Cattleya, cultivated for their purplish-pink or white showy flowers
- celerity — rapidity; swiftness; speed
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype
- cetology — the branch of zoology concerned with the study of whales (cetaceans)