11-letter words containing y, n
- barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
- 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
- bellybutton — the navel
- 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
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- 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.
- benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
- berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
- beryl green — a light bluish green.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
- besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- 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 data — binary file
- 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 form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- blightingly — in a blighting manner
- 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.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blood money — If someone makes a payment of blood money to the family of someone who has been killed, they pay that person's family a sum of money as compensation.