11-letter words containing y, o
- 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
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- 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
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- bellybutton — the navel
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- 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.
- berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliophily — the love of books
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- 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
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- 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.
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- bloody flux — dysentery.