7-letter words containing y
- ballboy — Alternative spelling of ball boy.
- balmily — In a balmy manner.
- baloney — If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong.
- balsamy — Like balsam, as of balsam.
- banally — devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.
- banbury — a town in central England, in N Oxfordshire: telecommunications, financial services. Pop: 43 867 (2001)
- banyans — Plural form of banyan.
- barbary — a historic name for a region of N Africa extending from W Egypt to the Atlantic and including the former Barbary States of Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
- barclay — Alexander. c. 1475–1552, English poet. His works include The Ship of Fools (1509) and Eclogues (c. 1513–14)
- barkley — Alben William [al-buh n] /ˈæl bən/ (Show IPA), 1877–1956, vice president of the U.S. 1949–53.
- barnaby — a masculine name
- barneys — Plural form of barney.
- baryons — Plural form of baryon.
- barytes — a colourless or white mineral consisting of barium sulphate in orthorhombic crystalline form, occurring in sedimentary rocks and with sulphide ores: a source of barium. Formula: BaSO4
- baryton — a bass viol with sympathetic strings as well as its six main strings
- basally — In a basal manner.
- basicly — Misspelling of basically.
- bat boy — a boy or young man who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- bat ray — batfish (def 2).
- bat yam — a city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in W central Israel, S of Tel Aviv.
- bat-yam — city in W Israel, on the Mediterranean, near Tel Aviv: pop. 142,000
- batboys — Plural form of batboy.
- bathyal — denoting or relating to an ocean depth of between 200 and 2000 metres (about 100 and 1000 fathoms), corresponding to the continental slope
- battery — Batteries are small devices that provide the power for electrical items such as radios and children's toys.
- bawdily — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bay ice — smooth sea ice formed in the sheltered waters of an arctic or antarctic bay.
- bay oil — a yellow essential oil distilled from the leaves of the tropical American bay, Pimenta racemosa, used in the manufacture of perfumes and bay rum.
- bay rum — an aromatic liquid, used in medicines and cosmetics, originally obtained by distilling the leaves of the bayberry tree (Pimenta racemosa) with rum: now also synthesized from alcohol, water, and various oils
- bayamon — a city in NE central Puerto Rico, south of San Juan. Pop: 224 915 (2003 est)
- bayelsa — a state of Nigeria, on the Niger river delta on the Gulf of Guinea. Capital: Yenagoa. Pop: 1 703 358 (2006). Area: 10 773 sq km (4159 sq miles)
- bayliss — Sir William Maddock [mad-uh k] /ˈmæd ək/ (Show IPA), 1860–1924, English physiologist: codiscoverer of secretin.
- bayonet — A bayonet is a long, sharp blade that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
- bayonne — a port in SW France: a commercial centre for the Basque region. Pop: 45 636 (2006)
- bayside — On or near the shore of a bay.
- baytown — city in SE Tex., on Galveston Bay, near Houston: pop. 66,000
- baywood — the light soft wood of a tropical American mahogany tree, Swietenia macrophylla, of the bay region of SE Mexico
- beadeye — stonecat.
- beadily — (of a look) in an avaricious or penetrating manner.
- beamily — in a beaming manner
- beanery — a cheap restaurant
- beastly — If you describe something as beastly, you mean that it is very unpleasant.
- beatify — When the Catholic church beatifies someone who is dead, it declares officially that they were a holy person, usually as the first step towards making them a saint.
- beavery — a place in which beavers may be kept
- beckley — a city in SW West Virginia.
- bedirty — to make (thoroughly) dirty
- bee fly — any hairy beelike nectar-eating dipterous fly of the family Bombyliidae, whose larvae are parasitic on those of bees and related insects
- beetfly — a muscid fly, Pegomyia hyoscyami: a common pest of beets and mangel-wurzels
- beggary — extreme poverty or need
- belayed — Nautical. to fasten (a rope) by winding around a pin or short rod inserted in a holder so that both ends of the rod are clear.
- belayer — a person who controls the safety rope for a climber