12-letter words containing by
- abyssal zone — the ecological zone along the deep ocean floor between the bathyal and hadal zones
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- baby brother — a younger brother
- baby carrier — a kind of sling or rucksack used to carry small babies either on one's chest or one's back
- baby monitor — a device that transmits sounds made by a baby to another room
- baby's-tears — a mosslike plant, Soleirolia (or Helxine) soleirolii, of the nettle family, native to Corsica and Sardinia, having small, roundish leaves and minute flowers.
- baby-bouncer — a seat on springs suspended from a door frame, etc, in which a baby may be placed for exercise
- blow by blow — precisely detailed; describing every minute detail and step: a blow-by-blow account of the tennis match; a blow-by-blow report on the wedding ceremony.
- blow-by-blow — A blow-by-blow account of an event describes every stage of it in great detail.
- boarder baby — an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- by any means — in any way possible; at all; somehow
- by deed poll — In Britain, if you change your name by deed poll, you change it officially and legally.
- by my certie — assuredly
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by the balls — so as to be rendered powerless
- by the dozen — in large quantities
- by the score — If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
- call-by-name — (reduction) (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
- call-by-need — (reduction) A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
- case-by-case — considering each case individually rather than considering several cases together as a whole
- donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- four-by-four — a four-wheeled automotive vehicle having four-wheel drive.
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- hour by hour — each hour
- hypabyssally — in a hypabyssal manner
- inch by inch — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- kiss goodbye — to kiss in taking leave
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- labyrinthian — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- labyrinthine — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- mean well by — to have good intentions or friendly, helpful feelings toward
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