8-letter words that end in y
- big city — The big city is used to refer to a large city which seems attractive to someone because they think there are many exciting things to do there, and many opportunities to earn a lot of money.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- bihourly — occurring every two hours
- bilberry — A bilberry is a small, round, dark-blue fruit that grows on bushes in northern Europe.
- bill joy — William Joy
- billyboy — a type of river barge
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- bioassay — a method of determining the concentration, activity, or effect of a change to substance by testing its effect on a living organism and comparing this with the activity of an agreed standard
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- bioscopy — examination of a body to determine whether it is alive
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- biscuity — tasting or smelling of biscuit
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- biweekly — A biweekly event or publication happens or appears once every two weeks.
- biyearly — every two years; biennial or biennially
- blackfly — a black aphid, Aphis fabae, that infests beans, sugar beet, and other plants
- bladdery — like a bladder
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blazonry — the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
- blearily — (of the eyes or sight) blurred or dimmed, as from sleep or weariness.
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- bloodily — in a bloody manner
- bloomery — a place in which malleable iron is produced directly from iron ore
- blousily — in the manner of a blouse
- blow fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
- blow-dry — If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style.
- blow-fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
- blubbery — of, containing, or like blubber; fat
- blue jay — a common, crested North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata) with a blue upper body and head
- blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- blurrily — in a blurry manner
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- boğazköy — a village in central Asia Minor: site of the ancient Hittite capital
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- bogotify — (jargon) /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified. See also bogosity.
- bok choy — a Chinese plant, Brassica chinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has edible stalks and leaves
- bomb bay — a part of military aircraft where the bombs are stored
- bone dry — If you say that something is bone dry, you are emphasizing that it is very dry indeed.
- bone-dry — very dry.
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- boot boy — a member of a gang of hooligans who usually wear heavy boots