10-letter words containing a, b, y, s
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
- consolably — In an consolable manner.
- crab's eye — rosary pea.
- cybercasts — Plural form of cybercast.
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- detestably — In a detestable manner.
- disability — lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- disyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to two syllables.
- disyllable — a word of two syllables.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- embayments — Plural form of embayment.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization
- expansibly — in an expansible manner
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- fabulously — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- graybeards — Plural form of graybeard.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hypabyssal — (of an igneous rock) intermediate in texture between coarse-grained intrusive rocks and fine-grained extrusive rocks.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- impassably — In an impassable manner.
- impassibly — In an impassible manner.
- inerasably — in an inerasable fashion
- infeasibly — In a manner that\u2019s not feasible.
- insatiably — not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- insociably — in an insociable manner
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jellybeans — Plural form of jellybean.
- jervis bay — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia, in Jervis Bay Territory on the coast of S New South Wales: regarded for some purposes as part of the Australian Capital Territory: site of the Royal Australian Naval College
- jollyboats — Plural form of jollyboat.