11-letter words containing a, b, y, s
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- 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.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- 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
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- castability — the ability of materials to set in a mould when mixed with water and a bonding agent
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)