8-letter words containing a, b, y
- boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bradbury — Sir Malcolm (Stanley). 1932–2000, British novelist and critic. His novels include The History Man (1975), Rates of Exchange (1983), Cuts (1988), and Doctor Criminale (1992)
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bull bay — evergreen magnolia.
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- by water — by ship or boat
- by-catch — unwanted fish and other sea animals caught in a fishing net along with the desired kind of fish
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byre-man — a man who raises or tends cows.
- byrlakin — a mild oath
- cabbagey — resembling a cabbage
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae
- carbamyl — a radical, NH2CO, that is derived from carbamic acid
- carbaryl — an organic compound of the carbamate group: used as an insecticide, esp to treat head lice
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- case bay — (in a roof or floor) the section between two principals.
- celibacy — Celibacy is the state of being celibate.
- chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
- chambray — a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc, with white weft and a coloured warp
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour