11-letter words that end in y
- azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- b1 security — Orange Book
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
- balmorality — an idealization of Scottish traditions and culture
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- bandy-bandy — a small Australian elapid snake, Vermicella annulata, ringed with black and yellow
- bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
- banteringly — in a bantering fashion
- baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
- baranavichy — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- berzerkeley — (humour) /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
- beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
- besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliophily — the love of books
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable