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12-letter words containing a, b, e, i, g

  • bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • bible banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • biflagellate — having two flagella
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • binge eating — the practice of eating excessive amounts of food over a short period of time
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • biogeography — the branch of biology concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
  • blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • boating lake — a lake in a park where rowing boats can be hired
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • breakdancing — a type of vigorous dance
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
  • cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
  • deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
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