11-letter words containing a, b, i, n, t
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
- bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- binary data — binary file
- 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
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bit pattern — (data) A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots