10-letter words containing a, b, i, n
- bean aphid — a small, black aphid, Aphis fabae, often found on beans and related plants.
- beanie key — feature key
- beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bee martin — kingbird.
- behindhand — If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.
- bellarmine — Saint Robert. 1542–1621, Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal; an important influence during the Counter-Reformation
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bellinzona — a town in SE central Switzerland, capital of Ticino canton. Pop: 16 463 (2000)
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- beni hasan — a village in central Egypt, on the Nile, with cliff-cut tombs dating from 2000 bc
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- benzocaine — a white crystalline ester used as a local anaesthetic; ethyl para-aminobenzoate. Formula: C9H11NO2
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- bering sea — a part of the N Pacific Ocean, between NE Siberia and Alaska. Area: about 2 275 000 sq km (878 000 sq miles)
- berkeleian — denoting or relating to the philosophy of George Berkeley
- bernardine — a monk of one of the reformed and stricter branches of the Cistercian order
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- biannually — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- biennially — happening every two years: biennial games.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big-endian — 1. (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2. (networking, standard) A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. [email protected]). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. [email protected]) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
- bikini wax — a treatment to remove hair from the bikini line with hot wax
- bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- binational — involving two nations
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
- biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- biparental — from two parents
- bipartisan — Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups.