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9-letter words containing a, b, i

  • birdbrain — a foolish or unintelligent person
  • birdwatch — to watch birds
  • birlieman — a judge dealing with local law
  • birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
  • birthmark — A birthmark is a mark on someone's skin that has been there since they were born.
  • birthname — a name given at birth
  • birthrate — the number of births per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
  • biseriate — (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
  • biserrate — (of leaf margins, etc) having serrations that are themselves serrate
  • bismillah — the words which preface all except one of the surahs of the Koran, used by Muslims as a blessing before eating or some other action
  • bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
  • bisulcate — marked by two grooves
  • bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
  • bit decay — bit rot
  • bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
  • bit plane — (graphics)   (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
  • bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
  • bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
  • biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
  • bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
  • bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically
  • bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
  • bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
  • bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts
  • bivariate — (of a distribution) involving two random variables, not necessarily independent of one another
  • bizarrely — markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: bizarre clothing; bizarre behavior. Synonyms: weird, freakish, grotesque; fantastic; unusual, strange, odd.
  • black ice — Black ice is a thin, transparent layer of ice on a road or path that is very difficult to see.
  • black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
  • black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
  • black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
  • blackbird — A blackbird is a common European bird. The male has black feathers and a yellow beak, and the female has brown feathers.
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
  • blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
  • bladelike — resembling a blade
  • blazingly — in a blazing manner
  • bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
  • blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
  • blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
  • blizzardy — characterized by blizzards, or resembling a blizzard
  • blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
  • boa vista — a town in N Brazil, capital of the state of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)
  • boardlike — resembling a board
  • boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
  • boat ride — a ride in a boat
  • boat tail — a body style in which the rear end of the vehicle tapers to a point or a cone.
  • boat trip — a trip in a boat
  • boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
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