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11-letter words containing a, b, o, i

  • baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
  • barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
  • barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
  • bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
  • baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • baronetical — pertaining to baronets
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
  • basic cobol — (language)   A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • 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.
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
  • bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
  • batological — relating to the study of brambles
  • battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
  • battologize — to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
  • belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
  • biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
  • bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
  • bibliolater — someone who reveres 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
  • bibliomania — extreme fondness for books
  • bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
  • bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
  • bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • bicorporate — having two bodies
  • bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
  • billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
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