8-letter words containing a, b, s, i
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beasties — Plural form of beastie.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- biasness — an indirectness in speech or conduct
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bimbashi — a Turkish military official
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- bioassay — a method of determining the concentration, activity, or effect of a change to substance by testing its effect on a living organism and comparing this with the activity of an agreed standard
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biphasic — having two phases
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- biserial — in two rows
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- bistable — having two stable states
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- bleakish — quite pale
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.