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12-letter words containing b, a, n

  • bernese alps — a mountain range in SW Switzerland, the N central part of the Alps. Highest peak: Finsteraarhorn, 4274 m (14 022 ft)
  • bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
  • bernina pass — a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • betacarotene — the most important form of the plant pigment carotene, which occurs in milk, vegetables, and other foods and, when eaten by man and animals, is converted in the body to vitamin A
  • betanaphthol — a colorless, crystalline isomer of naphthol, C10H8O, used as an antiseptic and parasiticide
  • betweenbrain — the posterior part of the forebrain
  • beurre blanc — an emulsion of cold butter in a white wine or vinegar and shallot reduction
  • beurre manie — butterpaste.
  • beyond reach — inaccessible
  • bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • bible banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
  • bicentennial — A bicentennial is the same as a bicentenary.
  • bid defiance — to resist boldly
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • bifunctional — having two functions
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • bill and coo — the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
  • binary color — secondary color.
  • binary digit — either of the two digits 0 or 1, used in binary notation
  • binge eating — the practice of eating excessive amounts of food over a short period of time
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • binocularity — binocular characteristics
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
  • bioinorganic — pertaining to the biological activity of metal complexes and nonmetal compounds based on elements other than carbon (contrasted with bioorganic).
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • biotechnical — relating to biotechnology
  • bioturbation — the stirring of sediment by organisms
  • biparentally — from a biparental point of view
  • bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
  • bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
  • bird-brained — silly; stupid
  • birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
  • birth parent — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
  • biting mania — an epidemic in which people have a compulsion to bite others, as in 15th-century Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
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