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12-letter words containing b, e, n, i, s

  • beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
  • best in show — an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • 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
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • bichon frise — a small white poodle-like dog of European origin, with a silky, loosely curling coat
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
  • 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
  • bindle stiff — a hobo.
  • 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
  • bioscientist — any science that deals with the biological aspects of living organisms.
  • biosynthesis — the formation of complex compounds from simple substances by living organisms
  • biosynthetic — of, relating to, or characterized by biosynthesis, the formation of chemical compounds by a living organism, or a laboratory process modeled after these reactions in living organisms.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
  • 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.
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • biuniqueness — the quality of a one-to-one correspondence
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
  • blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
  • blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • bognor regis — a resort in S England, in West Sussex on the English Channel: electronics industries. Regis was added to the name after King George V's convalescence there in 1929. Pop: 62 141 (2001)
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
  • brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
  • brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
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