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12-letter words containing b, e, t, a, i

  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
  • basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
  • basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
  • bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
  • bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
  • bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
  • bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
  • battery acid — acid used in batteries, esp car batteries
  • battery fire — the firing of a battery of weapons
  • batting cage — a screen with three sides and a top, in which batters practice: it keeps missed and fouled pitches within its enclosure
  • battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
  • beacon light — a light signal for shipping
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
  • bear-baiting — (formerly) an entertainment in which dogs attacked and enraged a chained bear
  • beat the air — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
  • beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
  • beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
  • beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • beefheartian — of or recalling the music of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, an avant-garde rock/blues band (1966–1982); incorporating strange rhythms, free jazz elements, bizarre lyrics, and growling vocals
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
  • below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
  • belt highway — beltway (def 1).
  • beneficiated — to treat (ore) to make more suitable for smelting.
  • bengal light — a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal
  • bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
  • beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
  • 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
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
  • betweenbrain — the posterior part of the forebrain
  • bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
  • biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
  • biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
  • bibliothecal — relating to a bibliotheca
  • bicentennial — A bicentennial is the same as a bicentenary.
  • bicollateral — (of a vascular bundle) having two phloem groups to the inside and outside, respectively, of the xylem
  • bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • biflagellate — having two flagella
  • biker jacket — a short, close-fitting leather jacket with zips and studs, often worn by motorcyclists
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • 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
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