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17-letter words containing b, e, t, i

  • furbish lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
  • get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • get to first base — Baseball. the first in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate. the position of the player covering the area of the infield near first base.
  • give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • glass box testing — white box testing
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • haemoglobinometer — an instrument used to determine the haemoglobin content of blood
  • haemoglobinopathy — (medicine) Any of a group of inherited disorders in which haemoglobin does not function properly.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • honorable mention — a citation conferred on a contestant, exhibit, etc., having exceptional merit though not winning a top honor or prize.
  • hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
  • i can't be fagged — I can't be bothered
  • iambic pentameter — a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs
  • imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • in the public eye — featured prominently in the media
  • inalienable right — right that cannot be taken away
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
  • indefinite number — a variable or unspecified number.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
  • inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • intangible assets — intellectual property, etc.
  • inter-convertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
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