8-letter words containing b, e
- binaries — binary file
- bindable — capable of being tied by a rope
- bindweed — Bindweed is a wild plant that winds itself around other plants and makes it difficult for them to grow.
- bingeing — a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, etc.; spree.
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- biocycle — the cycling of chemicals through the biosphere
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- biopsied — the removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body.
- bioscope — a kind of early film projector
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdfeed — food for birds
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
- birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
- birdseed — Birdseed is seeds that you give to birds as food.
- birdseye — Clarence1886-1956; U.S. inventor of methods of quick-freezing foods
- birkbeck — George. 1776–1841, British educationalist, who helped to establish vocational training for working men: founder and first president of the London Mechanics Institute (1824), which later became Birkbeck College
- birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- biserial — in two rows
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- bistable — having two stable states
- bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
- bitewing — a dental X-ray film
- bittered — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- biunique — relating to a one-to-one correspondence
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- biweekly — A biweekly event or publication happens or appears once every two weeks.
- biyearly — every two years; biennial or biennially
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- bladdery — like a bladder
- bladelet — a small, blade-shaped, sometimes retouched piece of stone used as the cutting edge of a weapon or tool by late Stone Age peoples.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- blamable — that deserves blame; culpable
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.