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11-letter words containing b, i, g, t

  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
  • belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
  • benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • benightment — the state of being in physical, moral, or intellectual darkness
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • besiegement — the state of being besieged
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • betting tax — a tax on gambling
  • big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
  • big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
  • big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
  • bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
  • biologistic — relating to biologism
  • bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
  • birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
  • bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
  • bit-robbing — in-band signalling
  • black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
  • blightingly — in a blighting manner
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
  • blood guilt — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bloomington — a city in central Indiana: seat of the University of Indiana (1820). Pop: 70 642 (2003 est)
  • bogtrotting — the act of roaming over boggy areas, or living in boggy areas
  • book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
  • bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • braggartism — the activity of a braggart
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
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