8-letter words containing b, i, g, t
- bitewing — a dental X-ray film
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blitzing — Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- blotting — a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- blunting — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- bogotify — (jargon) /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified. See also bogosity.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighter — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
- brigitte — a female given name, French form of Bridget.
- bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- by right — properly; justly
- by sight — by appearance; by recognizing but not through being acquainted
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- debiting — the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- dirt bag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- frog-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- gabbiest — Superlative form of gabby.
- ghiberti — Lorenzo [law-ren-tsaw] /lɔˈrɛn tsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1378–1455, Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, and painter.
- gibbeted — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of gibbet.
- gibbsite — a mineral, hydrated aluminum oxide, Al 2 O 3 ·3H 2 O, occurring in whitish or grayish crystals and masses: an important constituent of bauxite ore.
- gibibyte — (computing) Strictly, 230 (1,073,741,824) bytes, as opposed to a gigabyte.
- giftable — suitable for a gift.
- gigabits — Plural form of gigabit.
- gigabyte — a measure of storage capacity equal to 2 30 (1024) bytes.
- gilberts — Plural form of gilbert.
- gobshite — a mean and contemptible person, especially a braggart.