11-letter words containing b, i, n, t
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
- bugging out — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
- bunch light — a light consisting of a group of small light bulbs mounted in a reflecting box.
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid
- button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
- by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- carbocation — (chemistry) any cation containing an excess positive charge on one or more carbon atoms.
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonation — absorption of or reaction with carbon dioxide
- carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- celtiberian — a member of a Celtic people (Celtiberi) who inhabited the Iberian peninsula during classical times
- centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
- cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- combination — A combination of things is a mixture of them.
- combinative — resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combinatory — combinative
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
- concubitant — a person obliged to marry another, esp a woman obliged to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- congestible — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- connectible — Connectable.
- containable — to hold or include within its volume or area: This glass contains water. This paddock contains our best horses.