10-letter words containing b, i, r, t
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- birthrates — birthrate
- birthright — Something that is your birthright is something that you feel you have a basic right to have, simply because you are a human being.
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- birthstool — a specially shaped seat formerly used in childbirth.
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- bit string — (programming, data) An ordered sequence of bits. This is very similar to a bit pattern except that the term "string" suggests an arbitrary length sequence as opposed to a pre-determined length "pattern".
- bitartrate — (not in technical usage) a salt or ester of tartaric acid containing the monovalent group -HC4H4O6 or the ion HC4H4O6–
- bitter end — the end of a line, chain, or cable, esp the end secured in the chain locker of a vessel
- bitter rot — a disease of apples, grapes, and other fruit, characterized by cankers on the branches or twigs and bitter, rotted fruit, caused by any of several fungi.
- bitterbark — an Australian tree, Alstonia constricta, with bitter-tasting bark that is used in preparing tonic medicines
- bitterling — a small brightly coloured European freshwater cyprinid fish, Rhodeus sericeus: a popular aquarium fish
- bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitterroot — a pink flower with an edible root found growing in America
- bitterweed — any of various plants that contain a bitter-tasting substance
- bitterwood — any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia
- bitterwort — yellow gentian.
- bittorrent — a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
- boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
- bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
- body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
- borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brain fart — (jargon, humour) 1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"