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17-letter words containing b, i, s, t

  • goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
  • impracticableness — The state of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • indefatigableness — The state of being indefatigable.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indian paintbrush — any of several semiparasitic plants belonging to the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, as C. linariaefolia, of the western U.S.: the state flower of Wyoming.
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
  • inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intangible assets — intellectual property, etc.
  • interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
  • intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
  • intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
  • intertranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • intestinal bypass — the surgical circumvention, by anastomosis, of a diseased portion of the intestine; also sometimes used to reduce nutrient absorption in morbidly obese patients.
  • into one's barrow — suited to one's interests or desires
  • intransitive verb — a verb that indicates a complete action without being accompanied by a direct object, as sit or lie, and, in English, that does not form a passive.
  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
  • job-order costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
  • john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
  • juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • lebanon mountains — a mountain range extending the length of Lebanon, in the central part. Highest peak, 10,049 feet (3063 meters).
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • leibniz mountains — a mountain range on the SW limb of the moon, containing the highest peaks (10 000 metres) on the moon
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
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