10-letter words containing b, i
- biannually — occurring twice a year; semiannual.
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bible belt — Parts of the southern United States are referred to as the Bible Belt because Protestants with strong beliefs have a lot of influence there.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- biblically — of or in the Bible: a Biblical name.
- bibliofilm — a microfilm used especially in libraries to photograph the pages of valuable or much-used books.
- bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bibliology — the study of Biblical literature
- bibliopegy — the art of binding books
- bibliopole — a dealer in books, esp rare or decorative ones
- bibliopoly — a bookseller, especially a dealer in rare or used books.
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- biblioteca — a library.
- bibliotics — the scientific study of handwriting, or written documents, for investigative purposes
- bibliotist — a person who engages in bibliotics
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bice green — a medium to bright yellow-green color.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
- bicultural — having two cultures
- bide a wee — to stay a little
- bidonville — a shanty town
- biennially — happening every two years: biennial games.
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- bierkeller — a public house decorated in German style, selling German beers
- bifacially — from a bifacial point of view
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
- big dipper — A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.
- big hitter — A big hitter is a sportsperson such as a golfer or tennis player who hits the ball with a lot of force.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- big sister — an elder sister.
- big spring — a city in W Texas.
- big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
- big-endian — 1. (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2. (networking, standard) A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. [email protected]). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. [email protected]) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- big-headed — If you describe someone as big-headed, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bigfooting — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous