6-letter words containing b, i
- bezier — (graphics) (After Frenchman Pierre Bézier from Regie Renault) A collection of formulae for describing curved lines (Bezier curve) and surfaces (Bezier surface), first used in 1972 to model automobile surfaces. Curves and surfaces are defined by a set of "control points" which can be moved interactively making Bezier curves and surfaces convenient for interactive graphic design.
- bezzie — best (esp in the phrase bezzie mate)
- bhakti — loving devotion to God leading to nirvana
- bhangi — a Hindu scavenger who belongs to one of the untouchable castes.
- bhikhu — a fully ordained Buddhist monk
- bhikku — a monk.
- bhilai — a city in S Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- bhindi — the okra as used in Indian cooking: its green pods are eaten as vegetables
- bhisho — a town in S South Africa, on the Buffalo River adjacent to King Williams Town; the capital of Eastern Cape, it was formerly the capital of the Ciskei Bantu homeland: it is the centre of a sheep and cattle ranching area with various industries
- bhungi — bhangi.
- bi sex — sex with both male and female partners
- biafra — a region of E Nigeria, formerly a local government region: seceded as an independent republic (1967–70) during the Civil War, but defeated by Nigerian government forces
- bialik — Hayyim Nahman (ˈhaɪm ˈnɑxman) or Chaim Nachman. 1873–1934, Russian Jewish poet and writer. His long poems The Talmud Student (1894) and In the City of Slaughter (1903) established him as the major Hebrew poet of modern times
- bianca — a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “white.”.
- bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
- biased — If someone is biased, they prefer one group of people to another, and behave unfairly as a result. You can also say that a process or system is biased.
- biases — a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography; our strong bias in favor of the idea.
- bibber — a drinker; tippler (esp in the expression wine-bibber)
- bibble — a pebble
- bibful — secret information (esp in the phrase spill a bibful)
- bibtex — (text, tool) A Tex extension package for bibliographic citations, distributed with LaTeX. BibTeX uses a style-independent bibliography database (.bib file) to produce a list of sources, in a customisable style, from citations in a Latex document. It also supports some other formats. BibTeX is a separate program from LaTeX. LaTeX writes information about citations and which .bib files to use in a ".aux" file. BibTeX reads this file and outputs a ".bbl" file containing LaTeX commands to produce the source list. You must then run LaTeX again to incorporate the source list in your document. In typeset documents, "BibTeX" is written in upper case, with the "IB" slightly smaller and with the "E" as a subscript. BibTeX is described in the LaTeX book by Lamport.
- bicarb — Bicarb is an abbreviation for bicarbonate of soda.
- biceps — Your biceps are the large muscles at the front of the upper part of your arms.
- bichat — Marie François Xavier [ma-ree frahn-swa gza-vyey] /maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa gzaˈvyeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1771–1802, French physician.
- bichir — an African freshwater fish with an elongated body
- bicker — When people bicker, they argue or quarrel about unimportant things.
- bicmos — (hardware) A manufacturing process for semiconductor devices that combines bipolar and CMOS to give the best balance between available output current and power consumption.
- bicone — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bicorn — having two horns or hornlike parts
- bicron — a billionth part of a metre
- bid in — (in an auction) to outbid all previous offers for (one's own property) to retain ownership or increase the final selling price
- bid up — If someone bids up the value of something, they try to increase it, for example by offering to buy it at a higher price than usual.
- bid-up — the act or an instance of increasing the price of something by forcing the bidding upward.
- bidden — Bidden is a past participle of bid2.
- bidder — A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
- biddle — John. 1615–62, English theologian; founder of Unitarianism in England
- bident — an instrument with two prongs
- biders — Archaic. to endure; bear.
- biding — Archaic. to endure; bear.
- bieldy — sheltered
- bienne — Biel
- bierce — Ambrose (Gwinett). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)
- biface — a prehistoric stone tool with two faces
- biffed — a blow; punch.
- biffer — someone, such as a sportsperson, who has a reputation for hitting hard
- biffex — Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange, inaugurated in London in 1985
- biffin — a variety of red cooking apple
- biflex — bent or flexed in two places
- bifold — foldable in two places
- biform — having or combining the characteristics of two forms, as a centaur