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4-letter words containing b, t

  • boto — a freshwater South American dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, having a long snout and fluctuating in color between pink and gray: inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco river systems.
  • bots — a digestive disease of horses and some other animals caused by the presence of botfly larvae in the stomach
  • bott — bot1
  • bout — If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period.
  • brat — If you call someone, especially a child, a brat, you mean that he or she behaves badly or annoys you.
  • brit — British people are sometimes referred to as Brits.
  • brut — (of champagne) not sweet; dry
  • bskt — basket
  • bsmt — basement
  • btec — Business and Technology Council
  • btl. — bottle
  • btoa — (tool, messaging, algorithm, file format)   /B too A/ A binary to ASCII conversion utility. btoa is a uuencode or base 64 equivalent which addresses some of the problems with the uuencode standard but not as many as the base 64 standard. It avoids problems that some hosts have with spaces (e.g. conversion of groups of spaces to tabs) by not including them in its character set, but may still have problems on non-ASCII systems (e.g. EBCDIC). btoa is primarily used to transfer binary files between systems across connections which are not eight-bit clean, e.g. electronic mail. btoa takes adjacent sets of four binary octets and encodes them as five ASCII octets using ASCII characters '!' through to 'u'. Special characters are also used: 'x' marks the beginning or end of the archive; 'z' marks four consecutive zeros and 'y' (version 5.2) four consecutive spaces. Each group of four octets is processed as a 32-bit integer. Call this 'I'. Let 'D' = 85^4. Divide I by D. Call this result 'R'. Make I = I - (R * D) to avoid overflow on the next step. Repeat, for values of D = 85^3, 85^2, 85 and 1. At each step, to convert R to the output character add decimal 33 (output octet = R + ASCII value for '!'). Five output octets are produced. btoa provides some integrity checking in the form of a line checksum, and facilities for patching corrupted downloads. The algorithm used by btoa is more efficient than uuencode or base 64. ASCII files are encoded to about 120% the size of their binary sources. This compares with 135% for uuencode or base 64. Pre-compiled MS-DOS versions are also available.
  • btos — Convergent Technologies Operating System
  • btrl — (company)   British Telecom Research Laboratories.
  • btry — battery (of artillery)
  • bunt — In baseball, if you bunt or if you bunt the ball, you deliberately hit the ball softly, in order to gain an advantage.
  • burt — William Austin, 1792–1858, U.S. surveyor and inventor.
  • bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
  • bute — the drug phenylbutazone, esp when used in the illegal doping of racehorses
  • buto — a contemporary expressionist dance form that originated in postwar Japan, first called Ankoku Butoh, or Dance of Utter Darkness.
  • buts — with the exception of; except; save: No one replied but me.
  • butt — Someone's butt is their bottom.
  • byte — In computing, a byte is a unit of storage approximately equivalent to one printed character.
  • cobt — Central Ontario Building Trades
  • dbst — Direct Broadcast Satellite Television
  • dbst — Direct Broadcast Satellite Television
  • debt — A debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
  • ebit — EBIT is the amount of profit that a person or company receives before interest and taxes have been deducted.
  • glbt — relating to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders collectively: the LGBT community.
  • lgbt — pertaining to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders collectively.
  • mtbe — methyl tertiary-butyl ether: a lead-free antiknock petrol additive
  • mtbf — (specification)   (MTBF, or "Mean Time Between Faults") The average time (usually expressed in hours) that a component works without failure. It is calculated by dividing the total number of failures into the total number of operating hours observed. The term can also mean the length of time a user may reasonably expect a device or system to work before an incapacitating fault occurs. See also Mean Time To Recovery.
  • ntsb — National Transportation Safety Board
  • ntub — National Trade Union Bodies
  • obdt — obedient
  • obit — Informal. an obituary.
  • objt — Error algebras plus an image construct. Tardo.
  • qutb — (in Sufism) the highest-ranking saint, the focal point of all spiritual energy.
  • rtbm — (Unix) Read The Bloody Manual.
  • rtfb — (jargon)   (By analogy with RTFM) Read The Fucking Binary. Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyse the assembler or even the machine code. "RTFB" is the least pejorative of the RTF? forms, the anger is directed at the absence of both source *and* adequate documentation rather than at the person asking a question.
  • satb — soprano, alto, tenor, bass: a combination of voices in choral music
  • stab — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • stbd — starboard
  • stbm — Simchat Torah Beit Midrash
  • stob — a post, stump, or stake.
  • stub — a short projecting part.
  • tabi — a covering for the foot, similar to a sock, having a separate pouchlike stall for the large toe, worn especially in Japan, often with zoris.
  • tabs — tabloid (def 1).
  • tabu — to put under a taboo; prohibit or forbid. Synonyms: prohibit, ban, forbid, proscribe. Antonyms: allow, permit, sanction.
  • tbil — Tiny Basic Interpreter Language
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