11-letter words containing e, b, i, t
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- billet-doux — a love letter
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- bit pattern — (data) A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- bitter herb — an Old World herb, Centaurium erythraea, used dried in medicine as a tonic.
- bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
- bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
- bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blanketlike — resembling a blanket
- blastematic — blastemal