9-letter words containing e, b, i, t
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- bile duct — the duct that conveys bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum
- bile salt — a product of a bile acid and a base, functioning as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids for absorption in the duodenum.
- bilection — bolection
- bilestone — gallstone.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- biliteral — consisting of two letters
- billeting — the activity of assigning soldiers or others to accommodation that is not normally used by them
- bimotored — having two engines.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
- biometric — Biometric tests and devices use biological information about a person to create a detailed record of their personal characteristics.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- biostrome — a rock layer consisting of a deposit of organic material, such as fossils
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- birthname — a name given at birth
- birthrate — the number of births per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisectrix — the bisector of the angle between the optic axes of a crystal
- biseriate — (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
- biserrate — (of leaf margins, etc) having serrations that are themselves serrate
- bismutite — a mineral, bismuth carbonate, resulting from the alteration of bismuth minerals: a minor source of bismuth.
- bisontine — relating to bison
- bissextus — February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400, a rule introduced by the Gregorian calendar) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit decay — bit rot
- bit field — (data) Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
- bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- bit slice — (of central processing units) able to be built up in sections to form complete central processing units with various word lengths
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- bite-size — small enough to fit in the mouth or be consumed in one or two bites: bite-size candies.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
- bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically
- bitterest — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitterish — (of taste) quite bitter
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels