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12-letter words containing e, s, n, t, i

  • balinese cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, a plumed tail, blue eyes, large ears, and a dark mask, tail, and paws
  • ballast line — the level to which a vessel is immersed when in ballast.
  • bandoneonist — One who plays the bandoneon.
  • bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • bar sinister — the condition, implication, or stigma of being of illegitimate birth
  • base station — a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
  • beit knesset — a synagogue: often used in the names of congregations
  • belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
  • best in show — an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • bindle stiff — a hobo.
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • bioscientist — any science that deals with the biological aspects of living organisms.
  • biosynthesis — the formation of complex compounds from simple substances by living organisms
  • biosynthetic — of, relating to, or characterized by biosynthesis, the formation of chemical compounds by a living organism, or a laboratory process modeled after these reactions in living organisms.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
  • brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • brinell test — a test for determining the relative hardness (Brinell hardness) of a metal by measuring the diameter of the indentation made when a hardened steel ball is forced into the metal under a given pressure: the measure of hardness (Brinell number) is equal to the load in kilograms divided by the surface area in square millimeters of the indentation
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
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