8-letter words containing e, t, i
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bad time — inopportune moment
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- baptises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptise.
- baptized — Simple past tense and past participle of baptize.
- baptizer — someone who baptises
- baptizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
- bastides — Plural form of bastide.
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- bathetic — containing or displaying bathos
- battaile — (obsolete spelling of, battle).
- batterie — a movement in ballet involving the legs beating together
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beasties — Plural form of beastie.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- beatific — A beatific expression shows or expresses great happiness and calmness.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- bedlight — a bedlamp.
- bedquilt — a padded bedcover
- bedright — a right expected in the marital bed
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- bejesuit — to convert to Jesuitism
- beknight — to esteem
- belitong — Billiton.
- belittle — If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
- belitung — island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea, between Borneo & Sumatra: 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km)
- beltline — a line separating a car's windows from the main body
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- benedict — Saint. ?480–?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14
- benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.