12-letter words containing e, u, i
- beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
- beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- bed moulding — a moulding in an entablature between the corona and the frieze
- begrudgingly — If you do something begrudgingly, you do it unwillingly.
- behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- beijing duck — a roasted duck prized for its crisp skin, prepared by forcing air between skin and meat, brushing with sugar water, and hanging up to dry before final cooking.
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
- benefit club — a club whose members enjoy certain benefits, such as reduced prices for travel or sporting events
- benzoquinone — a yellow crystalline water-soluble unsaturated ketone manufactured from aniline and used in the production of dyestuffs. Formula: C6H4O2
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- beurre manie — butterpaste.
- bezier curve — (graphics) A type of curve defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics. A curve with coordinates P(u), where u varies from 0 at one end of the curve to 1 at the other, is defined by a set of n+1 "control points" (X(i), Y(i), Z(i)) for i = 0 to n. P(u) = Sum i=0..n [(X(i), Y(i), Z(i)) * B(i, n, u)] B(i, n, u) = C(n, i) * u^i * (1-u)^(n-i) C(n, i) = n!/i!/(n-i)! A Bezier curve (or surface) is defined by its control points, which makes it invariant under any affine mapping (translation, rotation, parallel projection), and thus even under a change in the axis system. You need only to transform the control points and then compute the new curve. The control polygon defined by the points is itself affine invariant. Bezier curves also have the variation-diminishing property. This makes them easier to split compared to other types of curve such as Hermite or B-spline. Other important properties are multiple values, global and local control, versatility, and order of continuity.
- bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
- biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
- biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
- bibb lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce, formed in loose heads of very crisp, dark-green leaves
- bibliotheque — a library.
- bicycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- bien entendu — certainly; to be sure
- big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
- billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
- billie burke — Billie (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke) 1886–1970, U.S. actress.
- bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
- bio-security — the precautions taken to protect against the spread of lethal or harmful organisms and diseases
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- 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
- biuniqueness — the quality of a one-to-one correspondence
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
- blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
- blister rust — a disease of certain pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium, causing swellings on the bark from which orange masses of spores are released
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
- blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
- blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
- blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou