11-letter words containing i, a
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- beni mellal — a city in central Morocco.
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bhartrihari — a.d. 570?–650? Indian grammarian and poet.
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
- biauricular — having two auricles.
- bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
- bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
- biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
- bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliomania — extreme fondness for books
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
- bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency