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8-letter words containing i, b, a

  • birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
  • birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
  • birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
  • biserial — in two rows
  • bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
  • bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
  • bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
  • bistable — having two stable states
  • bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
  • bit mask — (programming)   A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
  • bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
  • bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
  • bitbrace — brace (def 3).
  • biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
  • bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
  • bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
  • biyearly — every two years; biennial or biennially
  • blabbing — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
  • blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
  • blackice — (software, security)   A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
  • blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
  • blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
  • blagging — informal conversation in a public place, often deceitful.
  • blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
  • blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
  • blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
  • blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
  • blatting — bleat.
  • blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
  • bleakish — quite pale
  • blearily — (of the eyes or sight) blurred or dimmed, as from sleep or weariness.
  • bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
  • bletilla — any of several terrestrial orchids of the genus Bletilla, of eastern Asia, as B. striata, having terminal clusters of showy purple or white flowers.
  • blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
  • blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
  • blizzard — A blizzard is a very heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
  • bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
  • bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
  • boadicea — Boudicca
  • boardies — a pair of board shorts
  • boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
  • boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
  • boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
  • boatbill — a nocturnal tropical American wading bird, Cochlearius cochlearius, similar to the night herons but with a broad flattened bill: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
  • boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
  • boatlike — resembling a boat
  • boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
  • boattail — a large species of blackbird, Quiscalus major, found in coastal areas of the southeastern US
  • bocaccio — a species of rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis, commonly found along the west coast of North America
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