9-letter words containing i, b, e, a
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bi-endian — Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
- biathlete — an athlete taking part in a biathlon
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- bierstadt — Albert1830-1902; U.S. painter, born in Germany
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bike lane — A bike lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by people riding bicycles.
- bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- bike rack — stand for parking cycles
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- bile salt — a product of a bile acid and a base, functioning as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids for absorption in the duodenum.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- biliteral — consisting of two letters
- billables — that may or should be billed: Attorneys put in hundreds of billable hours on the case.
- billerica — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- bin laden — Osama (əʊˈsɑːmə). 1957–2011, Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network: presumed architect of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11 2001. Killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- binuclear — having two nuclei
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- biohermal — a carbonate rock formation, in the form of an ancient reef or hummock, consisting of the fossilized remains of corals, algae, mollusks, and other sedentary marine life, and commonly surrounded by rock of a different lithology.
- biomarker — a distinct biochemical, genetic, or molecular characteristic or substance that is an indicator of a particular biological condition or process: a blood test to measure protein biomarkers for cancer.
- biomasses — Ecology. the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- birlieman — a judge dealing with local law