11-letter words containing i, b, n
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- betweentime — the time between events; interval
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- 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.
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliomania — extreme fondness for 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.
- bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- big science — scientific research that requires a large investment of capital
- big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bikini line — A woman's bikini line is the edges of the area where her pubic hair grows.
- bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
- bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- binary data — binary file
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- bindingness — the quality of being binding
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- bingo wings — areas of loose or flabby skin on the upper arm, esp in women, which hang down when the arm is extended
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- bioengineer — Also called biomedical engineering. the application of engineering principles and techniques to problems in medicine and biology, as the design and production of artificial limbs and organs.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
- bioregional — relating to a bioregion