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12-letter words containing i, b, n

  • beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
  • best in show — an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • betweenbrain — the posterior part of the forebrain
  • betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
  • beurre manie — butterpaste.
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
  • beyond price — invaluable or priceless
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • bible banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
  • bicentennial — A bicentennial is the same as a bicentenary.
  • bichon frise — a small white poodle-like dog of European origin, with a silky, loosely curling coat
  • bid defiance — to resist boldly
  • bien entendu — certainly; to be sure
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • bifunctional — having two functions
  • big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
  • big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • bill and coo — the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
  • bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
  • binary color — secondary color.
  • binary digit — either of the two digits 0 or 1, used in binary notation
  • binder twine — a strong, coarse twine, as of sisal, used especially in binding sheaves of grain and bales of hay.
  • binding post — one of several metal pegs or rods, fitted into a loose-leaf binder, for holding sheets with prepunched holes.
  • bindle stiff — a hobo.
  • binge eating — the practice of eating excessive amounts of food over a short period of time
  • bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
  • binocularity — binocular characteristics
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • biocoenology — the branch of ecology concerned with the relationships and interactions between the members of a natural community
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • biocorrosion — corrosion caused by or enhanced by bacteria or other microorganisms; biologically induced corrosion.
  • bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
  • bioinorganic — pertaining to the biological activity of metal complexes and nonmetal compounds based on elements other than carbon (contrasted with bioorganic).
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
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