8-letter words containing i, b, n
- biennium — a period of two years
- bienvenu — welcome.
- big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- big bang — any sudden forceful beginning or radical change
- big guns — an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
- big tent — a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
- big-name — having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous: a big-name doctor; a big-name actress.
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- big-tent — a political party's or coalition's policy or doctrine of allowing and encouraging a wide range of beliefs, opinions, and views among its members.
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- bighting — the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- bikinied — dressed in a bikini
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- bilinear — of or referring to two lines
- billings — Josh (dʒɑʃ ) ; jäsh) (pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-85; U.S. humorist
- billiton — an island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea between Borneo and Sumatra. Chief town: Tanjungpandan. Area: 4833 sq km (1866 sq miles)
- billycan — Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- bination — celebration of Mass twice on the same day by the same priest.
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- binchois — Gilles [Dutch khil-uh s;; French zheel] /Dutch ˈxɪl əs;; French ʒil/ (Show IPA), or Egidius [Dutch ey-khee-dee-oo s] /Dutch eɪˈxi diˌʊs/ (Show IPA), c1400–60, Flemish composer.
- bindable — capable of being tied by a rope
- bindweed — Bindweed is a wild plant that winds itself around other plants and makes it difficult for them to grow.
- bing xin — (Xie Wanying) 1900–1999, Chinese writer.
- bingeing — a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, etc.; spree.
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- binomial — a mathematical expression consisting of two terms, such as 3x + 2y
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- biotoxin — a toxic substance produced by a living organism
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- birdwing — a type of large, tropical butterfly
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
- 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.
- bitchin' — wonderful or excellent
- bitching — a female dog: The bitch won first place in the sporting dogs category.