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12-letter words containing i, b, s

  • bicycle shop — a shop that sells and usually repairs bicycles and bicycle parts
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • 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
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • bilharziasis — schistosomiasis
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bill of sale — a deed transferring personal property, either outright or as security for a loan or debt
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • bio-security — the precautions taken to protect against the spread of lethal or harmful organisms and diseases
  • bioacoustics — the study of animals' use of sound
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • biocorrosion — corrosion caused by or enhanced by bacteria or other microorganisms; biologically induced corrosion.
  • biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
  • biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • biopesticide — a naturally occurring or derived substance or an organism that controls pests by nontoxic means
  • biorhythmics — the study of biorhythms
  • biosatellite — an artificial satellite for carrying living organisms
  • bioscientist — any science that deals with the biological aspects of living organisms.
  • biosociology — the study of the evolution of social forms and the development of social behavior in terms analogous to or correlated with biological studies.
  • biosynthesis — the formation of complex compounds from simple substances by living organisms
  • biosynthetic — of, relating to, or characterized by biosynthesis, the formation of chemical compounds by a living organism, or a laboratory process modeled after these reactions in living organisms.
  • bioterrorism — Bioterrorism is terrorism that involves the use of biological weapons.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
  • bird-spotter — a bird-watcher
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • bishop's-cap — any of a genus (Mitella) of small woodland plants of the saxifrage family, with two-lobed seedcases shaped like a bishop's hat
  • bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • bit of skirt — a girl or woman
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
  • bitter cress — any plant belonging to the genus Cardamine, of the mustard family, having usually pinnate leaves and clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers.
  • bitter lakes — two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal
  • biuniqueness — the quality of a one-to-one correspondence
  • black muslim — a member of the Black Muslims
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