8-letter words containing i, b, s
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- bleakish — quite pale
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- blimpish — highly conservative and nationalistic
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- bliss-10 — (language) A version of BLISS from CMU for the PDP-10.
- bliss-11 — (language) A cross-compiler for the PDP-11 running on a PDP-10. Written at CMU to support the C.mmp/Hydra project.
- bliss-32 — (language) A version of BLISS from DEC for VAX/VMS.
- bliss-36 — (language) DEC's equivalent of BLISS-10.
- blissful — A blissful situation or period of time is one in which you are extremely happy.
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blousily — in the manner of a blouse
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- bodiless — having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial
- bodysuit — A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boiserie — finely-sculptured wood panelling or wainscoating, particularly in 18th-century French architecture
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- boniness — the condition of being bony
- bonspiel — a curling match
- boobyish — stupid or silly
- boobyism — the quality of being boobyish
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases