7-letter words containing i, b
- bircher — a member or supporter of the John Birch Society
- birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
- birdies — a small bird.
- birding — bird-watching
- birdman — a man concerned with birds, such as a fowler or ornithologist
- biretta — a stiff clerical cap having either three or four upright pieces projecting outwards from the centre to the edge: coloured black for priests, purple for bishops, red for cardinals, and white for certain members of religious orders
- biriani — a spicy Indian dish of rice with meat or vegetables, flavored with saffron or turmeric.
- birling — a game in which each of two lumberjacks, standing on the same floating log, birls the log so as to try to cause the other to fall off
- birlinn — a sea-going vessel used in the Middle Ages in Scotland's western highlands and islands
- birthed — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- birther — a person who believes that Barack Obama, US President 2009–2017, was not born in the USA and was therefore not eligible to be President
- biryani — any of a variety of Indian dishes made with rice, highly flavoured and coloured with saffron or turmeric, mixed with meat or fish
- bisayan — Visayan
- biscuit — A biscuit is a small flat cake that is crisp and usually sweet.
- bishkek — the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Pop: 828 000 (2005 est)
- bisitun — Behistun.
- bismuth — a brittle pinkish-white crystalline metallic element having low thermal and electrical conductivity, which expands on cooling. It is widely used in alloys, esp low-melting alloys in fire safety devices; its compounds are used in medicines. Symbol: Bi; atomic no: 83; atomic wt: 208.98037; valency: 3 or 5; relative density: 9.747; melting pt: 271.4°C; boiling pt: 1564±5°C
- bisnaga — a large barrel-shaped cactus found in SW USA and NW Mexico
- bistate — involving two states
- bistort — a Eurasian polygonaceous plant, Polygonum bistorta, having leaf stipules fused to form a tube around the stem and a spike of small pink flowers
- bisutun — Behistun.
- bit key — a key having a wing bit for moving a leverlike tumbler of a lock.
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- bitable — which can be bitten
- bitchen — marvelous; wonderful.
- bitcoin — a system of open source peer-to-peer software for the creation and exchange of (payment in) a certain type of cryptocurrency; the first such system to be fully functional
- bite me — expressing contempt
- bitless — without a (horse's) bit
- bitonal — consisting of black and white tones
- bittern — any wading bird of the genera Ixobrychus and Botaurus, related and similar to the herons but with shorter legs and neck, a stouter body, and a booming call: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
- bitters — bitter-tasting spirits of varying alcoholic content flavoured with plant extracts
- bitting — Also called bollard. a strong post of wood or iron projecting, usually in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc.
- bittock — a bit
- bitumed — covered with bitumen
- bitumen — Bitumen is a black sticky substance which is obtained from tar or petrol and is used in making roads.
- bitwise — (programming) A bitwise operator treats its operands as a vector of bits rather than a single number. Boolean bitwise operators combine bit N of each operand using a Boolean function (NOT, AND, OR, XOR) to produce bit N of the result. For example, a bitwise AND operator ("&" in C) would evaluate 13 & 9 as (binary) 1101 & 1001 = 1001 = 9, whereas, the logical AND, (C "&&") would evaluate 13 && 9 as TRUE && TRUE = TRUE = 1. In some languages, e.g. Acorn's BASIC V, the same operators are used for both bitwise and logical operations. This usually works except when applying NOT to a value x which is neither 0 (false) nor -1 (true), in which case both x and (NOT x) will be non-zero and thus treated as TRUE. Other operations at the bit level, which are not normally described as "bitwise" include shift and rotate.
- bivalve — any marine or freshwater mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (formerly Bivalvia or Lamellibranchia), having a laterally compressed body, a shell consisting of two hinged valves, and gills for respiration. The group includes clams, cockles, oysters, and mussels
- bivinyl — butadiene.
- bivious — with a choice of two different ways
- bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
- bizarre — Something that is bizarre is very odd and strange.
- bizarro — bizarre
- bizerte — a port in N Tunisia, on the Mediterranean at the canalized outlet of Lake Bizerte. Pop: 118 000 (2005 est)
- biznaga — any of several thorny cactuses of the genera Echinocactus, Ferocactus, and Astrophytum of the southwestern U.S.
- bizonal — of or relating to two administrative zones
- blackie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- blading — the act or an instance of skating with in-line skates
- blaming — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- blanqui — Louis Auguste (French lwi oɡyst). 1805–81, French revolutionary, who organized secret socialist societies and preached violent insurrection; he spent over 30 years in prison
- blaring — to emit a loud, raucous sound: The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.