7-letter words containing i, b
- inbreed — to breed (individuals of a closely related group) repeatedly.
- inbring — to confiscate (the belongings of a condemned criminal), to seize by legal authority
- inbuild — Something built-in, structure, a construct.
- inbuilt — built-in (def 2).
- inburst — an irruption
- incubus — an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. Compare succubus (def 1).
- indabas — Plural form of indaba.
- infobot — (chat) A bot that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system. Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries. Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
can someone tell me what: $num9 = substr($number,9,1); means eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr". just tell me Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go look it up in the dictionary"?! eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell you. read the documentation. eesh -- if you haven't man pages or perldoc, you can read them on the 'net. purl, perlfunc? well, perlfunc is Perl builtin functions, at man perlfunc or http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/. - inglobe — to enclose as in a globe; encompass; fix within a sphere
- inhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhibin — (biochemistry) A peptide hormone, secreted by the gonads, which inhibits the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and is thus under consideration as a male contraceptive.
- inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- ink bag — a gland near the anus of an octopus or related mollusc that holds fluid ejected into the water for self-concealment
- inkblot — A blot of ink.
- inqilab — (in India, Pakistan, etc) revolution (esp in the phrase inqilab zindabad long live the revolution)
- iobates — a Lycian king commissioned by his son-in-law, Proetus, to kill Bellerophon: after surviving ordeals designed to destroy him, Bellerophon was believed to be divinely protected, and Iobates gave him half his kingdom.
- isa bus — Industry Standard Architecture
- isabela — a city in NW Puerto Rico.
- ise bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the S coast of Honshu, Japan.
- isobare — Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- isobars — Meteorology. a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same.
- isobase — a line on a chart or map that connects points of equal land upheaval
- isobath — an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
- itabuna — a city in E Brazil.
- jabbing — a poke with the end or point of something; a sharp, quick thrust.
- jabirus — Plural form of jabiru.
- jabroni — (professional wrestling slang) a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- jacobin — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jalebis — Plural form of jalebi.
- jambier — a greave
- jambiya — an Arabian knife having a curved, double-edged blade, usually with a central rib.
- jaybird — jay1 .
- jibbing — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- jibbons — spring onions
- jibboom — Alternative spelling of jib-boom.
- jigaboo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jobbing — a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price: She gave him the job of mowing the lawn.
- jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- jubilus — (in Roman Catholic music) a rejoicing, melodic group of tones to which is chanted the last “a” of the second and third alleluias, often following the gradual of the Mass.
- jubious — Eye dialect dubious.
- kabaddi — A South Asian team sport in which players must hold their breath while making raids into the opposing team's half of the field.
- kabylia — a historic and ethnic region in the north of Algeria
- kalimba — mbira.
- kembing — Present participle of kemb.
- kerbing — the material forming a curb, as along a street.
- kibbitz — Alternative spelling of kibitz.
- kibbled — Simple past tense and past participle of kibble.
- kibbutz — (in Israel) a community settlement, usually agricultural, organized under collectivist principles.
- kibitka — A circular tent used by various nomadic peoples such as the Kalmyks and Kyrgyz.
- kickbox — to practise kickboxing