9-letter words containing i, b
- anybodies — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
- apiphobia — An inordinate fear of bees.
- appetible — desirable or capable of arousing desire
- appliable — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- aquabatic — of or relating to gymnastic feats that are performed in water
- aquarobic — pertaining to exercises performed standing up in a swimming pool
- arabicize — to make or become Arab
- arability — the suitability of land for growing crops
- arabinose — a pentose sugar in plant gums, esp of cedars and pines. It is used as a culture medium in bacteriology. Formula: C5H10O5
- arbitrage — In finance, arbitrage is the activity of buying shares or currency in one financial market and selling it at a profit in another.
- arbitrary — If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this.
- arbitrate — When someone in authority arbitrates between two people or groups who are in dispute, they consider all the facts and make an official decision about who is right.
- arbitress — a female arbitrator
- arbitrium — the power to decide
- arborists — Plural form of arborist.
- arborized — Simple past tense and past participle of arborize.
- arboviral — caused by an arbovirus
- arbovirus — any one of a group of viruses that cause such diseases as encephalitis and dengue and are transmitted to humans by arthropods, esp insects and ticks
- archibald — a masculine name: dim. Archie, Archy
- artmobile — a truck trailer outfitted to transport and exhibit works of art in areas without access to museums.
- asbestine — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- asbestoid — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- asbomania — the perceived indiscriminate and excessive use by the authorities of anti-social behaviour orders in dealing with people causing a nuisance to their fellow citizens
- ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
- asyllabic — not functioning in the manner of a syllable
- atabalipa — Atahualpa.
- attribute — If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation.
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- aubrietia — any trailing purple-flowered plant of the genus Aubrieta, native to European mountains but widely planted in rock gardens: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- audiobook — a recorded reading of a book recorded on tape, CD, or digital formats
- auditable — able to be audited
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
- available — If something you want or need is available, you can find it or obtain it.
- availably — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- avertible — Capable of being averted; preventable.
- avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
- avoidable — Something that is avoidable can be prevented from happening.
- avoidably — In a manner so as to be avoidable.
- b horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the A horizon, containing deposits of leached material
- b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
- b-picture — B-movie.
- b-setting — a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open until the shutter control is released
- b-toolkit — (tool, programming, product) A set of software tools designed to support a rigorous or formal development of software systems using the B-Method. The Toolkit also provides a development environment automating the management of all associated files, ensuring that the entire development, including code and documentation, is always in a consistent state. The Toolkit includes: a specification, design and code configuration management system, including integrity and dependency management and source file editing facilities; a set of software specification and design analysis tools, which includes syntax checkers, type checkers and a specification animator; a set of verification tools, which includes a proof-obligation generator and automatic and interactive provers; a set of coding tools, which includes a translator, linker, rapid prototyping facilities and a reusable specification/code module library; a documentation tool for automatically producing fully cross-referenced and indexed type-set documents from source files; a re-making tool for automatically re-checking and re-generating specifications, designs, code and documentation after modifications to source files. A normal licence costs 25,000 pounds, academic 6,250 pounds.
- babbitted — Simple past tense and past participle of babbitt.
- babbittry — the attitude and behavior of a Babbitt.
- babelized — reduced to complete confusion or meaninglessness.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- babirusas — Plural form of babirusa.
- baboonish — resembling a baboon