11-letter words containing i, n, s, b, t
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- biscuit tin — an airtight container for storing biscuits in
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bristliness — the quality of being bristly
- brittleness — the quality of being brittle
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
- congestible — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- cybernetics — Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developing machines that do things or think like people.
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disbenefits — Plural form of disbenefit.