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11-letter words containing i, s, t, a

  • beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
  • beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
  • bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
  • bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
  • bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
  • binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
  • bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
  • bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
  • bisociative — relating to bisociation
  • 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.
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • blastematic — blastemal
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
  • 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.
  • bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
  • braggartism — the activity of a braggart
  • 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
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
  • bullmastiff — a breed of dog
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • 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.
  • cabbalistic — cabala.
  • cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
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