8-letter words containing n, b, t
- bibation — the activity of drinking to excess
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- big tent — a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- big-tent — a political party's or coalition's policy or doctrine of allowing and encouraging a wide range of beliefs, opinions, and views among its members.
- bighting — the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
- billiton — an island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea between Borneo and Sumatra. Chief town: Tanjungpandan. Area: 4833 sq km (1866 sq miles)
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- bination — celebration of Mass twice on the same day by the same priest.
- biotoxin — a toxic substance produced by a living organism
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
- bitchin' — wonderful or excellent
- bitching — a female dog: The bitch won first place in the sporting dogs category.
- bitewing — a dental X-ray film
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- blitzing — Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- bloncket — of a blue-grey colour
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- blotting — a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- blunkett — David, Baron. born 1947, British Labour politician: home secretary (2001–04)
- blunting — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- boatsman — boatman.
- bobbinet — a netted fabric of hexagonal mesh, made on a lace machine
- bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- boeotian — a native or inhabitant of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece
- boethian — Anicius Manlius Severinus [uh-nish-ee-uh s man-lee-uh s sev-uh-rahy-nuh s] /əˈnɪʃ i əs ˈmæn li əs ˌsɛv əˈraɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 475?–525? Roman philosopher and statesman.
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- boltonia — any North American plant of the genus Boltonia, having daisy-like flowers with white, violet, or pinkish rays: family Compositae (composites)
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- bontebok — an antelope, Damaliscus pygargus (or dorcas), of southern Africa, having a deep reddish-brown coat with a white blaze, tail, and rump patch
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.