7-letter words containing o, b
- bifocal — having two different focuses
- bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
- big boy — an articulated steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, one section of eight driving wheels, a second section of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheeled rear truck.
- big one — a thousand dollars
- big toe — Your big toe is the largest toe on your foot.
- big top — The large round tent that a circus uses for its performances is called the big top.
- big-box — A big-box store or retailer is a very large store where a great variety of merchandise is sold.
- bigfoot — a yeti
- bighorn — a large wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, inhabiting mountainous regions in North America and NE Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. The male has massive curved horns, and the species is well adapted for climbing and leaping
- bigoted — Someone who is bigoted has strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions and will not change them, even when they are proved to be wrong.
- bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
- bilboes — a long iron bar with two sliding shackles, formerly used to confine the ankles of a prisoner
- bilious — If someone describes the appearance of something as bilious, they mean that they think it looks unpleasant and rather disgusting.
- billion — A billion is a thousand million.
- billowy — full of or forming billows
- bilobed — consisting of or divided into two lobes.
- biltong — strips of meat dried and cured in the sun
- bimodal — characterized by two modes
- bimorph — an assembly of two piezoelectric crystals cemented together so that an applied voltage causes one to expand and the other to contract, converting electrical signals into mechanical energy. Conversely, bending can generate a voltage: used in loudspeakers, gramophone pick-ups, etc
- bimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has two engines.
- binocle — an opera- or field-glass employing telescopic tubes for both eyes
- bio-bio — a river in central Chile, rising in the Andes and flowing northwest to the Pacific. Length: about 390 km (240 miles)
- biobank — any large store of human biological samples for research into the genetic and environmental causes of disease
- biochip — a small glass or silicon plate containing an array of biochemical molecules or structures, used as a biosensor or in gene sequencing
- biocide — a chemical, such as a pesticide, capable of killing living organisms
- biodata — information regarding an individual's education and work history, esp in the context of a selection process
- biofact — an item of biological information
- biofilm — a thin layer of living organisms
- biofuel — A biofuel is a gas, liquid, or solid from natural sources such as plants that is used as a fuel.
- biogeny — the evolutionary history of living organisms
- bioherm — a mound of material laid down by sedentary marine organisms, esp a coral reef
- biology — Biology is the science which is concerned with the study of living things.
- biomass — the total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area
- bionics — the study of certain biological functions, esp those relating to the brain, that are applicable to the development of electronic equipment, such as computer hardware, designed to operate in a similar manner
- bionomy — the branch of science concerned with the laws of life
- biophor — (in Weismann's theory of heredity) a hypothetical particle of the ultimate form of matter
- bioplay — a play based on the life of a famous person, esp one giving a popular treatment
- biopsic — relating to the examination of living body tissue
- biotech — Biotech means the same as biotechnology.
- biotite — a black or dark green mineral of the mica group, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Composition: hydrous magnesium iron potassium aluminium silicate. Formula: K(Mg,Fe)3(Al,Fe)Si3O10(OH)2. Crystal structure: monoclinic
- biotope — a small area, such as the bark of a tree, that supports its own distinctive community
- biotron — a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions
- biotype — a group of genetically identical plants within a species, produced by apomixis
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bipolar — suffering from bipolar manic-depressive disorder
- birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
- bistort — a Eurasian polygonaceous plant, Polygonum bistorta, having leaf stipules fused to form a tube around the stem and a spike of small pink flowers
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- bitcoin — a system of open source peer-to-peer software for the creation and exchange of (payment in) a certain type of cryptocurrency; the first such system to be fully functional
- bitonal — consisting of black and white tones