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

  • 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.
  • cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
  • castability — the ability of materials to set in a mould when mixed with water and a bonding agent
  • catabaptist — a person who is opposed to baptism.
  • catabolisms — Plural form of catabolism.
  • catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
  • 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
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