8-letter words containing s, a, b, t, i
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- bastions — Plural form of bastion.
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- batinism — a secret movement in Islam, often associated with Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beasties — Plural form of beastie.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- beatniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the Beat Generation.
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- bistable — having two stable states
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- daibutsu — a large representation of the Buddha.
- diabetes — Diabetes is a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in their blood.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- dishabit — to dislodge
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fibratus — (of a cloud) hairlike or striated in composition.
- fishbait — Bait for fishing.
- gabbiest — Superlative form of gabby.
- gigabits — Plural form of gigabit.
- habitats — Plural form of habitat.
- habitues — Plural form of habitu\u00e9.
- halibuts — Plural form of halibut.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- inhabits — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.