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8-letter words containing s, a, b

  • beslaver — to fawn, or to slobber, over
  • bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
  • best man — The best man at a wedding is the man who assists the bridegroom.
  • bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
  • bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
  • bestreak — to streak
  • betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
  • bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
  • biasedly — in a biased manner
  • biasness — an indirectness in speech or conduct
  • bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
  • bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
  • big easy — the New Orleans
  • bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
  • bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
  • bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
  • bimbashi — a Turkish military official
  • bimensal — occurring every two months
  • binaries — binary file
  • binarism — the state of being binary
  • bioassay — a method of determining the concentration, activity, or effect of a change to substance by testing its effect on a living organism and comparing this with the activity of an agreed standard
  • bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
  • bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
  • biparous — producing offspring in pairs
  • biphasic — having two phases
  • biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
  • biserial — in two rows
  • bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
  • bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
  • bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
  • 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.
  • blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
  • blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
  • blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
  • blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
  • blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
  • blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
  • blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
  • blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
  • blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
  • bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
  • bleakish — quite pale
  • blue gas — water gas.
  • bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
  • boardies — a pair of board shorts
  • boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
  • boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
  • boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
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