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12-letter words containing s, e, i

  • barristerial — pertaining to a barrister
  • bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
  • base bullion — smelted lead containing impurities, as gold, silver, or zinc, that are later removed.
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base station — a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • bashkirtseff — Marie, original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva. 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887)
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basidiospore — one of the spores, usually four in number, produced in a basidium
  • basilic vein — a large vein situated on the inner side of the arm
  • basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
  • basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
  • basse-taille — of or relating to an enameling technique in which transparent enamels are fused over a background carved in low relief, or to a piece, as of jewelry, so enameled.
  • bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
  • bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
  • battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
  • beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • becomingness — The state or quality of becoming.
  • bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
  • bedfordshire — a county of S central England, administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire: mainly low-lying, with the Chiltern Hills in the south: the geographical county includes Luton, which became a separate unitary authority in 1997. Area (excluding Luton): 1192 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • bedside lamp — a lamp beside a bed
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • beit knesset — a synagogue: often used in the names of congregations
  • bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
  • belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
  • bellows fish — snipefish.
  • below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
  • bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
  • bernina pass — a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)
  • berwickshire — (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area
  • beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
  • best in show — an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
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