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8-letter words containing s, i, b, e

  • basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
  • basquine — a tight-fitting bodice worn by women in the Basque region and in Spain
  • bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
  • bassline — (in jazz, rock, and pop music) the part played by the bass guitar
  • bastides — Plural form of bastide.
  • bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
  • bayesian — (of a theory) presupposing known a priori probabilities which may be subjectively assessed and which can be revised in the light of experience in accordance with Bayes' theorem. A hypothesis is thus confirmed by an experimental observation which is likely given the hypothesis and unlikely without it
  • baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
  • beadings — Plural form of beading.
  • beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
  • bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
  • bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
  • 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).
  • beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
  • bedevils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil.
  • bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
  • bedizens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedizen.
  • bedouins — Plural form of bedouin.
  • bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
  • bedsides — Plural form of bedside.
  • bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
  • beehives — Plural form of beehive.
  • beersies — beers
  • beeswing — a light filmy crust of tartar that forms in port and some other wines after long keeping in the bottle
  • behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
  • being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
  • beinness — the state of being comfortable
  • bejesuit — to convert to Jesuitism
  • believes — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
  • bemusing — to bewilder or confuse.
  • bendwise — diagonally
  • benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
  • beninese — of or relating to Benin or its people
  • beninois — a native or inhabitant of Benin
  • beniseed — the sesame seed
  • bepraise — to praise highly
  • berberis — any shrub of the berberidaceous genus Berberis
  • beshiver — to shatter
  • besieged — to lay siege to.
  • besieger — to lay siege to.
  • besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
  • besognio — a young soldier
  • best fit — (algorithm)   A resource allocation scheme (usually for memory). Best Fit allocates resources in a way that optimises some parameter. Alternative schemes such as first fit or random allocation are likely to be quicker but sub-optimal in use of resources. For example, when allocating a new block of memory from a pool of free blocks (a heap), one might choose the smallest space which is big enough. This would leave larger spaces free to satisfy larger requests and reduce fragmentation of the remaining free space.
  • bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
  • bestride — To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it.
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