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12-letter words containing s, i, n

  • bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • bichon frise — a small white poodle-like dog of European origin, with a silky, loosely curling coat
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
  • big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • binding post — one of several metal pegs or rods, fitted into a loose-leaf binder, for holding sheets with prepunched holes.
  • bindle stiff — a hobo.
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • biocorrosion — corrosion caused by or enhanced by bacteria or other microorganisms; biologically induced corrosion.
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • bioscientist — any science that deals with the biological aspects of living organisms.
  • biosynthesis — the formation of complex compounds from simple substances by living organisms
  • biosynthetic — of, relating to, or characterized by biosynthesis, the formation of chemical compounds by a living organism, or a laboratory process modeled after these reactions in living organisms.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biscayne bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Florida, separating the cities of Miami and Miami Beach.
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • biuniqueness — the quality of a one-to-one correspondence
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
  • blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
  • blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
  • blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
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