8-letter words containing s, i, t, e
- 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
- 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).
- bedights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedight.
- 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
- bejesuit — to convert to Jesuitism
- benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
- 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.
- besuited — wearing a suit
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- bettinus — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter.
- bimester — a period of two months
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bistable — having two stable states
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- caecitis — an inflammation of the caecum
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canities — greyness or whiteness of hair
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- casteism — the belief in, and adherence to, the caste system
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.