9-letter words containing t, a, b, i
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- braillist — a person who transcribes or creates Braille
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brecciate — to form into breccia
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- briarroot — the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- busticate — to break
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- cabbalist — cabala.
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- cat brier — greenbrier, esp. the vine (Smilax glauca)
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- catabasis — a descent or downward movement
- catabolic — destructive metabolism; the breaking down in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones, with the release of energy (opposed to anabolism).
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- celibatic — of or relating to celibacy
- cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.