11-letter words containing t, a, i, n, s
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- atonalities — Plural form of atonality.
- attainments — Plural form of attainment.
- attestation — the act of attesting
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- attractions — Plural form of attraction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- auditionees — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- augustinian — of or relating to Saint Augustine of Hippo, his doctrines, or any of the Christian religious orders that were founded on his doctrines
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- austenitize — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- australiana — objects or documents relating to Australia and its history or culture esp in the form of a collection
- austronesia — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- autogenesis — spontaneous generation
- autokinesis — a visual illusion occurring in low light, in which a stationary bright spot appears to be moving
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- aversion-to — a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
- awestricken — filled with awe.
- axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- bananaquits — Plural form of bananaquit.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.