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12-letter words containing t, b, i

  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • book society — book club.
  • boot topping — the part of a ship's hull that is between the load line and the water line when the ship is not loaded
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
  • botrytis rot — a disease of many plants caused by fungi of the genus Botrytis, characterized by leaf blight, a tan-gray moldlike surface growth, and the rotting of stems and storage organs.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
  • box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
  • brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
  • brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation
  • branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
  • brazilianite — a mineral, sodium aluminum phosphate, Na 2 Al 6 P 4 O 16 (OH) 8 , occurring in yellow-green crystals with a vitreous luster: used as a gem.
  • breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • breech birth — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • brevicaudate — having a short tail.
  • brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
  • bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
  • bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • brilliantine — a perfumed oil used to make the hair smooth and shiny
  • brinell test — a test for determining the relative hardness (Brinell hardness) of a metal by measuring the diameter of the indentation made when a hardened steel ball is forced into the metal under a given pressure: the measure of hardness (Brinell number) is equal to the load in kilograms divided by the surface area in square millimeters of the indentation
  • bring action — to start a lawsuit
  • bring to bay — to force into a position from which retreat is impossible
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • british list — a list, maintained by the British Ornithologists' Union, of birds accepted as occurring at least once in the British Isles
  • british rail — the organization that ran the British railway system from 1948 until privatization in the mid-1990s
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
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