8-letter words containing t, b, i
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- botryoid — having the form of a bunch of grapes: botryoidal hematite.
- botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bountied — offering a bounty.
- boutique — A boutique is a small shop that sells fashionable clothes, shoes, or jewellery.
- bovinity — the state of being bovine
- bowditch — Nathaniel1773-1838; U.S. mathematician, astronomer, & navigator
- bowenite — a compact and dense variety of green serpentine resembling jade.
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- box kite — a kite with a boxlike frame open at both ends
- brantail — a redstart
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brattain — Walter Houser. 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighter — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
- brigitte — a female given name, French form of Bridget.
- bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- brit lit — British literature, esp current fashionable writing
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- brookite — a reddish-brown to black mineral consisting of titanium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in silica veins. Formula: TiO2
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- built-in — Built-in devices or features are included in something as a part of it, rather than being separate.
- built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- bunfight — a tea party
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- burinist — a person who works with a burin