8-letter words containing t, b
- biotoxin — a toxic substance produced by a living organism
- biotroph — a parasitic organism, esp a fungus
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- biscotti — hard, plain, bar-shaped cookies containing almonds or hazelnuts
- biscotto — a thin Italian biscuit
- biscuity — tasting or smelling of biscuit
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bistable — having two stable states
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
- bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- bitchin' — wonderful or excellent
- bitching — a female dog: The bitch won first place in the sporting dogs category.
- biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
- bitewing — a dental X-ray film
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
- bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
- bittered — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
- bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blackett — Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- bladelet — a small, blade-shaped, sometimes retouched piece of stone used as the cutting edge of a weapon or tool by late Stone Age peoples.
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blankety — a euphemism for any taboo word
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blatting — bleat.
- bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bletilla — any of several terrestrial orchids of the genus Bletilla, of eastern Asia, as B. striata, having terminal clusters of showy purple or white flowers.