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8-letter words containing t, e, b, i

  • libertas — the ancient Roman personification of liberty.
  • libertie — Archaic spelling of liberty.
  • libertys — a town in W Missouri.
  • librated — Simple past tense and past participle of librate.
  • libretti — (music, rare) Plural form of libretto.
  • libretto — the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
  • lifebelt — A life preserver in the shape of a belt.
  • lifeboat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
  • liftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
  • listable — That can be listed.
  • lovebite — Alternative spelling of love bite.
  • mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
  • megabits — Plural form of megabit.
  • meta bit — (character)   The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
  • misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
  • mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
  • nimblest — Superlative form of nimble.
  • nobelist — a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
  • nubbiest — Superlative form of nubby.
  • obedient — obeying or willing to obey; complying with or submissive to authority: an obedient son.
  • obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
  • obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
  • obtained — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • obtainer — One who obtains.
  • obviated — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
  • obviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obviate.
  • orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
  • orbiteer — to climb (a mountain) in a circular fashion as opposed to scaling.
  • orbiters — Plural form of orbiter.
  • outbribe — to bribe more than
  • overbite — occlusion in which the upper incisor teeth overlap the lower ones.
  • partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
  • phi bete — a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
  • pintable — a pinball machine
  • pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
  • plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
  • prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
  • prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • rabatine — a type of collar or cape worn over the shoulders
  • rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
  • rabbiter — a person who traps and sells rabbits
  • rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
  • reobtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • rib site — (networking)   (By analogy with backbone site) A host with an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site that serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in electronic mail and Usenet news. Compare leaf site.
  • robert i — ("Robert the Devil") died 1035, duke of Normandy 1028–35 (father of William I of England).
  • robotize — to turn (someone) into a robot.
  • roburite — a flameless safety explosive used in mines
  • sabatier — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1854–1941, French chemist: Nobel prize 1912.
  • sabotier — a wearer of sabots
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