12-letter words containing t, g, s
- best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
- beta testing — (programming) Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
- betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
- betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
- betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
- bibliologist — a student of bibliology
- bibliopegist — a bookbinder
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- binding post — one of several metal pegs or rods, fitted into a loose-leaf binder, for holding sheets with prepunched holes.
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
- bit stuffing — (protocol) A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blue-singlet — working-class
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- 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.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bus topology — bus
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- caliginosity — darkness
- camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
- canting arms — a coat of arms making visual reference to the surname of its owner
- capitalising — Present participle of capitalise.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
- caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
- caster sugar — Caster sugar is white sugar that has been ground into fine grains. It is used in cooking.
- castigations — Plural form of castigation.
- casting vote — When a committee has given an equal number of votes for and against a proposal, the chairperson can give a casting vote. This vote decides whether or not the proposal will be passed.
- castor sugar — finely ground or powdered sugar.
- categorising — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- center stage — If something or someone takes center stage, they become very important or noticeable.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- centralising — Present participle of centralise.
- centre stage — If something or someone takes centre stage, they become very important or noticeable.