13-letter words containing t, i, b, e, s
- battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
- beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
- beat sb to it — If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do.
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- beaux esprits — bel esprit
- beaux-esprits — plural of bel-esprit.
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedside table — a small table beside a bed
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beehive state — Utah (used as a nickname).
- behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- beige toaster — Macintosh
- belief system — The belief system of a person or society is the set of beliefs that they have about what is right and wrong and what is true and false.
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
- best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
- between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
- bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
- bible society — a Christian organization devoted to the printing and distribution of the Bible.
- bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
- bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
- binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
- bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
- birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
- biscuit bread — biscuits or a biscuit: I like biscuit bread more than corn bread for supper.
- biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
- bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
- bits per inch — (unit) (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
- bittersweetly — in a bittersweet manner
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
- blister steel — steel produced from wrought iron by cementation in covered pots, having a blistered appearance because of the gases generated during the process.
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.