9-letter words containing t, i, b
- anabantid — any of various spiny-finned fishes constituting the family Anabantidae and including the fighting fish, climbing perch, and gourami
- anabiotic — a bringing back to consciousness; reanimation after apparent death.
- anabolite — a product of anabolism
- anatabine — a liquid alkaloid, C 10 H 12 N 2 , obtained from tobacco.
- ant tribe — (in China) a generation of young people who have migrated from rural areas to cities in large numbers
- antiabuse — designed to prevent abuse
- antiblack — showing discrimination against Black people
- antibully — Intended to counter bullying.
- antibuser — someone who opposes busing
- antilabor — opposed to labor unions or to the interests of workers
- antiurban — opposed to the urban environment or urban life
- appetible — desirable or capable of arousing desire
- aquabatic — of or relating to gymnastic feats that are performed in water
- arability — the suitability of land for growing crops
- arbitrage — In finance, arbitrage is the activity of buying shares or currency in one financial market and selling it at a profit in another.
- arbitrary — If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this.
- arbitrate — When someone in authority arbitrates between two people or groups who are in dispute, they consider all the facts and make an official decision about who is right.
- arbitress — a female arbitrator
- arbitrium — the power to decide
- arborists — Plural form of arborist.
- artmobile — a truck trailer outfitted to transport and exhibit works of art in areas without access to museums.
- asbestine — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- asbestoid — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- atabalipa — Atahualpa.
- attribute — If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation.
- aubrietia — any trailing purple-flowered plant of the genus Aubrieta, native to European mountains but widely planted in rock gardens: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- auditable — able to be audited
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- avertible — Capable of being averted; preventable.
- b-picture — B-movie.
- b-setting — a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open until the shutter control is released
- b-toolkit — (tool, programming, product) A set of software tools designed to support a rigorous or formal development of software systems using the B-Method. The Toolkit also provides a development environment automating the management of all associated files, ensuring that the entire development, including code and documentation, is always in a consistent state. The Toolkit includes: a specification, design and code configuration management system, including integrity and dependency management and source file editing facilities; a set of software specification and design analysis tools, which includes syntax checkers, type checkers and a specification animator; a set of verification tools, which includes a proof-obligation generator and automatic and interactive provers; a set of coding tools, which includes a translator, linker, rapid prototyping facilities and a reusable specification/code module library; a documentation tool for automatically producing fully cross-referenced and indexed type-set documents from source files; a re-making tool for automatically re-checking and re-generating specifications, designs, code and documentation after modifications to source files. A normal licence costs 25,000 pounds, academic 6,250 pounds.
- babbitted — Simple past tense and past participle of babbitt.
- babbittry — the attitude and behavior of a Babbitt.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- backbiter — to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
- backbites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite.
- backlifts — Plural form of backlift.
- backlight — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- backlists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backlist.
- backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
- backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
- backsight — the sight of a rifle nearer the stock
- bacterial — Bacterial is used to describe things that relate to or are caused by bacteria.
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bacterize — to subject to bacterial action
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium