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9-letter words containing t, i, b

  • britisher — In American English or old-fashioned British English, British people are sometimes informally referred to as Britishers.
  • britishes — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
  • brittling — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
  • brittonic — Brythonic
  • broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
  • bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
  • bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
  • brominate — to treat or react with bromine
  • bronxitesthe, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
  • brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
  • brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
  • brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
  • brutelike — beastlike, brutish
  • brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
  • bucuresti — Bucharest
  • bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
  • budgeting — financial planning
  • buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
  • bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
  • bug light — a yellow light bulb, used mainly outdoors, that does not attract insects.
  • bulb mite — a widespread mite, Rhizaglophus eclinops, that tunnels in the bulbs of lilies and other plants
  • bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
  • bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
  • bullfight — A bullfight is a public entertainment in which people fight and kill bulls. Bullfights take place in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
  • bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
  • buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
  • busticate — to break
  • bustiness — the state of being busty
  • busy-wait — (programming)   To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
  • butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
  • buteonine — of or relating to hawks
  • buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
  • buthelezi — Mangosouthu Gatsha (ˌmæŋɡəʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə), known as Chief Buthelezi. born 1928, Zulu leader, chief minister of the KwaZulu territory of South Africa from 1970 until its abolition in 1994; founder of the Inkatha movement and advocate of Zulu autonomy; minister of home affairs (1994–2004)
  • butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
  • butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
  • buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
  • buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
  • buttinsky — a busybody
  • by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
  • by weight — as determined by weighing
  • bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
  • byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
  • byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
  • cabbalist — cabala.
  • cabinetry — cabinets collectively
  • cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
  • cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
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