11-letter words containing t, i, s
- battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- behaviorist — 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.
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- besiegement — the state of being besieged
- best friend — a dearest friend
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biologistic — relating to biologism
- biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- biscuit tin — an airtight container for storing biscuits in
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blastematic — blastemal
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.