9-letter words containing t
- bite back — If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say, you stop yourself from expressing it.
- bite-size — small enough to fit in the mouth or be consumed in one or two bites: bite-size candies.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
- bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically
- bitterest — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitterish — (of taste) quite bitter
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- bitty box — (abuse) (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.
- bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts
- bivariate — (of a distribution) involving two random variables, not necessarily independent of one another
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- black art — black magic
- black hat — a computer hacker who carries out illegal malicious hacking work
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
- black rat — a common rat, Rattus rattus: a household pest that has spread from its native Asia to all countries
- black rot — any of various plant diseases of fruits and vegetables, producing blackening, rotting, and shrivelling and caused by bacteria (including Xanthomonas campestris) and fungi (such as Physalospora malorum)
- black tar — black heroin.
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
- blacktail — a variety of mule deer having a black tail
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- blastemal — of or relating to blastema
- blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
- blatantly — Blatantly is used to add emphasis when you are describing states or situations which you think are bad.
- blatherer — someone who blathers
- blavatsky — Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blethered — weary
- bletherer — someone who blathers
- blighting — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blind gut — cecum
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blitz can — Military. jerry can (def 1).
- blitz-can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.