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12-letter words containing be

  • bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
  • bernese alps — a mountain range in SW Switzerland, the N central part of the Alps. Highest peak: Finsteraarhorn, 4274 m (14 022 ft)
  • bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
  • bernina pass — a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)
  • berwickshire — (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area
  • beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
  • besom pocket — an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
  • besottedness — the state of being besotted
  • bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
  • best in show — an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
  • beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
  • beta orionis — Rigel
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
  • betacarotene — the most important form of the plant pigment carotene, which occurs in milk, vegetables, and other foods and, when eaten by man and animals, is converted in the body to vitamin A
  • betanaphthol — a colorless, crystalline isomer of naphthol, C10H8O, used as an antiseptic and parasiticide
  • betel pepper — a tropical Asiatic climbing plant (Piper betle) of the pepper family
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
  • betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
  • betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
  • betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
  • between-deck — 'tween deck.
  • betweenbrain — the posterior part of the forebrain
  • betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
  • betws-y-coed — a village in N Wales, in Conwy county borough, on the River Conwy: noted for its scenery. Pop: 534 (2001)
  • beurre blanc — an emulsion of cold butter in a white wine or vinegar and shallot reduction
  • beurre fondu — melted butter.
  • beurre manie — butterpaste.
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • bevel square — a woodworker's square with an adjustable arm that can be set to mark out an angle or to check the slope of a surface
  • bewilderedly — in a bewildered manner
  • bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
  • beyond doubt — You say that something is beyond doubt or beyond reasonable doubt when you are certain that it is true and it cannot be contradicted or disproved.
  • beyond price — invaluable or priceless
  • beyond reach — inaccessible
  • bezier curve — (graphics)   A type of curve defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics. A curve with coordinates P(u), where u varies from 0 at one end of the curve to 1 at the other, is defined by a set of n+1 "control points" (X(i), Y(i), Z(i)) for i = 0 to n. P(u) = Sum i=0..n [(X(i), Y(i), Z(i)) * B(i, n, u)] B(i, n, u) = C(n, i) * u^i * (1-u)^(n-i) C(n, i) = n!/i!/(n-i)! A Bezier curve (or surface) is defined by its control points, which makes it invariant under any affine mapping (translation, rotation, parallel projection), and thus even under a change in the axis system. You need only to transform the control points and then compute the new curve. The control polygon defined by the points is itself affine invariant. Bezier curves also have the variation-diminishing property. This makes them easier to split compared to other types of curve such as Hermite or B-spline. Other important properties are multiple values, global and local control, versatility, and order of continuity.
  • bicycle bell — a bell attached to a bicycle, used to warn others on the road
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
  • black beetle — another name for the oriental cockroach
  • board member — a member of board of directors
  • bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
  • bonus number — (in the National Lottery) a number announced after the normal six numbers which influences the amount of prize money paid
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