7-letter words containing bi
- bisutun — Behistun.
- bit key — a key having a wing bit for moving a leverlike tumbler of a lock.
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- bitable — which can be bitten
- bitchen — marvelous; wonderful.
- bitcoin — a system of open source peer-to-peer software for the creation and exchange of (payment in) a certain type of cryptocurrency; the first such system to be fully functional
- bite me — expressing contempt
- bitless — without a (horse's) bit
- bitonal — consisting of black and white tones
- bittern — any wading bird of the genera Ixobrychus and Botaurus, related and similar to the herons but with shorter legs and neck, a stouter body, and a booming call: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
- bitters — bitter-tasting spirits of varying alcoholic content flavoured with plant extracts
- bitting — Also called bollard. a strong post of wood or iron projecting, usually in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc.
- bittock — a bit
- bitumed — covered with bitumen
- bitumen — Bitumen is a black sticky substance which is obtained from tar or petrol and is used in making roads.
- bitwise — (programming) A bitwise operator treats its operands as a vector of bits rather than a single number. Boolean bitwise operators combine bit N of each operand using a Boolean function (NOT, AND, OR, XOR) to produce bit N of the result. For example, a bitwise AND operator ("&" in C) would evaluate 13 & 9 as (binary) 1101 & 1001 = 1001 = 9, whereas, the logical AND, (C "&&") would evaluate 13 && 9 as TRUE && TRUE = TRUE = 1. In some languages, e.g. Acorn's BASIC V, the same operators are used for both bitwise and logical operations. This usually works except when applying NOT to a value x which is neither 0 (false) nor -1 (true), in which case both x and (NOT x) will be non-zero and thus treated as TRUE. Other operations at the bit level, which are not normally described as "bitwise" include shift and rotate.
- bivalve — any marine or freshwater mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (formerly Bivalvia or Lamellibranchia), having a laterally compressed body, a shell consisting of two hinged valves, and gills for respiration. The group includes clams, cockles, oysters, and mussels
- bivinyl — butadiene.
- bivious — with a choice of two different ways
- bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
- bizarre — Something that is bizarre is very odd and strange.
- bizarro — bizarre
- bizerte — a port in N Tunisia, on the Mediterranean at the canalized outlet of Lake Bizerte. Pop: 118 000 (2005 est)
- biznaga — any of several thorny cactuses of the genera Echinocactus, Ferocactus, and Astrophytum of the southwestern U.S.
- bizonal — of or relating to two administrative zones
- bobbies — a male given name, form of Robert.
- bobbing — a tap; light blow.
- bobbins — matter that is worthless or of inferior quality
- bobbish — cheerful, in good health and mood
- bobbitt — to cut off the penis of
- bobigny — a department in N France. 91 sq. mi. (236 sq. km). Capital: Bobigny.
- bombing — a concerted and persistent use of bombs against a target
- boobies — a stupid person; dunce.
- boobing — a stupid person; fool; dunce.
- boobird — a person who habitually criticizes or jeers
- boobish — stupid, doltish
- bribing — money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc.: The motorist offered the arresting officer a bribe to let him go.
- bubinga — the tree Guibourtia demeusui, native to tropical African regions
- cabbies — Plural form of cabby.
- cabbing — a taxicab.
- cabildo — a municipal council, or a town hall, in Latin America
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cabinda — an exclave of Angola, separated from the rest of the country by part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pop: about 300 000 (2002 est). Area: 7270 sq km (2807 sq miles)
- cabined — a small house or cottage, usually of simple design and construction: He was born in a cabin built of rough logs.
- cabinet — A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem