8-letter words containing bit
- habitues — Plural form of habitu\u00e9.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- high bit — (Or "high-order bit") The most significant bit in a byte. See also meta bit, hobbit, dread high bit disease.
- imbitter — embitter.
- inhabits — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhibits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inhibit.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- kibitkas — Plural form of kibitka.
- kibitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibitz.
- kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
- kibitzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kibitz.
- kilobits — Plural form of kilobit.
- lovebite — Alternative spelling of love bite.
- lubitsch — Ernst [urnst;; German ernst] /ɜrnst;; German ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1892–1947, German film director and producer, in the U.S. after 1922.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- meta bit — (character) The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- orbitary — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- orbiteer — to climb (a mountain) in a circular fashion as opposed to scaling.
- orbiters — Plural form of orbiter.
- orbiting — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- outbitch — to bitch more than or better than
- overbite — occlusion in which the upper incisor teeth overlap the lower ones.
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
- rabbiter — a person who traps and sells rabbits
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- rabbitry — a collection of rabbits.
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.
- sorbitic — relating to sorbite
- sorbitol — a white, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in cherries, plums, pears, seaweed, and many berries, obtained by the breakdown of dextrose and used as a sugar substitute for diabetics and in the manufacture of vitamin C, synthetic resins, candy, varnishes, etc.; sorbol.
- stilbite — a white-to-brown or red zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum, occurring in sheaflike aggregates of crystals and in radiated masses.
- subitise — to perceive at a glance the number of items presented, the limit for humans being about seven.
- subitize — to perceive at a glance the number of items presented, the limit for humans being about seven.
- tax bite — an amount of money deducted from your income in the form of tax
- two bits — twenty-five cents.
- unbitted — not bitted or bridled.
- unbitten — a past participle of bite.
- unbitter — not bitter; not having or expressing bitterness
- wing bit — a flat bit projecting to one side near the end of a key.