4-letter words containing i
- bide — to continue in a certain place or state; stay
- bidi — (in India) an inexpensive cigarette, locally produced usually from cut tobacco rolled in leaf.
- bids — to command; order; direct: to bid them depart.
- biel — a town in NW Switzerland, on Lake Biel. Pop: 48 655 (2000)
- bien — well
- bier — a platform or stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse rests before burial
- biff — If you biff someone, you hit them with your fist.
- biga — a chariot drawn by two horses
- bigg — a type of barley
- bike — A bike is a bicycle or a motorcycle.
- biko — Steven Bantu, known as Steve. 1946–77, Black South African civil rights leader: founder of the South African Students Organization. His death in police custody caused worldwide concern
- bile — Bile is a liquid produced by your liver which helps you to digest fat.
- bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
- bill — A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
- bima — a platform in a synagogue holding the reading table used when chanting or reading portions of the Torah and the Prophets.
- bin- — bi-1
- bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
- bine — the climbing or twining stem of any of various plants, such as the woodbine or bindweed
- bing — a heap or pile, esp of spoil from a mine
- bini — Edo
- bink — a bench or ledge to sit on
- bins — a pair of glasses
- bint — a girl or woman
- bio- — Bio- is used at the beginning of nouns and adjectives that refer to life or to the study of living things.
- biog — biography.
- bion — fl. 2d cent. b.c.; Gr. pastoral poet
- bior — An early system on UNIVAC I or II.
- bios — Basic Input Output System: the built-in software which controls the primary functions of a PC
- bipm — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
- bips — Billion (10^9) instructions per second. Same as GIPS.
- bird — A bird is a creature with feathers and wings. Female birds lay eggs. Most birds can fly.
- biri — bidi.
- birk — a birch tree
- birl — to spin; twirl
- biro — A Biro is a pen with a small metal ball at its tip which transfers the ink onto the paper.
- birr — to make or cause to make a whirring sound
- bis- — bi-1
- bise — a cold dry northerly wind in Switzerland and the neighbouring parts of France and Italy, usually in the spring
- bish — a mistake
- bisk — Biysk
- bist — Built-in Self Test
- bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
- bito — a small tree found growing in Africa and Asia
- bitt — one of a pair of strong posts on the deck of a ship for securing mooring and other lines
- biwa — Lake, the largest lake in Japan, on Honshu, near Kyoto. 260 sq. mi. (673 sq. km).
- bize — a dry, cold wind in France
- blin — singular of blini.
- blip — A blip is a small spot of light, sometimes occurring with a short, high-pitched sound, which flashes on and off regularly on a piece of equipment such as a radar screen.
- blit — Bachelor of Literature
- boil — When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.