11-letter words containing it
- austerities — Plural form of austerity.
- authorities — the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.
- b1 security — Orange Book
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
- baddeleyite — a mineral consisting largely of zirconium dioxide: a source of zirconium. Formula: ZrO2
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- balmorality — an idealization of Scottish traditions and culture
- bananaquits — Plural form of bananaquit.
- bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
- bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
- barbarities — Plural form of barbarity.
- barbitalism — barbiturism.
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- barbiturism — chronic poisoning caused by the excessive use of phenobarbital, secobarbital, or other derivative of barbituric acid.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- bas mitzvah — bat mitzvah
- bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
- bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- biddability — the condition or quality of being biddable
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
- bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
- biscuit tin — an airtight container for storing biscuits in
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.