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8-letter words that end in t

  • barrault — Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime
  • barrulet — a narrow band across a heraldic shield, taking up one twentieth of the shield's height
  • bartlett — the Williams pear, used esp in the US and generally of tinned pears
  • base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
  • basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
  • basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
  • bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
  • bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
  • basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
  • bassinet — A bassinet is a small bed for a baby that is like a basket.
  • batement — reduction; abatement
  • bath mat — a mat or washable rug used to stand on when entering or leaving a bath.
  • bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
  • bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
  • bay salt — salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.
  • baysmelt — topsmelt.
  • be toast — If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed.
  • bean pot — a heavy, covered crockery or metal pot, suitable for the slow cooking of beans, stews, etc.
  • bear out — If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
  • bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
  • beat out — If you beat out sounds on a drum or similar instrument, you make the sounds by hitting the instrument.
  • beat-out — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
  • beaufort — Henry. ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)
  • beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
  • beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
  • becarpet — to lay carpet on
  • bed bolt — a bolt on a bed for attaching a side rail to the head or foot.
  • bed rest — a period of resting in bed
  • bed-rest — a prolonged rest in bed, as in the treatment of an illness.
  • bedlight — a bedlamp.
  • bedquilt — a padded bedcover
  • bedright — a right expected in the marital bed
  • bedsheet — a sheet for a bed
  • beechnut — the small brown triangular edible nut of the beech tree
  • beer gut — A beer gut is the same as a beer belly.
  • beerfest — a beer festival
  • beetroot — Beetroot is a dark red root that is eaten as a vegetable. It is often preserved in vinegar.
  • bejesuit — to convert to Jesuitism
  • beknight — to esteem
  • bellwort — any plant of the North American liliaceous genus Uvularia, having slender bell-shaped yellow flowers
  • belt out — If you belt out a song, you sing or play it very loudly.
  • benedict — Saint. ?480–?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14
  • benefact — to be a benefactor to
  • benfleet — a town in SE England, in S Essex on an inlet of the Thames estuary. Pop: 48 539 (2001)
  • bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • besought — beseech
  • besprent — sprinkled over
  • best fit — (algorithm)   A resource allocation scheme (usually for memory). Best Fit allocates resources in a way that optimises some parameter. Alternative schemes such as first fit or random allocation are likely to be quicker but sub-optimal in use of resources. For example, when allocating a new block of memory from a pool of free blocks (a heap), one might choose the smallest space which is big enough. This would leave larger spaces free to satisfy larger requests and reduce fragmentation of the remaining free space.
  • betelnut — the seed of the betel palm, chewed with betel leaves and lime by people in S and SE Asia as a digestive stimulant and narcotic
  • big beat — an eclectic type of dance music in which heavy beats and samples are layered over the songs or instrumental tracks of other performers or bands
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