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8-letter words starting with bi

  • bird dog — a dog used or trained to retrieve game birds after they are shot
  • bird flu — Bird flu is a virus which can be transmitted from chickens, ducks, and other birds to people.
  • bird-dog — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
  • birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
  • birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
  • birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
  • birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
  • birdfeed — food for birds
  • birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
  • birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
  • birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
  • birdseed — Birdseed is seeds that you give to birds as food.
  • birdseye — Clarence1886-1956; U.S. inventor of methods of quick-freezing foods
  • birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
  • birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
  • birdwing — a type of large, tropical butterfly
  • birkbeck — George. 1776–1841, British educationalist, who helped to establish vocational training for working men: founder and first president of the London Mechanics Institute (1824), which later became Birkbeck College
  • birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
  • birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
  • birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
  • biscotti — hard, plain, bar-shaped cookies containing almonds or hazelnuts
  • biscotto — a thin Italian biscuit
  • biscuity — tasting or smelling of biscuit
  • bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
  • biserial — in two rows
  • bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
  • bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
  • bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
  • bistable — having two stable states
  • bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
  • bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
  • bit mask — (programming)   A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
  • bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
  • bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
  • bitbrace — brace (def 3).
  • bitchery — spiteful talk
  • bitchin' — wonderful or excellent
  • bitching — a female dog: The bitch won first place in the sporting dogs category.
  • biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
  • bitewing — a dental X-ray film
  • bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
  • bitingly — nipping; smarting; keen: biting cold; a biting sensation on the tongue.
  • bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
  • bittered — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
  • bitterly — You use bitterly when you are describing an attitude which involves strong, unpleasant emotions such as anger or dislike.
  • biunique — relating to a one-to-one correspondence
  • bivalent — (of homologous chromosomes) associated together in pairs
  • biweekly — A biweekly event or publication happens or appears once every two weeks.
  • biyearly — every two years; biennial or biennially
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