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14-letter words containing a, b, s, i

  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basic training — Basic training is the training that someone receives when they first join the armed forces.
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • bass guitarist — a player of the bass guitar
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastardisation — Alternative form of bastardization.
  • bastardization — the act of bastardizing
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • batten disease — a rare hereditary disease in which lipids accumulate in the nervous system, leading to mental deterioration, loss of mobility, and blindness that start in early childhood
  • battle cruiser — A battle cruiser is a large fast warship that is lighter than a battleship and moves more easily.
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • battle station — the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.
  • batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
  • bazillionaires — Plural form of bazillionaire.
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
  • bedside manner — A doctor's bedside manner is the way in which they talk to their patients.
  • beggar's-ticks — tick trefoil
  • belisha beacon — a flashing light in an orange globe mounted on a post, indicating a pedestrian crossing on a road
  • belletristical — relating to the fine arts
  • bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
  • belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
  • beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
  • berberidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Berberidaceae, a mainly N temperate family of flowering plants (mostly shrubs), including barberry and barrenwort
  • berkner island — an island in Antarctica, in the S Weddell Sea, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ice Shelf.
  • bezier surface — (graphics)   A surface defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics. A surface P(u, v), where u and v vary orthogonally from 0 to 1 from one edge of the surface to the other, is defined by a set of (n+1)*(m+1) "control points" (X(i, j), Y(i, j), Z(i, j)) for i = 0 to n, j = 0 to m.
  • biceps brachii — See under biceps.
  • bicuspid valve — mitral valve
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bilious attack — a group of symptoms consisting of headache, abdominal pain, and constipation
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • biomathematics — the study of the application of mathematics to biology
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • biostatistical — relating to biostatistics
  • biosystematics — the study of the variation and evolution of a population of organisms in relation to their taxonomic classification
  • biosystematist — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biosystematics
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