Phrase Hound found 46 phrases and 32 compound words that contain bites. The most common are listed below. Open bites in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 46
- sound bitesplural of sound bite: An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
- angel bitesA pair of lip piercings, like snakebites but above the lips rather than below.
- cross-bitesplural of cross-bite: An occlusal irregularity where a tooth (or teeth) has a more buccal or lingual position than its corresponding antagonist tooth in the upper or lower arcade.
- love bitesplural of love bite: A bruise on the skin caused by someone sucking or biting it, usually with sexual intent.
- snake-bitesplural of snake-bite: The bite of a snake.
- tick bitesplural of tick bite: A bite from a tick that can pass various illnesses to the bitten host.
- bites the bulletthird-person singular simple present indicative of bite the bullet: To accept a negative aspect of a situation in order to proceed.
- bites the curbthird-person singular simple present indicative of bite the curb: To be curb stomped.
- bites the dustthird-person singular simple present indicative of bite the dust: To die.
- mosquito bitesplural of mosquito bite: A small breast of a woman.
- stork bitesplural of stork bite: nevus flammeus nuchae
- another one bites the dustAnother one (usually person) has fallen victim to a series of deaths or other eliminations from a context (implies an ongoing tragedy of loss after loss, often tongue-in-cheek).
- bites the big onethird-person singular simple present indicative of bite the big one: To die.
- back-bitesthird-person singular simple present indicative of back-bite: To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
- bee bitesplural of bee bite: A hypodermic puncture from a bee, resulting in envenomation and often involving the penetration and lodging of the stinger.
- bites backthird-person singular simple present indicative of bite back: To retaliate; to give a sharp retort.
- bites downthird-person singular simple present indicative of bite down: To bite (something) very hard and usually for a purpose (like to hold it in one's mouth).
- bites offthird-person singular simple present indicative of bite off: To bite so hard as to remove something from its source.
- claiming bitesplural of claiming bite: In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.
- cow bitesplural of cow bite: A large pinch performed with the entire hand, squeezing everything between thumb and fingers rather than just using the fingertips.
- dry bitesplural of dry bite: A bite by a venomous animal in which no venom is released.
- fight bitesplural of fight bite: A laceration on the hand, especially after delivering a punch or blow inside someone else's mouth, that results from a defensive bite.
- mating bitesplural of mating bite: A bite performed during copulation in certain species.
- monkey bitesplural of monkey bite: A bruise on the skin caused by someone sucking or biting it, usually with sexual intent.
- open bitesplural of open bite: A configuration of a mouth wherein the front top teeth are separated vertically from the front bottom teeth even while the back top teeth are resting directly upon the back bottom teeth.
Compound words 32
- soundbitesplural of soundbite: An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
- Jacobitesplural of Jacobite: A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
- Moabitesplural of Moabite: A native or inhabitant of Moab.
- snakebitesplural of snakebite: The bite of a snake.
- afterbitesplural of afterbite: Something that lingers after it is bitten, especially a smatch or flavour; aftertaste.
- Ayubitesplural of Ayubite: Of or pertaining to the Ayyubid dynasty, a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origin founded by Saladin and centred in Egypt.
- backbitesthird-person singular simple present indicative of backbite: To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
- Barnabitesplural of Barnabite: A member of a religious order originally associated with the church of St. Barnabas in Milan.
- checkbitesplural of checkbite: An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth
- columbitesplural of columbite: A black mineral that is a mixed iron and manganese niobate and tantalate, and is the main ore of niobium and tantalum.