10-letter words containing a, b, e, r
- bernadette — a feminine name
- bernadotte — Folke (ˈfɔlke), Count. 1895–1948, Swedish diplomat, noted for his work with the Red Cross during World War II and as United Nations mediator in Palestine (1948). He was assassinated by Jewish terrorists
- bernardine — a monk of one of the reformed and stricter branches of the Cistercian order
- bes antler — bay antler.
- bessarabia — a region in E Europe, mostly in Moldova and Ukraine: long disputed by the Turks and Russians; a province of Romania from 1918 until 1940. Area: about 44 300 sq km (17 100 sq miles)
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- beta brass — an alloy consisting of nearly equal proportions of copper and zinc.
- beta fiber — a nonflammable glass fiber made into fabrics, insulation, etc.
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
- bez antler — bay antler
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- biliterate — able to read and write in two languages.
- billbergia — any bromeliad of the tropical American genus Billbergia, having stiff leaves and flowers with showy, variously colored bracts.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birth name — the surname given a person at birth.
- birth rate — The birth rate in a place is the number of babies born there for every 1000 people during a particular period of time.
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- birthrates — birthrate
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- bitartrate — (not in technical usage) a salt or ester of tartaric acid containing the monovalent group -HC4H4O6 or the ion HC4H4O6–
- bitterbark — an Australian tree, Alstonia constricta, with bitter-tasting bark that is used in preparing tonic medicines
- bizarrerie — the quality of being bizarre
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black bear — the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) that lives in forests and feeds mainly on roots and berries