10-letter words containing a, b, i, r
- fireballer — a hard-throwing fastball pitcher.
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebrands — Plural form of firebrand.
- firebreaks — Plural form of firebreak.
- first base — Baseball. the first in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate. the position of the player covering the area of the infield near first base.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- framboesia — yaws.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- gabardines — Plural form of gabardine.
- garibaldis — Plural form of garibaldi.
- gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
- giant crab — a large, deep-water Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi, sometimes measuring 11 feet (3.4 meters) across from claw to claw.
- gilbertian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style or humor of Sir William S. Gilbert.
- glauberite — a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- grabbiness — The quality of being grabby; acquisitive greed.
- gray birch — a small, bushy birch, Betula populifolia, of stony or sandy areas of the eastern U.S., having grayish-white bark and triangular leaves.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
- habilatory — relating to clothes or dressed in clothes
- haidarabad — a former state in S India, now part of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra.
- hairy ball — (topology) A result in topology stating that a continuous vector field on a sphere is always zero somewhere. The name comes from the fact that you can't flatten all the hair on a hairy ball, like a tennis ball, there will always be a tuft somewhere (where the tangential projection of the hair is zero). An immediate corollary to this theorem is that for any continuous map f of the sphere into itself there is a point x such that f(x)=x or f(x) is the antipode of x. Another corollary is that at any moment somewhere on the Earth there is no wind.
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harborside — bordering a harbor.
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- harrisburg — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
- hebraistic — of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.
- herb paris — a European plant, Paris quadrifolia, of the lily family, formerly used in medicine.
- herbalists — Plural form of herbalist.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- herbicidal — Of, or relating to herbicides.
- heriotable — liable for the payment of a heriot
- hibernacle — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hibernated — Simple past tense and past participle of hibernate.
- hibernates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hibernate.
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- high brass — brass containing 65 per cent copper and 35 per cent zinc, used for most applications
- hildebrand — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- hindbrains — Plural form of hindbrain.
- hirability — able to be hired; fit for hiring.