10-letter words containing a, b, s, e
- adverbials — Plural form of adverbial.
- adviseable — Alternative spelling of advisable.
- aerobatics — Aerobatics are skilful displays of flying, usually to entertain people watching from the ground.
- aerobiosis — life in the presence of oxygen
- ahorseback — on horseback
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- albescence — becoming white; whitish.
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
- allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
- amazeballs — an expression of enthusiastic approval
- amberjacks — Plural form of amberjack.
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- amoebiasis — infection, esp of the intestines, caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- analysable — Alternative spelling of analyzable.
- anklebones — Plural form of anklebone.
- answerable — If you are answerable to someone, you have to report to them and explain your actions.
- answerback — a reply or answering message from a computer or other electronic device, as by means of teletypewriter or simulated voice.
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- appeasable — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- arabesqued — decorated with arabesques
- arabesques — Plural form of arabesque.
- arbalester — a soldier carrying an arbalest
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- arboresque — a tree.
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- arquebuses — Plural form of arquebuse.
- arrestable — An arrestable offence is an offence that you can be arrested for.
- arse about — to play the fool; act stupidly, esp in an irritating manner
- asbestosis — inflammation of the lungs resulting from chronic inhalation of asbestos particles
- asbjornsen — Peter Christen [pey-tuh r kris-tuh n] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈkrɪs tən/ (Show IPA), 1812–85, Norwegian naturalist and folklorist.
- ascendable — having the ability to be ascended
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.