10-letter words containing a, b, s, i
- babesiosis — a tick-borne disease of domesticated and wild mammals as well as humans, caused by a protozoan of the genera Babesia and characterized by fever, anaemia, jaundice, and in severe cases leading to death
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- baby split — a split in which the two and seven pins or the three and ten pins remain standing.
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- bagassosis — an allergic response to the dust of bagasse, causing breathlessness and fever
- bahuvrihis — Plural form of bahuvrihi.
- bailieship — the office or district of a bailie
- bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
- bajillions — Plural form of bajillion.
- balalaikas — Plural form of balalaika.
- balashikha — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe: a NE suburb of Moscow.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- balloonist — A balloonist is a person who flies a hot-air balloon.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- ballsiness — daring; courage
- balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
- balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bandishing — Present participle of bandish.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bandwidths — Plural form of bandwidth.
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bannisters — a baluster.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- barasingha — Rucervus duvaucelii, the swamp deer.
- barbarians — Plural form of barbarian.
- barbarious — (dated, before 20th century, now literary) barbarous, barbaric.