10-letter words containing a, b, s, i
- 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.
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- 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.
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- ambystomid — Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.
- amoebiasis — infection, esp of the intestines, caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- amphibians — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, comprising frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians, the larvae being typically aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adults being typically semiterrestrial, breathing by lungs and through the moist, glandular skin.
- amphibious — In an amphibious military operation, army and navy forces attack a place from the sea.
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anabaptism — a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- 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.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- aquabatics — gymnastic feats performed in water
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- asbestosis — inflammation of the lungs resulting from chronic inhalation of asbestos particles
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- ascribable — to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- asking bid — a conventional bid by which a bidder asks for specific information about the strength of his or her partner's hand in a given suit.
- assailable — to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
- assemblies — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
- assibilate — (of a speech sound) to be changed into a sibilant
- assignable — capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
- assiniboin — a member of a Siouan people of northeastern Montana and adjacent parts of Canada.
- associable — that can be associated or connected in the mind
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- attributes — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- audiobooks — Plural form of audiobook.
- babesiasis — any of several tick-borne diseases of cattle, dogs, horses, sheep, and swine, caused by a babesia protozoan and characterized by fever and languor.