10-letter words containing a, b, t, e, r
- arbitrager — In finance, an arbitrager is someone who buys currencies, securities, or commodities on one country's market in order to make money by immediately selling them at a profit on another country's market.
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrated — to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- arborvitae — any of a number of N. American or Far Eastern evergreen conifers, belonging chiefly to the genus Thuja
- arbutamine — Lb pharmaceutical drug A cardiac stimulant drug.
- 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
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- assertable — having the ability to be affirmed or professed or deserving of affirmation
- astrobleme — a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact
- astrolabes — Plural form of astrolabe.
- at liberty — free, unoccupied, or unrestricted
- attributed — 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.
- attributer — 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.
- 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.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- b particle — B meson.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtalker — One who backtalks.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bacteremia — the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream
- bacteremic — Of, pertaining to or having bacteremia.
- bacteriol. — bacteriological
- bad breath — halitosis.
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bannerette — a small banner
- bannisters — a baluster.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- bantu beer — a malted drink made from partly fermented and germinated millet
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
- barbellate — (of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- barefooter — One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.