10-letter words containing a, c, l, s
- associable — that can be associated or connected in the mind
- astacology — the investigation and analysis of crayfish
- attic salt — refined incisive wit
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- axoplasmic — of or relating to the axoplasm
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backblocks — bush or remote farming area far distant from city amenities
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backlashes — Plural form of backlash.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplash — any tiled area by, for example, a sink, cooker or bath to prevent damage to a wall by food or water splashes
- 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.
- bailiwicks — Plural form of bailiwick.
- balaclavas — Plural form of balaclava.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- 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.
- 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
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- basic salt — a salt formed by the partial neutralization of a base.
- basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- basilicata — a region of S Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto. Capital: Potenza. Pop: 596 821 (2003 est). Area: 9985 sq km (3855 sq miles)
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- beachballs — Plural form of beachball.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- bioclastic — (of deposits, esp limestones) derived from shell fragments or similar organic remains
- bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black bass — any of several predatory North American percoid freshwater game fishes of the genus Micropterus: family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- black caps — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
- black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
- black mass — a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves