10-letter words containing a, e, r, i
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- birkenhead — a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birth name — the surname given a person at birth.
- birth rate — The birth rate in a place is the number of babies born there for every 1000 people during a particular period of time.
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- birthrates — birthrate
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- bitartrate — (not in technical usage) a salt or ester of tartaric acid containing the monovalent group -HC4H4O6 or the ion HC4H4O6–
- bitterbark — an Australian tree, Alstonia constricta, with bitter-tasting bark that is used in preparing tonic medicines
- bizarrerie — the quality of being bizarre
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- bomb aimer — a person whose job is to aim a bomb to be dropped from an aircraft
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- branchiate — having gills.
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia