10-letter words containing a, i, r, p
- barrow pit — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipartisan — Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups.
- bipinnaria — a free-swimming starfish larva
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
- caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capriccios — Plural form of capriccio.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- captivator — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.