10-letter words containing a, n, b, s, e
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- band shell — an outdoor platform for concerts, having a concave, nearly hemispherical back serving as a sounding board
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- bandoneons — Plural form of bandoneon.
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bannisters — a baluster.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- banquettes — Plural form of banquette.
- bare bones — The bare bones of something are its most basic parts or details.
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- baronesses — Plural form of baroness.
- baronetess — the wife of a baronet
- barpersons — Plural form of barperson.
- barrenness — not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman.
- bartenders — Plural form of bartender.
- baseburner — a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber
- basel-land — a demicanton in N Switzerland. 165 sq. mi. (425 sq. km). Capital: Liestal.
- baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
- baseperson — (baseball, softball) A fielder (of either gender) positioned near a base.
- baserunner — a baseball player in the act of running around bases
- bassinette — Alternative spelling of bassinet.
- bastnasite — (mineral) A light brown mineral that is a source of many rare earth elements.
- bath stone — a kind of limestone used as a building material, esp at Bath in England
- battements — Plural form of battement.
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- bean feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- bean goose — a grey goose, Anser fabalis
- bean-feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- beanfeasts — Plural form of beanfeast.
- beanstalks — Plural form of beanstalk.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- beni hasan — a village in central Egypt, on the Nile, with cliff-cut tombs dating from 2000 bc
- bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- bering sea — a part of the N Pacific Ocean, between NE Siberia and Alaska. Area: about 2 275 000 sq km (878 000 sq miles)
- bes antler — bay antler.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels