10-letter words containing a, p, e, r
- baseperson — (baseball, softball) A fielder (of either gender) positioned near a base.
- bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
- bear's-paw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
- bedspreads — Plural form of bedspread.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- 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
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- 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
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- break step — to cease to march in step
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- burst page — banner
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- 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)
- camelopard — giraffe
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
- can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
- cape verde — a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland