8-letter words containing a, r, i, s
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- babirusa — a wild pig, Babyrousa babyrussa, inhabiting marshy forests in Indonesia. It has an almost hairless wrinkled skin and enormous curved canine teeth
- bairnish — childish
- bakeries — Plural form of bakery.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- balisaur — an Indian animal, Arctonyx collaris, resembling a badger
- ballsier — Comparative form of ballsy.
- banisher — someone who or something which banishes
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barflies — Plural form of barfly.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- baristas — Plural form of barista.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- barriers — anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like: People may pass through the barrier only when their train is announced.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- barrista — Misspelling of barista.
- bas-rhin — a department of NE France in Alsace region. Capital: Strasbourg. Pop: 1 052 698 (2003 est). Area: 4793 sq km (1869 sq miles)
- basifier — anything that makes something alkaline
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- basilary — Basilar.
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- bierkase — a semisoft, strong white cow's-milk cheese that originated in Germany, and is eaten especially with beer.
- binaries — binary file
- binarism — the state of being binary
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- biserial — in two rows
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bozzaris — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).