10-letter words containing b, a, n, s
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amphibians — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, comprising frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians, the larvae being typically aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adults being typically semiterrestrial, breathing by lungs and through the moist, glandular skin.
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anabaptism — a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- analysable — Alternative spelling of analyzable.
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- anklebones — Plural form of anklebone.
- answerable — If you are answerable to someone, you have to report to them and explain your actions.
- answerback — a reply or answering message from a computer or other electronic device, as by means of teletypewriter or simulated voice.
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- asbjornsen — Peter Christen [pey-tuh r kris-tuh n] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈkrɪs tən/ (Show IPA), 1812–85, Norwegian naturalist and folklorist.
- ascendable — having the ability to be ascended
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- ash blonde — pale, grayish blond: ash-blond hair.
- asking bid — a conventional bid by which a bidder asks for specific information about the strength of his or her partner's hand in a given suit.
- assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
- assignable — capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
- assiniboin — a member of a Siouan people of northeastern Montana and adjacent parts of Canada.
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athabaskan — a family of North American Indian languages, including Chipewyan, Hupa, and Navajo
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- baby bonus — family allowance
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- badakhshan — a former province in NE Afghanistan.
- bajillions — Plural form of bajillion.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- balloonist — A balloonist is a person who flies a hot-air balloon.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- ballsiness — daring; courage
- 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.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bandishing — Present participle of bandish.