10-letter words containing b, a, s
- all thumbs — clumsy
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
- allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
- amazeballs — an expression of enthusiastic approval
- ambassador — An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
- amberjacks — Plural form of amberjack.
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- ambush bug — any of several carnivorous bugs of the family Phymatidae, inhabiting tropical areas in the Americas and Asia, that lie concealed in flowers to prey on insects.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- ambystomid — Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- amoebiasis — infection, esp of the intestines, caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- 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.
- amphibious — In an amphibious military operation, army and navy forces attack a place from the sea.
- 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
- appeasable — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- aquabatics — gymnastic feats performed in water
- arabesqued — decorated with arabesques
- arabesques — Plural form of arabesque.
- arbalester — a soldier carrying an arbalest
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- arboresque — a tree.
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- arbuscular — relating to, or similar to, arbuscles
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- arquebuses — Plural form of arquebuse.
- arrestable — An arrestable offence is an offence that you can be arrested for.
- arse about — to play the fool; act stupidly, esp in an irritating manner