10-letter words containing b, i, r, t
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- microbiota — the microorganisms, both flora and fauna, that inhabit a particular region, when considered collectively.
- microburst — an intense, localized downdraft of air that spreads on the ground, causing rapid changes in wind direction and speed; a localized downburst.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- migratable — Capable of migrating.
- mirabilite — a decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 ⋅10H 2 O.
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- montbretia — a widely cultivated plant of the African iridaceous genus Crocosmia, a cross between C. aurea and C. pottsii, with ornamental orange or yellow flowers, grown mostly as pot plants
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- multilobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- nail-biter — a person who bites his or her nails, especially habitually.
- night robe — nightgown.
- night-bird — a bird which is active at night, such as an owl, nightingale, etc
- obduration — the process of becoming or the state of being obdurate, intractable and indifferent
- oberration — (obsolete) A wandering about.
- obituaries — Plural form of obituary.
- obituarist — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- objuration — (rare) A firm binding by oath.
- obligators — Plural form of obligator.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- obliterans — Producing obstruction due to inflammation and fibrosis.
- obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
- obrogation — the annulment or alteration of a law by the enactment of a new one.
- obstetrics — the branch of medical science concerned with childbirth and caring for and treating women in or in connection with childbirth. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- obstrusive — Misspelling of obtrusive.
- obturation — to stop up; close.
- on liberty — a treatise (1859) by John Stuart Mill on the rights of the individual within the state.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- orthoboric — (chemistry) boric (especially when compared with other oxyacid species of boron).
- outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
- outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
- overbright — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- parabiotic — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- parity bit — (storage, communications) An extra bit added to a byte or word to reveal errors. See parity.
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
- pilot bird — a warbler of forest floors in SE Australia, Pycnoptilus floccosus, named from its alleged habit of accompanying the superb lyrebird
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- port blair — a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- probiotics — a therapeutic treatment involving the ingestion of harmless bacteria
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics