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10-letter words containing e, s, a

  • bell glass — a bell-shaped glass jar or cover for protecting delicate instruments, bric-a-brac, or the like, or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.
  • belly-slam — belly-flop.
  • belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
  • bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
  • belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
  • belshazzar — 6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
  • bench seat — a seat for more than one person
  • beni hasan — a village in central Egypt, on the Nile, with cliff-cut tombs dating from 2000 bc
  • bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
  • benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
  • bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • bering sea — a part of the N Pacific Ocean, between NE Siberia and Alaska. Area: about 2 275 000 sq km (878 000 sq miles)
  • bes antler — bay antler.
  • bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
  • bessarabia — a region in E Europe, mostly in Moldova and Ukraine: long disputed by the Turks and Russians; a province of Romania from 1918 until 1940. Area: about 44 300 sq km (17 100 sq miles)
  • bestialism — the state of beasts
  • bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
  • bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
  • bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • beta brass — an alloy consisting of nearly equal proportions of copper and zinc.
  • beta sheet — a secondary structure occurring in many proteins, consisting of several polypeptide chains running in parallel or alternating directions and joined by intermolecular hydrogen bonds, creating a flexible, strong arrangement.
  • beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
  • beta waves — a pattern of high-frequency brain waves (beta waves) observed in normal persons upon sensory stimulation, especially with light, or when they are engaging in purposeful mental activity.
  • betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • bienseance — good breeding; decorum
  • bill gates — (person)   William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
  • birthrates — birthrate
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
  • black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
  • black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
  • black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
  • blacksnake — any of several Old World black venomous elapid snakes, esp Pseudechis porphyriacus (Australian blacksnake)
  • blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
  • blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
  • blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
  • blandisher — someone who blandishes
  • blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.
  • blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
  • blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
  • blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
  • blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
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