10-letter words containing i, b, e, r, s
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- benefiters — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- 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)
- berkshires — Also called Berks [burks; British bahrks] /bɜrks; British bɑrks/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 485 sq. mi. (1255 sq. km).
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bescribble — to cover with scribbles
- besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- 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)
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- big sister — an elder sister.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
- bioreserve — an area preserving wildlife, landforms, and waterways while providing appropriate public use and enjoyment of a natural environment.
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- bird's-eye — seen or photographed from high above
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birthrates — birthrate
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme