10-letter words containing i, b, s
- beautifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beautify.
- beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- bed-sitter — a combination bedroom and sitting room.
- bedsitting — as in bedsitting room
- bedsprings — Plural form of bedspring.
- beetmister — a help in need
- beginnings — the early stages; the first signs
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- beliefless — having no faith or belief
- 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
- belle isle — an island in the Atlantic, at the N entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle, between Labrador and Newfoundland. Area: about 39 sq km (15 sq miles)
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- beltsville — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- benefiters — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- beni hasan — a village in central Egypt, on the Nile, with cliff-cut tombs dating from 2000 bc
- 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
- 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
- beseeching — A beseeching expression, gesture, or tone of voice suggests that the person who has or makes it very much wants someone to do something.
- 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)
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
- bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
- bibliotics — the scientific study of handwriting, or written documents, for investigative purposes
- bibliotist — a person who engages in bibliotics
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bienseance — good breeding; decorum
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- 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.
- big spring — a city in W Texas.
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- 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).
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- binet test — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children