10-letter words containing i, s, r, a
- awkwardish — slightly awkward
- axillaries — Anatomy, Ornithology. pertaining to the axilla.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- bahuvrihis — Plural form of bahuvrihi.
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bannisters — a baluster.
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- barasingha — Rucervus duvaucelii, the swamp deer.
- barbarians — Plural form of barbarian.
- barbarious — (dated, before 20th century, now literary) barbarous, barbaric.
- barbarisms — Plural form of barbarism.
- barberries — Plural form of barberry.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- bariatrics — the study of obesity and its treatment
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- baroscopic — Relating to, or determined by, the baroscope.
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- barristers — Plural form of barrister.
- bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
- base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
- baseliners — Plural form of baseliner.
- basic rate — the standard or lowest level on a scale of money payable, esp in taxation
- bast fiber — bast (def 2).
- bast-fiber — Botany. phloem.
- bastardise — to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
- bastardism — the condition of being illegitimate
- bastardize — to debase; corrupt
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- bayberries — Plural form of bayberry.
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- 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
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- 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)
- 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)
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.