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10-letter words containing i, s, r

  • 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)
  • bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
  • bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
  • 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.
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
  • 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
  • bipartisan — Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups.
  • bird grass — rough bluegrass
  • 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
  • birth sign — the sign of the zodiac through which the sun is passing when a person is born
  • 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
  • birthstool — a specially shaped seat formerly used in childbirth.
  • 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)
  • bishopbird — any African weaverbird of the genus Euplectes (or Pyromelana), the males of which have black plumage marked with red or yellow
  • bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
  • bit string — (programming, data)   An ordered sequence of bits. This is very similar to a bit pattern except that the term "string" suggests an arbitrary length sequence as opposed to a pre-determined length "pattern".
  • bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
  • black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blandisher — someone who blandishes
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • blindstory — a windowless story
  • 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.
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