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11-letter words containing i, s, r

  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • baserunning — the act of running around bases
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • bearberries — Plural form of bearberry.
  • bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
  • beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
  • beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
  • bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
  • behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
  • belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
  • belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
  • bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
  • binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
  • biomorphism — a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan: The paintings of Joan Miró are often notable for their playful, bright-colored biomorphs.
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • bird spider — any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America
  • bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bird's nest — the nest of a bird
  • bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
  • bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
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