9-letter words containing i, s, r
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- averroism — the teachings of Averroës
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- awestrike — to inspire great awe in
- axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- babirusas — Plural form of babirusa.
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- balikesir — city in NW Asiatic Turkey: pop. 173,000
- ballister — (obsolete) A crossbow.
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
- bar joist — a welded steel joist having an open web consisting of a single bent bar running in a zigzag pattern between horizontal upper and lower chords.
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
- barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barotitis — inflammation of the ear caused by a change in air pressure
- barrister — In England and Wales, a barrister is a lawyer who represents clients in the higher courts of law. Compare solicitor.
- bartizans — Plural form of bartizan.
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- bassarisk — any carnivorous mammal of the genus Bassariscus, comprising the cacomistles and ringtails.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- baybars i — 1223–77, sultan of Egypt and Syria (1260–77), of the Mameluke dynasty
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- beastlier — Comparative form of beastly.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- beriosova — Svetlana (svɪtˈlanə). 1932–98, British ballet dancer, born in Lithuania
- berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)