10-letter words containing r, e, a, i, s
- 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.
- 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)
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birthrates — birthrate
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- brassiness — made of or covered with brass.
- brattiness — the quality of being bratty
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- cafeterias — Plural form of cafeteria.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- cannisters — Plural form of cannister.
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- carabiners — Plural form of carabiner.
- caramelise — (cooking) To convert sugar into caramel.
- carbineers — Plural form of carbineer.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).