10-letter words containing r, e, n, a
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- averseness — The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
- avertiment — an advertisement
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- azerbaijan — a republic in NW Asia: the region was acquired by Russia from Persia in the early 19th century; became the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936 and gained independence in 1991; consists of dry subtropical steppes around the Aras and Kura rivers, surrounded by the Caucasus; contains the extensive Baku oilfields. Language: Azerbaijani (or Azeri). Religion: Shiite Muslim. Currency: manat. Capital: Baku. Pop: 9 590 159 (2013 est). Area: 86 600 sq km (33 430 sq miles)
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- bain-marie — a vessel for holding hot water, in which sauces and other dishes are gently cooked or kept warm
- bainbridge — Beryl.1934–2010, British novelist and playwright. Novels include The Dressmaker (1973), Injury Time (1977), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001)
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- band brake — a brake using a brake band.
- banderilla — a decorated barbed dart, thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder
- banderoles — Plural form of banderole.
- bandleader — A bandleader is the person who conducts a band, especially a jazz band.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- bandoleers — Plural form of bandoleer.
- bandoleros — Plural form of bandolero.
- 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.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- bank paper — bank notes collectively
- bankrolled — money in one's possession; monetary resources.
- bankroller — the person or organization that provides the finance for a project, business, etc
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bannerette — a small banner
- bannisters — a baluster.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- bantu beer — a malted drink made from partly fermented and germinated millet
- bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bare bones — The bare bones of something are its most basic parts or details.
- bare owner — a person who has bare ownership of a property
- barehanded — without weapons, tools, etc
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
- barkantine — a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft-rigged on the other masts.
- barkentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- barnburner — something, esp. a closely contested sports event, that is very exciting, intense, dramatic, etc.
- barneveldt — ˈJan van Olden (ˌjɑnˈvɑn ɔldən ) ; yänˌvän ôlˈdən) 1547-1619; Du. statesman & patriot
- barnstable — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- baronesses — Plural form of baroness.