10-letter words containing s, a, b, r
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
- 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)
- bes antler — bay antler.
- 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)
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- beta brass — an alloy consisting of nearly equal proportions of copper and zinc.
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- 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.
- bipartisan — Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups.
- bird grass — rough bluegrass
- 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.
- black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- braaivleis — a picnic at which meat is cooked over an open fire; a barbecue
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet