10-letter words containing s, a, b, t
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- bagatelles — Plural form of bagatelle.
- bakersheet — dripping pan.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.
- ballistite — a smokeless rocket propellant composed of roughly equal proportions of the explosives nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine
- balloonist — A balloonist is a person who flies a hot-air balloon.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- banalities — the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- bandstands — Plural form of bandstand.
- bandwidths — Plural form of bandwidth.
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- banistered — Simple past tense and past participle of banister.
- bannisters — a baluster.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- banquettes — Plural form of banquette.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- bantustans — Plural form of bantustan.
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
- bariatrics — the study of obesity and its treatment
- 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)
- barometers — Plural form of barometer.
- baronetess — the wife of a baronet
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.