10-letter words containing s, c, a, r
- atrocity's — the quality or state of being atrocious.
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- attractors — Plural form of attractor.
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- autarchist — of or relating to autarchism
- avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
- aviatrices — Plural form of aviatrix.
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to and equidistant from the foot score and the sweeping score.
- 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.
- backboards — Plural form of backboard.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backswords — Plural form of backsword.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwasher — (textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- barcaroles — Plural form of barcarole.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bariatrics — the study of obesity and its treatment
- baroscopic — Relating to, or determined by, the baroscope.
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
- basic rate — the standard or lowest level on a scale of money payable, esp in taxation
- beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- 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.
- 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
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.