11-letter words containing s, e, r, i, a
- azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
- azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
- baneberries — Plural form of baneberry.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- banjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
- baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
- barbarities — Plural form of barbarity.
- baresthesia — the sense or perception of pressure.
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
- basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
- baskerville — a style of type
- bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
- bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
- bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
- bearberries — Plural form of bearberry.
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.