10-letter words containing s, i, t, e
- bast fiber — bast (def 2).
- bast-fiber — Botany. phloem.
- bastardise — to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
- bastardize — to debase; corrupt
- bastnasite — (mineral) A light brown mineral that is a source of many rare earth elements.
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- battlesuit — (science fiction) A technologically enhanced suit worn in battle for protection, camouflage, etc.
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
- beatitudes — supreme blessedness; exalted happiness.
- beautifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beautify.
- beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- bed-sitter — a combination bedroom and sitting room.
- bedsitting — as in bedsitting room
- beetmister — a help in need
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
- beltsville — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- benefiters — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- bestiality — Bestiality is disgusting behaviour.
- bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
- big sister — an elder sister.
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- binet test — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children
- biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- bipetalous — having two petals
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birthrates — birthrate
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
- bissextile — (of a month or year) containing the extra day of a leap year
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- bitchiness — characteristic of a bitch; spiteful; malicious.
- bite-sized — Bite-sized pieces of food are small enough to fit easily in your mouth.
- bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- blind test — a test in which the participants cannot identify the products that they are testing
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.