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10-letter words containing s, n, r, b

  • baseperson — (baseball, softball) A fielder (of either gender) positioned near a base.
  • baserunner — a baseball player in the act of running around bases
  • batterings — Plural form of battering.
  • be friends — to be friendly (with)
  • bedsprings — Plural form of bedspring.
  • bellperson — a bellhop.
  • benefiters — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
  • bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
  • 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)
  • berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
  • bernstorff — Count Johann-Heinrich [yoh-hahn-hahyn-rikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑnˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, German diplomat.
  • bes antler — bay antler.
  • bescreened — screen (def 17).
  • besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
  • betterness — the quality of being superior
  • big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
  • big spring — a city in W Texas.
  • 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.
  • birth sign — the sign of the zodiac through which the sun is passing when a person is born
  • 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
  • bit string — (programming, data)   An ordered sequence of bits. This is very similar to a bit pattern except that the term "string" suggests an arbitrary length sequence as opposed to a pre-determined length "pattern".
  • bitterness — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
  • blandisher — someone who blandishes
  • blindstory — a windowless story
  • blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
  • blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
  • blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
  • blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
  • bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
  • bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
  • boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bonesetter — a person who sets broken or dislocated bones, esp one who has no formal medical qualifications
  • boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • 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.
  • boringness — the quality of being boring
  • borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
  • bosun bird — tropic bird.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
  • box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
  • brahmanism — the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism, characterized by diversified pantheism, the caste system, and the sacrifices and family ceremonies of Hindu tradition
  • brahminism — Brahmanism
  • brain scan — an examination of the brain, using radiological scanning techniques, used in medical diagnosis and scientific research
  • brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
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