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10-letter words containing s, r, b

  • beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • beetmaster — a help in need
  • beetmister — a help in need
  • behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
  • bel esprit — a witty or clever person
  • bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
  • belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
  • belletrist — a writer of belles-lettres
  • bellperson — a bellhop.
  • belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
  • belshazzar — 6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar's Feast)
  • beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • 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.
  • bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • 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)
  • berkshires — Also called Berks [burks; British bahrks] /bɜrks; British bɑrks/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 485 sq. mi. (1255 sq. km).
  • 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).
  • bescribble — to cover with scribbles
  • besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
  • bessarabia — a region in E Europe, mostly in Moldova and Ukraine: long disputed by the Turks and Russians; a province of Romania from 1918 until 1940. Area: about 44 300 sq km (17 100 sq miles)
  • bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • bestseller — A bestseller is a book of which a great number of copies has been sold.
  • beta brass — an alloy consisting of nearly equal proportions of copper and zinc.
  • betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • bettermost — best
  • betterness — the quality of being superior
  • bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
  • bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
  • big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
  • big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
  • big sister — an elder sister.
  • big spring — a city in W Texas.
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • 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.
  • biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
  • biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
  • bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
  • bioreserve — an area preserving wildlife, landforms, and waterways while providing appropriate public use and enjoyment of a natural environment.
  • biospheric — relating to the biosphere
  • biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
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