10-letter words containing ri
- ballerinas — Plural form of ballerina.
- banderilla — a decorated barbed dart, thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder
- barbarians — Plural form of barbarian.
- barbarious — (dated, before 20th century, now literary) barbarous, barbaric.
- barbarisms — Plural form of barbarism.
- barbarized — Simple past tense and past participle of barbarize.
- barberries — Plural form of barberry.
- barbituric — of or derived from barbituric acid
- bariatrics — the study of obesity and its treatment
- barium 140 — the radioactive isotope of barium having a mass number of 140 and a half-life of 12.8 days, used chiefly as a tracer.
- barometric — Barometric pressure is the atmospheric pressure that is shown by a barometer.
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- barristers — Plural form of barrister.
- base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
- bath brick — a brick-shaped piece of calcareous earth, used for cleaning polished metal
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- bayberries — Plural form of bayberry.
- be friends — to be friendly (with)
- beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
- bear river — a river in NE Utah, SW Wyoming, and SE Idaho, flowing into the Great Salt Lake. 350 miles (565 km) long.
- bedsprings — Plural form of bedspring.
- befriended — to make friends or become friendly with; act as a friend to; help; aid: to befriend the poor and the weak.
- befriender — a person who befriends
- 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
- belt drive — a transmission system using a flexible belt to transfer power
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- benzedrine — amphetamine
- beribboned — adorned with ribbons
- 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)
- bescribble — to cover with scribbles
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- big spring — a city in W Texas.
- bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipinnaria — a free-swimming starfish larva
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bipolarize — to make bipolar