10-letter words containing a, b, e, s
- sarera bay — a large bay on the NW coast of New Guinea, in Irian Jaya, in Indonesia.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- saxon blue — a dye made by dissolving indigo in a solution of sulphuric acid
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale-back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- schaerbeek — a city in central Belgium, near Brussels.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- scrollable — able to be scrolled
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- sea battle — a battle fought at sea, using ships and boats
- sea breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.
- sea robber — a pirate.
- sea-breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seal beach — a town in S California.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- searchable — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- seasonable — suitable to or characteristic of the season: seasonable weather.
- sebastopol — Sevastopol.
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- segregable — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- selectable — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- self-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
- self-belay — a method of preventing oneself from falling by using a controlled rope
- self-blame — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- semblative — resembling
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- senegambia — a region in W Africa between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, now mostly in Senegal.
- sensibilia — those things which can be sensed
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- shabbiness — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shark bell — a bell sounded to warn swimmers of the presence of sharks
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- shebagging — the practice by a female passenger on public transport of placing a bag on the seat beside her, so denying it to another passenger
- shell back — an underside of a spoon bowl ornamented with a shell motif.
- shell bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).