10-letter words containing a, b, e, s
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- stale bull — a dealer or speculator who holds unsold commodities after a rise in market prices but who cannot trade because there are no buyers at the new levels and because his financial commitments prevent him from making further purchases
- state bank — a bank chartered by a state and operated under the banking laws of that state.
- state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- statutable — (of an offense) recognized by statute; legally punishable.
- steam bath — a bath of steam, usually in a specially equipped room or enclosure, for cleansing or refreshing oneself.
- steam beer — a naturally carbonated, malt-flavored beer brewed especially in the western U.S.
- steel band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stone bass — wreckfish.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sub-clause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- sub-leader — a person or thing that leads.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subacetate — a basic salt of acetic acid.
- subacutely — in a subacute manner
- subaqueous — existing or situated under water; underwater.
- subarcuate — fairly arched
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subaudible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcaliber — noting or pertaining to ammunition of smaller caliber than the gun in which it is used.
- subcalibre — (of a projectile) having a calibre less than that of the firearm from which it is discharged and therefore either fitted with a disc or fired through a tube inserted into the barrel
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subcarrier — a carrier wave used to modify or modulate another carrier wave.
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- sublattice — a set of elements of a lattice, in which each subset of two elements has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound contained in the given set.
- sublimable — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.