10-letter words containing a, b, s, e, n
- sandbender — [IBM] A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of integrated circuits. Compare ironmonger, polygon pusher.
- saxon blue — a dye made by dissolving indigo in a solution of sulphuric acid
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- seasonable — suitable to or characteristic of the season: seasonable weather.
- 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
- shabbiness — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- 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 bean — any of various kinds of bean of which the unripe seeds are removed from the pods before cooking.
- sieva bean — butter bean.
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- slabbiness — the state or condition of being slabby
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- sperm bank — a repository for storing sperm and keeping it viable under scientifically controlled conditions prior to its use in artificial insemination.
- sponge bag — a small, usually waterproof, case for carrying toilet articles.
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- stableness — not likely to fall or give way, as a structure, support, foundation, etc.; firm; steady.
- state bank — a bank chartered by a state and operated under the banking laws of that state.
- 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.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- 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
- 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.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcentral — near or almost to the center.
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
- submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
- submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
- subnascent — growing underneath
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.
- suboceanic — occurring or existing below the floor of the ocean: suboceanic oil.
- subpoenaed — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.