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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.
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