10-letter words containing b, c, i
- receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
- receptible — adapted to or suitable for reception.
- redescribe — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- reinscribe — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- rice blast — a disease of rice caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryae, characterized by elliptical leaf spots with reddish-brown margins, brownish lesions and neck rot of the fruiting panicles, and stunting of the plant.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- riebeckite — an amphibolic mineral, silicate of sodium and iron, occurring usually in feldspathoid rocks.
- rio branco — a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
- roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
- rock climb — an instance of rock climbing or the route followed
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rubber ice — Canadian. thin ice that shifts, cracks, or groans when crossed on foot.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- sabbatical — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scribbling — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrub bird — either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- scrub suit — a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.
- scrub-bird — either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
- sicklebill — any of various birds having a long, curved bill, as the long-billed curlew or curve-billed thrasher.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.
- spiceberry — a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
- springbuck — springbok.
- squib kick — a kickoff that is purposely low so it will wobble and bounce along the ground, making it hard to field and return.
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
- stickybeak — a busybody; meddler.
- strabismic — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strip club — strip joint.
- sub judice — before a judge or court; awaiting judicial determination.
- subaquatic — living or growing partly on land, partly in water.
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article