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10-letter words containing b, e, c, a, r

  • press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
  • procurable — obtainable.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
  • rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
  • re-embrace — to embrace again
  • recallable — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
  • receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
  • reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
  • recordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
  • recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
  • recyclable — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
  • reichsbank — the former German national bank.
  • rejectable — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
  • reprobance — reprobation.
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • resectable — able to be resected
  • 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.
  • rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
  • rock brake — any of various ferns of the genera Pellaea and Cryptogramma, which grow on rocky ground and have sori at the ends of the veins
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
  • sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
  • scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sickle bar — cutter bar (def 1).
  • silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
  • spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
  • 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.
  • subarcuate — fairly arched
  • subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
  • 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
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