10-letter words containing b, e, l, i, s
- sb's likes — someone's favourable feelings, desires, preferences, etc
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- self-build — the practice of building one's own home
- semblative — resembling
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- sensibilia — those things which can be sensed
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sheathbill — either of two white sea birds, Chionis alba or C. minor, of the colder parts of the Southern Hemisphere: so called from the horny sheath covering the base of the upper bill.
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- 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.
- side table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- side-table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- silverbill — a species of finch of the genus Munia
- single bed — bed for one person
- sinkerball — sinker (def 5).
- slab-sided — having the sides long and flat, like slabs.
- slabbiness — the state or condition of being slabby
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
- social bee — any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.
- soil-based — having soil as the main constituent
- solubilize — to make soluble, or to increase solubility.
- spitballer — a pitcher who is known or believed to throw spitballs.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- splittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- stabilised — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- stablished — establish.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subaudible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- 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
- subceiling — a ceiling placed on a subdivision of a category; a sublimit
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- 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.