10-letter words containing b, g, s
- obbligatos — Plural form of obbligato.
- obesogenic — Tending to cause obesity.
- objurgates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objurgate.
- obligators — Plural form of obligator.
- oblongatas — Plural form of oblongata.
- oblongness — The quality of being oblong in shape.
- obsoleting — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- ogg vorbis — (audio, compression) A patent-free audio compression algorithm.
- pastry bag — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- regensburg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany, on the Danube: battle 1809.
- resembling — to be like or similar to.
- resubmerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
- sage derby — a green-and-white Derby cheese flavoured with sage
- sandbagged — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- sandbagger — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- 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.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- segregable — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- senegambia — a region in W Africa between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, now mostly in Senegal.
- sewing bee — a small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- 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
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- signal box — a railway signal tower.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- single bed — bed for one person
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- 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.
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- snow buggy — a vehicle designed for travelling over snow, often fitted with very large tyres or caterpillar tracks
- snowtubing — the sport of moving across snow on a large inflated inner tube
- snubbingly — in a snubbing manner