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10-letter words containing b, o, c, s

  • prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
  • probiotics — a therapeutic treatment involving the ingestion of harmless bacteria
  • proscribed — condemned or prohibited
  • psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
  • qt-objects — A library by Michael Travers <[email protected]> and others providing an interface between MCL and QuickTime.
  • quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
  • rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
  • reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
  • roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
  • rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
  • sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
  • scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
  • 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
  • school bus — a vehicle used to transport students to and from school or used for other related purposes.
  • schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
  • scooby doo — a clue
  • 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.
  • scottsboro — a town in NE Alabama.
  • scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
  • scroll bar — computers;
  • scrollable — able to be scrolled
  • scrub fowl — megapode.
  • scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
  • seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
  • shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
  • 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.
  • sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
  • sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
  • snobocracy — a social class of snobs
  • 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.
  • sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
  • spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
  • spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
  • stock book — a permanent record of the capital stock of a corporation, listing the names and addresses of the stockholders, the number of the shares owned, the serial numbers of their stock certificates, etc.
  • stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
  • 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.
  • sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
  • subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
  • subcollege — a department of a college which provides classes below college level
  • subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
  • subcompany — subsidiary company.
  • subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • subcordate — almost heart-shaped
  • subduction — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • subeconomy — an economy within another economy
  • subfuscous — slightly dark, dusky, or somber.
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